When Quail Hollow Club welcomes the game’s best players for the 2025 PGA Championship, it will be hosting a major championship for only the second time, nearly eight years removed from Justin Thomas’ maiden PGA win. Yet as the site of an annual PGA Tour stop, the Charlotte, N.C., course is familiar to tour pros with its reputation for thick rough, slick greens and a challenging three-hole finish, dubbed “The Green Mile.”
While knowing then what to expect from the course, knowing what scores will be like when the PGA of America sets up the course is another story. Thomas won with an eight-under 276 in 2017, but 17 under and 19 under were the winning totals by Rory McIlroy and Wyndham Clark for the tour stop in 2024 and 2023, respectively. Kerry Haigh, the PGA of America’s chief championship officer who oversees the course setup, might shy away from the super low numbers shot a year ago in the PGA at Valhalla, but “par is your friend” isn’t one of his go-to phrases either.
While what to expect scoring-wise might still be uncertain, who will be competing for the Wanamaker Trophy is starting to come into full relief. Several of the PGA of America’s qualifying criteria have a May 4 date attached to them, locking in a significant portion of the field.
Here’s a look then at everyone in the field so far, according to the criteria laid out in the PGA Championship media guide. Likely to be announced by the PGA of America on May 5 is the additional special invites to get the field closer to the full 156. This traditionally includes anybody in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking not already in the field.
Also, this includes all the past champions who are believed to be competing at Quail Hollow. That list does not include Tiger Woods, who continues to recover from Achilles’ tendon injury/surgery in March.
2025 PGA Championship field
Ludvig Aberg, 10, 11
Byeong Hun An, 10
Rich Beem, 1
Daniel Berger, 10
Brian Bergstol, 9
Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 10
Akshay Bhatia, 10
Brandon Bingaman, 9
Richard Bland, 7
Michael Block, 9
Keegan Bradley, 1, 10, 12
Jacob Bridgeman, 10
Dean Burmester, 8
Sam Burns, 10, 11
Brian Campbell, 12
Rafael Campos, 12
Patrick Cantlay, 10, 11
Bud Cauley, 10
Eugenio Chacarra, 13
Andre Chi, 9
Wyndham Clark, 3, 10, 11
Eric Cole, 10
Tyler Collet, 9
Corey Conners, 10
John Daly, 1
Cam Davis, 10, 12
Jason Day, 1, 10
Bryson DeChambeau, 3, 8, 10, 12
Thomas Detry, 8, 10, 12
Jesse Droemer, 9
Jason Dufner, 1
Nick Dunlap, 10, 12
Nico Echavarria, 10, 12
Austin Eckroat, 10, 12
Harris English, 10, 12
Tony Finau, 10
Matt Fitzpatrick, 3, 11
Tommy Fleetwood, 10, 11
Rickie Fowler, 11
Sergio Garcia, 14
Bobby Gates, 9
Lucas Glover, 10
Max Greyserman, 10
Ben Griffin, 10, 12
Larkin Gross, 9
Adam Hadwin, 10
Harry Hall, 10, 12
Brian Harman, 4, 10, 11, 12
Padraig Harrington, 1
Tyrrell Hatton, 11
Russell Henley, 10, 12
Justin Hicks, 9
Garrick Higgo, 12
Joe Highsmith, 10, 12
Nicolai Højgaard, 11
Lee Hodges, 8
Tom Hoge, 10
Max Homa, 11
Billy Horschel, 8, 10
Viktor Hovland, 8, 10, 11
Mackenzie Hughes, 10
Sungjae Im, 10
Nic Ishee, 9
Stephan Jaeger, 10
Tom Johnson, 9
Michael Kartrude, 9
Martin Kaymer, 1
Michael Kim, 10
Si Woo Kim, 10
Tom Kim, 10
Patton Kizzire, 12
Greg Koch, 9
Brooks Koepka, 1, 11
Min Woo Lee, 10, 12
Ryan Lenahan, 9
Shane Lowry, 4, 8, 10, 11
Robert MacIntyre, 8, 10, 11, 12
Hideki Matsuyama, 2, 10, 12
Denny McCarthy, 10
Matt McCarty, 10, 12
Rory McIlroy, 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11
Maverick McNealy, 10, 12
Shaun Micheel, 1
Phil Mickelson, 1
Taylor Moore, 8
Collin Morikawa, 1, 4, 8, 10, 11
Keita Nakajima, 13
Dylan Newman, 9
Joaquin Niemann, 14
Alex Noren, 8
Andrew Novak, 10, 12
Taylor Pendrith, 10
Marco Penge, 13
J.T. Poston, 10, 12
Seamus Power, 10
Jon Rahm, 2, 3, 11
Aaron Rai, 10, 12
Davis Riley, 10, 12
Patrick Rodgers, 10
Justin Rose, 8, 10, 11
Xander Schauffele, 1, 4, 8, 10, 11
Scottie Scheffler, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12
Adam Scott, 10
Vijay Singh, 1
Cameron Smith, 4
John Somers, 9
Bob Sowards, 9
J.J. Spaun, 10
Jordan Spieth, 10, 11
Sam Stevens, 10
Eric Steger, 9
Sepp Straka, 10, 11, 12
Nick Taylor, 10, 12
Rupe Taylor, 9
Sahith Theegala, 8, 10
Justin Thomas, 1, 8, 10, 11
Davis Thompson, 10, 12
Jhonattan Vegas, 10, 12
Karl Vilips, 12
Jimmy Walker, 1
Timothy Wiseman, 9
Y.E. Yang, 1
Kevin Yu, 10, 12
Qualifying criteria for the 2025 PGA Championship
According to the PGA of America, which conducts the PGA Championship, there are 15 ways to qualify:
1: Past champions of the PGA Championship
2: Winners of the last five Masters
3: Winners of the last five U.S. Opens
4: Winners of the last five Open Championships
5: Winners of the last three Players Championships
6: Top three on the International Federation Official World Golf Ranking
7: Winner of the 2024 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship
8: Top 15 finishers and ties from the 2024 PGA Championship
9: Top 20 finishers from the 2025 PGA Professional Championship
10: Top 70 players who are eligible and have earned the most PGA Championship points from the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge through the 2025 CJ CUP Byron Nelson
11: Playing members of the last-named U.S. and European Ryder Cup teams (2023) provided they remain within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking
12: Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments
13: Top three finishers on the DP World Tour Asian Swing event rankings
14: The PGA of America says it reserves the right to invite additional players, if necessary, to get the field to 156.
15: If necessary to complete the field, those players beyond the top 70 players who are eligible and who have earned the most PGA Championship Points from the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge through the 2025 CJ CUP Byron Nelson (ending May 4, 2025), in order of their position on such list.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
