Rory McIlroy

• 2025 Masters Tournament champion and World No. 2 is a four-time winner at Quail Hollow Club, winning the Truist Championship in 2010, 2015, 2021 and 2024
• With his win at the Masters Tournament, became the sixth player to complete the Career Grand Slam
• Last player to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year (Jack Nicklaus/1975)
• Last to win consecutive majors: Jordan Spieth (2015 Masters Tournament, 2015 U.S. Open)
• With wins at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, THE PLAYERS Championship and Masters Tournament, is one of two multiple winners this season (Sepp Straka)
• Fifth PGA TOUR season with three or more victories (2012/4, 2014/3, 2019/3, 2022/3)
• Eight top-10 finishes in 16 starts at the PGA Championships (wins: 2012, 2014)
• Finished T22 at the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club

 Xander Schauffele

• World No. 3 seeking to become the first player to successfully defend at the event since Brooks Koepka (2019)
• At 21-under, won the 2024 PGA Championship by one stroke over Bryson DeChambeau; marked the lowest score in relation to par in major championship history
• Has 12 consecutive top-20 finishes in major championships, dating to a T13 at the 2022 PGA Championship
• Nine-time PGA TOUR winner seeks his first victory on TOUR since the 2024 Open Championship
• Making his ninth start at the PGA Championship, with top-10 finishes in 2020 (T10) and 2024 (1^st)
• Made his PGA Championship debut in 2017 at Quail Hollow Club where he missed the cut with rounds of 74-81
• Has four consecutive top-20 finishes on TOUR (Valspar Championship/T12, Masters Tournament/T8, RBC Heritage/T18, Truist Championship/T11)
• One top-10 in seven starts this season (T8/Masters Tournament)

Scottie Scheffler

• World No. 1 and reigning FedExCup champion in search of second victory of the season (THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson)
• Tied the lowest 72-hole score in PGA TOUR history with his 253 total at TPC Craig Ranch en route to a wire-to-wire victory by eight strokes, the largest margin of victory on TOUR this season
• In nine starts this season, has six top-10s (T9/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, T3/The Genesis Invitational, T2/Texas Children’s Houston Open, 4^th/Masters Tournament, T8/RBC Heritage, 1^st/THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson)
• 14-time PGA TOUR winner seeks third major championship victory (2022, 2024 Masters Tournament)
• Four top-10 finishes in five starts at the PGA Championship (T4/2020, T8/2021, MC/2022, T2/2023, T8/2024)

Jordan Spieth

• 13-time PGA TOUR winner seeking to become the seventh player to win the Career Grand Slam
• Three major championship wins in 48 starts: 2015 Masters Tournament, 2015 U.S. Open, 2017 Open Championship
• 12^th start of the season, with three top 10-finishes (T4/WM Phoenix Open, T9/Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, 4^th/THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson); playing in the final year of his Tournament Winners exemption
• Two top-10 finishes in 12 starts at the PGA Championship (2^nd/2015, T3/2019)
• Finished T28 at the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club

Sepp Straka

• Captured his fourth PGA TOUR title last week at the Truist Championship
• Last player to win a major championship the week after winning on TOUR: Rory McIlroy (2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, 2014 PGA Championship)
• The American Express and Truist Championship winner joins Rory McIlroy as the season’s only multiple winners
• 16^th start in a major championship, with a T2 at the 2023 Open Championship his best outing
• Finished T7 in 2023 for his best finish among four PGA Championship starts
• Moved to No. 9 in the Official World Golf Ranking with his victory at the Truist Championship, joining the top 10 for the first time in his career

Justin Thomas

• Two-time PGA Championship winner (2017, 2022) won in 2017 at Quail Hollow Club by two strokes over Francesco Molinari, Patrick Reed and Louis Oosthuizen
• World No. 5 has six top-10s in 11 starts this season, including his victory at the RBC Heritage and three runner-up results (The American Express, Valspar Championship, Truist Championship), the most of any player on TOUR this season
• 16-time PGA TOUR winner seeks third major championship victory (2017, 2022 PGA Championship)
• Will be making his 10^th start at the event, with four top-10 finishes (1^st/2017, T6/2018, 1^st/2022, T8/2024)

PGA Championship notes:

• Second major championship of the season (Rory McIlroy/Masters Tournament)
• Quail Hollow Club will host the PGA Championship for the second time (2017; won by Justin Thomas)
• Field headlined by 49 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (Billy Horschel), headlined by World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, No. 2 Rory McIlroy, No. 3 Xander Schauffele, No. 4 Collin Morikawa and No. 5 Justin Thomas
• Adam Scott is scheduled to make his 95^th consecutive major championship appearance, dating to the 2001 Open Championship; only Jack Nicklaus (146) has played in more than 100 straight majors
• Additional field features:

• • All 69 players who played at last week’s Truist Championship, including champion Sepp Straka
  • Champion Ryan Fox was one of seven players in the field who finished inside the top 10 at last week’s ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic; the others: Mackenzie Hughes (P2), Kevin Yu (4^th), Niklas Norgaard (T5), Rico Hoey (T7), Sami Valimaki (T7), Thorbjørn Olesen (T7)
  • Four players in the field finished inside the top five at the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club: Justin Thomas (1^st), Patrick Reed (T2), Rickie Fowler (T5), Hideki Matsuyama (T5)
  • In the seven editions of the Truist Championship played at Quail Hollow Club since 2015, seven players in the field posted two or more top-five finishes: Jason Day (1^st/2018, T4/2024), Rickie Fowler (T4/2016, T4/2019), Rory McIlroy (1^st/2015, T4/2016, 1^st/2021, 1^st/2024), Phil Mickelson (T4/2015, T4/2016, T5/2018), Justin Rose (3^rd/2016, 3^rd/2019), Xander Schauffele (2^nd/2023, 2^nd/2024), Gary Woodland (T4/2015, 5^th/2021)
  • 13 past champions (18 wins): Keegan Bradley (2011), Jason Day (2015), Jason Dufner (2013), Pádraig Harrington (2008), Martin Kaymer (2010), Brooks Koepka (2018, 2019, 2023), Rory McIlroy (2012, 2014), Shaun Micheel (2003), Phil Mickelson (2005, 2021), Collin Morikawa (2020), Xander Schauffele (2024), Justin Thomas (2017, 2022), Jimmy Walker (2016)

• • Eight past FedExCup champions (10 wins): Jordan Spieth (2015), Rory McIlroy (2016, 2019, 2022), Justin Thomas (2017), Justin Rose (2018), Dustin Johnson (2020), Patrick Cantlay (2021), Viktor Hovland (2023), Scottie Scheffler (2024)

• • Special exemptions: Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson

PGA TOUR season notes

• Eight first-time winners in 2025: Thomas Detry (WM Phoenix Open), Brian Campbell (Mexico Open at VidantaWorld), Joe Highsmith (Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches), Karl Vilips (Puerto Rico Open), Min Woo Lee (Texas Children’s Houston Open), Ben Griffin/Andrew Novak (Zurich Classic of New Orleans), Ryan Fox (ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic)
• International players have won 14 of the first 22 events this season: Hideki Matsuyama/Japan, Nick Taylor/Canada, Sepp Straka/Austria/2, Rory McIlroy/Northern Ireland/3, Thomas Detry/Belgium, Ludvig Åberg/Sweden, Karl Vilips/Australia, Viktor Hovland/Norway, Min Woo Lee/Australia, Garrick Higgo/South Africa, Ryan Fox/New Zealand