Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2025 PGA Championship

PGA Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

What a time to produce the best putting performance of your career!

We scanned our database all the way back to his 2022 victory at the Cognizant Classic, but we can’t find a better putting show from Sepp Straka than the one he delivered at the Truist Championship.

Unsurprisingly, given the quality of his approach play, it was a recipe for ultimate success in Philadelphia, with Straka outlasting Shane Lowry – whose Sunday woes revealed themselves once more with bogeys at 16 and 18 when well placed – to land his fourth PGA TOUR title.

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Meanwhile, at the Myrtle Beach Classic, Ryan Fox hit a shot he’ll never forget – chipping in from off the green to win a playoff with Mackenzie Hughes and Harry Higgs. That sealed his maiden PGA TOUR triumph.

Fox and Straka will take up their place in a star studded field for the PGA Championship this week, which will unfold at the Quail Hollow Club (the traditional host of the Truist Championship).

As we understand it, the layout will play to a staggering 7,620 yards for its Par 71 this week, which will manifest itself in some long old holes – including a 249-yard Par 3 and a trio of Par 4s in excess of 500 yards. Factor in some rain, if the forecast proves to be correct, and Quail Hollow will once again prove to be a long old slog.

That sort of thing won’t deter the likes of Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau, given their carry length off the tee, while Scottie Scheffler is a player that can win anywhere, any time. And the last time that Quail Hollow hosted the PGA Championship back in 2017, the in-form Justin Thomas prevailed.

So there’s a quartet of potential winners in amongst a high-class field, with 49 of the OWGR top-50 all heading to Charlotte in North Carolina. They will all be hoping to get themselves in a position to win on Sunday, where their fate may well be determined by the infamous ‘Green Mile’.

The sixteenth is one of the longest Par 4s you’ll see on the PGA TOUR, the seventeenth is a Par 3 with an island green, and the eighteenth is an uphill Par 4 at which the players must battle water, sand, thick rough, and a small, undulating green.

With the pressure on to close out a major victory, that trio of holes will hardly help to settle the nerves… don’t be surprised if the lead changes hands late on Sunday.

As ever at the majors, the best in the business have the edge, but bettors can still lend their support to some high-quality operators at odds of 50/1 or longer.

So who makes the grade in our 2025 PGA Championship sleeper shortlist? All will now be revealed… 

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Corey Conners – 60/1 – It’s been interesting to watch Corey Conners’ transformation in 2025, with DataGolf confirming that his short game has gone from weaker than the TOUR average last year to above average this.

The Canadian has clearly been working hard on that department of his game, and with five top-10 finishes this year – and a T11 at the Truist Championship on Sunday – it’s paying off.

Conners finished T6 and T8 at the PLAYERS Championship and The Masters respectively a matter of weeks ago, which shows just how close he is to pulling up a chair at golf’s top table. Perhaps his major breakthrough moment will come this week?

Min Woo Lee – 70/1 – At the very least, it’s likely that length off the tee and an assured touch around the greens will be key this week.

So step forward Min Woo Lee, who has class in both of those areas. He also has the added confidence of being a PGA TOUR winner, having prevailed in the Houston Open just a matter of weeks ago.

Although the Australian’s approach play isn’t elite, we expect plenty of greens in regulation to be missed by everybody this week given the conditions – and we have no qualms about the quality of his short game, which is pretty much on a par with anybody else’s.

Daniel Berger – 80/1 – A quiet week on the greens prevented Daniel Berger from building on a T11 turn at the Truist Championship, but that has been a rarity in his impressive redemption arc.

He did, meanwhile, gain +6.43 strokes on the field, cumulatively, with his ball striking, continuing the trend that has swept him close to victory at the Phoenix Open and RBC Heritage in recent times.

Berger has the all-round class of a major champion, with finishes of T13 or better in all four majors indicative of that. You won’t get many chances to bet on 80/1 picks as high quality as this.

Harris English – 175/1 – Already a winner this term at the punishingly long Torrey Pines, Harris English’s game is in rude health.

For a while in 2024, he was simply riding a hot hand on the greens, with the ball-striking department going amiss.

But that has been solved in 2025; hence his victory at the Farmers Insurance Open and encouraging turns at The Masters (T12) and last week’s Truist Championship, where English once again showed his class by gaining strokes on a classy field with his ball striking and putting.

How often do you get to bet on guys with a win to their name this season and a T12 at The Masters at 175/1!?

Mackenzie Hughes – 175/1 – But for Ryan Fox’s chip in at the Myrtle Beach Classic, Mackenzie Hughes could have walked away with the trophy.

Okay, so that is a tournament several grades below a major, but it shows that the Canadian is playing good golf right now. And, more pertinently, this is a guy who is able to cope with tough conditions… which they may just be this week.

Hughes is known as something of a battler you want on side in a dogfight, and his class on and around the greens suggests he could far outperform these 175/1 odds this week.

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