2025 PGA Championship

This is the second PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, which previously hosted in 2017. The course hosts the Truist Championship (formerly the Wells Fargo Championship) on the PGA Tour (2003–present), though not in 2017 (it was held in Wilmington at the Eagle Point Golf Club) and 2025 (it was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club). In 2016, it played as a par-72 at . It was also the home of the tour's Kemper Open (1969–1979) and the Champions Tour PaineWebber World Seniors Invitational in the 1980s. ==Field==

Criteria This list details the qualification criteria for the 2025 PGA Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified are indicated in parentheses. 1. All past winners of the PGA Championship • Keegan Bradley (10,12) • Jason Day (10) • Jason Dufner • Pádraig Harrington • Martin Kaymer • Brooks Koepka • Rory McIlroy (2,5,8,10,11,12) • Shaun Micheel • Phil Mickelson • Collin Morikawa (4,8,10,11) • Xander Schauffele (4,10,11,12) • Justin Thomas (10,11,12) • Jimmy Walker • Paul Azinger, Rich Beem, Mark Brooks, John Daly, Steve Elkington, Raymond Floyd, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Davis Love III, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Vijay Singh, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, David Toms, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins, Tiger Woods, and Yang Yong-eun did not play. 2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2021–2025) • Hideki Matsuyama (10,12) • Jon Rahm (3,11) • Scottie Scheffler (5,8,10,11,12) 3. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2020–2024) • Wyndham Clark (10,11) • Bryson DeChambeau (8,10,12) • Matt Fitzpatrick (11) 4. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2019–2024) • Brian Harman (10,11,12) • Shane Lowry (8,10,11) • Cameron Smith 5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2023–2025) 6. The top three on the Official World Golf Ranking's International Federation Ranking List as of April 28, 2025 • John Catlin • Takumi Kanaya • Daniel van Tonder 7. Current Senior PGA Champion • Richard Bland 8. The leading 15 players, and those tying for 15th place, in the 2024 PGA Championship • Dean Burmester • Thomas Detry (10,12) • Lee Hodges • Viktor Hovland (10,11,12) • Robert MacIntyre (10,11,12) • Taylor Moore • Alex Norén • Justin Rose (10,11) • Billy Horschel (10) and Sahith Theegala (10) did not play. 9. The leading 20 players in the 2025 PGA Professional Championship • Brian Bergstol • Brandon Bingaman • Michael Block • Andre Chi • Tyler Collet • Jesse Droemer • Bobby Gates • Larkin Gross • Justin Hicks • Nic Ishee • Tom Johnson • Michael Kartrude • Greg Koch • Ryan Lenahan • Dylan Newman • John Somers • Bob Sowards • Eric Steger • Rupe Taylor • Timothy Wiseman 10. Top 70 players who are eligible and have earned the most PGA Championship Points from the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson through the 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson • Ludvig Åberg (11,12) • An Byeong-hun • Daniel Berger • Christiaan Bezuidenhout • Akshay Bhatia • Jacob Bridgeman • Sam Burns (11) • Patrick Cantlay (11) • Bud Cauley • Eric Cole • Corey Conners • Cameron Davis (12) • Nick Dunlap (12) • Nico Echavarría (12) • Austin Eckroat (12) • Harris English (12) • Tony Finau • Tommy Fleetwood (11) • Lucas Glover • Max Greyserman • Ben Griffin (12) • Adam Hadwin • Harry Hall (12) • Russell Henley (12) • Joe Highsmith (12) • Tom Hoge • Mackenzie Hughes • Im Sung-jae • Stephan Jäger • Michael Kim • Kim Si-woo • Tom Kim • Min Woo Lee (12) • Denny McCarthy • Matt McCarty (12) • Maverick McNealy (12) • Andrew Novak (12) • Taylor Pendrith • J. T. Poston (12) • Séamus Power • Aaron Rai (12) • Davis Riley (12) • Patrick Rodgers • Adam Scott • J. J. Spaun • Jordan Spieth (11) • Sam Stevens • Sepp Straka (11,12) • Nick Taylor (12) • Davis Thompson (12) • Jhonattan Vegas (12) • Kevin Yu (12) 11. Playing members of the 2023 Ryder Cup teams, who are ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 5, 2025 • Tyrrell Hatton • Max Homa • Nicolai Højgaard 12. Winners of official tournaments on the PGA Tour from the 2024 PGA Championship until the start of the championship • Brian Campbell • Rafael Campos • Ryan Fox • Garrick Higgo • Patton Kizzire • Karl Vilips 13. Top 3 finishers on the DP World Tour Asian Swing event rankings • Eugenio Chacarra • Keita Nakajima • Marco Penge 14. PGA of America invitees • Laurie Canter • Luke Donald • Rickie Fowler • Sergio García • Ryan Gerard • Ryo Hisatsune • Rasmus Højgaard • Beau Hossler • Dustin Johnson • Johnny Keefer • Chris Kirk • Kurt Kitayama • Jake Knapp • Thriston Lawrence • Justin Lower • Max McGreevy • Tom McKibbin • Keith Mitchell • Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen • Joaquín Niemann • Niklas Nørgaard • Thorbjørn Olesen • John Parry • Matthieu Pavon • David Puig • Patrick Reed • Elvis Smylie • Sami Välimäki • Erik van Rooyen • Matt Wallace • Gary Woodland • Cameron Young • Will Zalatoris • Shaun Norris was invited but did not play. 15. If necessary, the field is completed by players in order of PGA Championship points earned (per 10) • Patrick Fishburn (71st) • Rico Hoey (74th) • Michael Thorbjornsen (82nd) • Victor Perez (83rd) • Alex Smalley (87th) ==Round summaries==

First round Thursday, May 15, 2025 Jhonattan Vegas shot a 7-under-par 64 to lead by two strokes after the first round. Vegas also set the first time any player has led any round of a major from Venezuela. Defending champion Xander Schauffele shot 1-over-par 72. 47-year-old former world number one Luke Donald shot a bogey-free 67, the only player not to make a bogey during the first round. Donald was ranked 871st in the Official World Golf Ranking prior to the 2025 PGA Championship and had missed the cut in all of his starts during 2025. Source: Max Homa and Kim Si-Woo shot the lowest rounds of the day with a 64. Notable players to miss the cut included Jordan Spieth, 2017 champion Justin Thomas, two-time champion Phil Mickelson, and the winner at the Truist Championship the week before Sepp Straka. Source: Prior to the PGA Championship, Norén had played only one tournament in 2025 due to tearing a hamstring tendon in January. In 39 previous major starts, his best finish was a tie for sixth at the 2017 Open Championship. Two-time major champion and 2024 PGA Championship runner-up Bryson DeChambeau held the outright lead after 15 holes, but dropped three shots in the closing stretch, including hitting his tee shot into the water on 17, to fall back to 5-under-par. Source: Final leaderboard Source: Scorecard Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par : ==Notes==