PGA Championship Predictions: Young to Join Majors Club

Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania stages the second major of 2026 and let’s hope it’s as dramatic as the first.

Last month’s Masters was packed full of drama until Rory McIlroy survived a weekend surge from Scottie Scheffler to hold on for a one-shot victory.

Scheffler is the defending champion this week but will aim to win his second PGA at a course he’s never played competitively.

Aronimink hasn’t staged a major since South African Gary Player won the 1962 PGA Championship there.

The course has hosted three PGA Tour events in modern times though.

Justin Rose won the 2010 AT&T National there before Nick Watney landed that same tournament a year later.

In 2018 Aronimink was the scene of Keegan Bradley’s win in the BMW Championship.

The course is a par 70 measuring a hair under 7,400 yards and requires precision rather than brute force.

Accuracy with tee-shots is important, approach play is key and players will need to be wary of three-putting the undulating greens. 

American golfers have won the last 10 editions of this event while eight of the last 10 winners had already posted a top 10 in the PGA.

Six of the last 10 winners were in their 20s while six had already posted a win earlier in the season.

PGA Championship 2026 Odds

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PGA Championship 2026 Picks and Predictions

• Cameron Young to win at +1200 with BetMGM

• Sam Burns to beat Hideki Matsuyama in 72-hole match at -120 with Caesars

• Russell Henley for Top 10 at +450 with BetMGM

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Course Notes

• The course was designed by Donald Ross in 1928 

• Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner undertook a restoration in 2018

• Gary Player won the only PGA Championship to be held at Aronimink in 1962

• The course is a par 70 measuring 7,394 yards from the tips

• It features fast and undulating bentgrass greens 

• Xander Schauffele holds the 72-hole PGA record (263, Valhalla 2024)

• Schauffele also holds the PGA’s 18-hole record of 62 with Shane Lowry

Favorites to Win the PGA Championship 2026

Scottie Scheffler (+450) at BetMGM

Scheffler cruised to a five-shot win in last year’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow but chose not to return to the scene of that dominant victory when the North Carolina course staged last week’s Truist Championship. It means the last time we saw the World No.1, he was finishing runner-up at the Cadillac Championship, his third straight second place after near misses in the Masters and RBC Heritage. Overall in six PGA Championship starts, Scheffler has a win, a second, a fourth and two eighths.

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Rory McIlroy (+850) at BetMGM

McIlroy has two PGA Championship wins to his name, powering to an eight-shot victory at Kiawah Island in 2012 and a narrow one-shot success at Valhalla in 2014. Beyond that he’s banked six other PGA top 10s, including a pair of top threes. McIlroy is now a six-time major winner after dramatic back-to-back Masters wins. In his first start since last month’s Green Jacket glory, Rory had to settle for 19th in the Truist Championship although a closing 67 will give him some momentum. He also has some Aronimink form after a fifth place there when it staged the 2018 BMW Championship.

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Cameron Young (+800) at BetMGM

Young has had a sensational year so far, tripling his tally of PGA Tour wins from one to three after victories in THE PLAYERS Championship and the Cadillac Championship. Between those wins in May and March he was third at The Masters where he briefly led by two on the final day. He secured a sixth top 10 in seven starts with T10 at last week’s Truist Championship. In the PGA he was third on his 2022 debut, the first of his four top threes in the majors.

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Young to Take Major Opportunity 

Cameron Young looks like a major winner waiting to happen and this week gives him a great opportunity to get it done while he’s in such a rich vein of form.

He’s made the top four in the last two majors held on American soil and should have taken plenty from leading last month’s Masters on Sunday but coming up short.

Put him in the same position again and you’d back Young to get it done.

American players in their 20s have the best record in this event so that puts another tick in the box for the 29-year-old from New York.

He hits it long and straight, ranks 6th for both SG: Off The Tee and Tee To Green while he’s a top 50 putter.

Young, who is also 2nd for Scrambling and 7th for Birdie Average, won the 2025 Wyndham Championship by six shots the last time he teed it up on a Donald Ross course.

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Burns to Beat Matsuyama

After landing our 72-hole match bet by 13 shots a fortnight ago, last week we cruised home by 15 as Rickie Fowler (-13) easily took care of Bob MacIntyre (+2).

This week the bet is Sam Burns to beat Hideki Matsuyama.

Burns has really upped his game in majors, posting three top 10s in the last five held on American soil. That includes T7 at last month’s Masters.

Matsuyama, meanwhile, has managed just one top 10 in a major since the summer of 2022.

In addition, the Japanese golfer has really gone off the boil lately, following 53rd at the Cadillac Championship with 71st (out of 72) at last week’s Truist Championship. 

Burns beat him by 13 shots at the Truist and a closing 64 there should put him in good heart.

Back Burns at -120 with Caesars to win their match-up.

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Henley to Land Top 10

Russell Henley has been a late developer at this level but now the American has five top 10s in his last seven majors.

Aronimink, with its emphasis on precision rather than power, should suit and he has a superb record on Donald Ross designs.

Third at last month’s Masters, Henley can thrive again this week so back him for a top 10 at a juicy +450 with BetMGM.

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How to Watch the PGA Championship 2026

• Tournament: PGA Championship

• Location: Aronimink Golf Club, Newtown Square, PA

• Date: Thursday, May 14 - Sunday, May 17

• How to Watch: Thursday noon-7 p.m. (ESPN), 7-8 p.m. (ESPN2), Friday noon-8 p.m. (ESPN), Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (ESPN), 1-7 p.m. (CBS). And all four days on Sky Sports.