PGA Championship

The 2024 PGA Championship ran from May 16 – 19, 2024 at Valhalla Golf Course in  in Louisville, Kentucky and was won by American Xander Schauffele who celebrated his first major tournament success. 

The PGA Championship is now the second major golfing championship held annually in May*, on the weekend leading up to Memorial Day, having been moved up from its previous mid-August position from 2019 on.  Chronologically on the major golf championships calendar, the PGA Championship – often called the US PGA – follows on from The US Masters in March.

*Note: The 2020 PGA Championship was moved to August and was the first of the majors to take place for the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Running at various golf courses around America, the PGA Championship offers a $17.5 million prize fund (as of 2023) and is it is known for its exclusivity as the field features an almost completing pro-player line-up. It is the only one of the four golf majors not to definitively allow the Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings into the field. That said, the Top 100 players are usually invited if not already qualified.

Established in 1916, the PGA Championships traditionally runs in the eastern half of the US with the west of the country only hosting 10 previous editions of the time-honoured tournament.

• US PGA Championship Tournament Dates: May 16 – 19, 2024
• Location: Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky
• Edition: 106th
• Field: 156 maximum
• Winner’s Prize Fund: $3,150,000
• 2024 PGA Championship Winner: Xander Schauffele (USA)
• Winning 2024 PGA Championship Score: 263 (−21)

The 106th edition of the PGA Championship took place at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the fourth time the event has been hosted by the venue after taking place there in 1996, 2000, and most recently 2014.

American Xander Schauffele won with a score of 263 (−21) enjoying his first golf major success.

US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT

• Venue: Various locations across the US
• Date: May
• Inauguration: 1916
• Par: 71 (in 2024)
• Length: 7,609 yards or 6,958 m (in 2024)
• Format: Stroke Play (1958 – present)
• Tours: European Tour, PGA Tour, Japan Golf Tour
• Prize Money: US $17.5 million (in 2024)
• Current 2024 PGA Championship Champion: Xander Schauffele (2024)

The PGA Championship is often known outside its home country as the US PGA Championship and from 1958 – the present day is a Stroke Play formatted golfing major. Prior to 1958, the PGA Championship took place as a Match Play scoring system before the format change saw it fall into line with the other golf majors.

Future sites for the PGA Championship have been announced right up until the 2034 (116th) edition.

Each year the PGA Champion is invited to attend all three other golf majors, along with The Players Championship, for the next five years. The PGA Championship winner is also awarded a replica of the Wanamaker Trophy, named in honour of the late Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863 – 1928) who was a department store tycoon and golfing enthusiast. Wanamaker donated the very first PGA Championship gold medal awarded to inaugural champ Jim Barnes who also received a $500 cash prize!

Future PGA Championship Venues

PGA Championship Records

PGA Championship Winners