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Scottie Scheffler confirmed his place as the world’s #1 golfer with an emphatic victory in this year’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. His five-stroke win in the PGA is the largest since Rory McIlroy won by eight in 2012.
It becomes Scheffler’s third major championship title in just his 23rd start (2022, 2024 Masters Tournament; 2025 PGA Championship). Quickly establishing himself as a great of the game, Scheffler becomes the 48th player with three or more major championships and just the 15th player to win the Masters Tournament and PGA Championship during career (most recent: Rory McIlroy).
He improves to 3-for-3 with the 54-hole lead at a major and becomes the first player to win first three major championships by three or more strokes since Seve Ballesteros in 1983.
The 28 year old now has 15 Tour wins in 140 starts, moving to #1 in the FedExCup standings. He joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players during the modern era to win 15 times on the PGA TOUR, including three majors, before the age of 29.
Just Two players have finished inside the top 10 at each of the first two majors this year - Scottie Scheffler (4th/Masters Tournament, 1st/PGA Championship) and Bryson DeChambeau (T5/Masters Tournament, T2/PGA Championship)
One week before his title defence at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Davis Riley finishes T2 for his best finish in eight major championship starts (previous: T13/2022 PGA Championship).
Harris English finishes T2 for his best finish in 33 major starts (previous-best: 3rd/2021 U.S. Open).
2022 and 2024 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau (T2) becomes the first player to finish runner-up in back-to-back PGA Championships since Dustin Johnson in 2020.
Jhonattan Vegas finishes T5 in bid to become the seventh player to carry the outright lead after the first and second rounds of a PGA Championship to victory.
Defending champion Xander Schauffele finishes T28, snapping a streak of 12 consecutive top-20 finishes in major championships; Brooks Koepka (2019) is the last player to successfully defend at the event
2025 Masters Tournament champion Rory McIlroy finishes T47 in bid to become the first player to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year since Jack Nicklaus (1975).
The best placed Aussies were Adam Scott and Cam Davis, both sharing T19 (-2). Davis was T2 after the first day with a fine -5 but struggled in the second round to drop back down the leaderboard after a disappointing 74. Scotty just keeps on keeping on for another good result in a major.
The only other Australian to make the cut was rookie Elvis Smylie. He finished well back in T72 at +10, however it’s a great start for a promising career ahead.
Min Woo Lee (+4), Jason Day (+6), Cameron Smith (+7) and Karl Vilips (+11) didn’t make the weekend action.
The next major is the US Open Jun 12-15 at Oakmont CC, PA, followed by the
Open Championship at Royal Portrush, North Ireland July 17-20.