There are 14 criteria to qualify for the 2025 PGA Championship, including via special invitation from PGA of America. It is through invitation that several golfers who no longer play on the PGA Tour received their bids for the year's second major.

There is wall-to-wall coverage of the PGA Championship. It starts Thursday and Friday at 7 a.m. (Eastern Time) on ESPN+ until noon, and then it switches to ESPN until 7 p.m. On the weekend, coverage goes from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on ESPN+, then moves to ESPN until 1 p.m. CBS (and Paramount+) take over from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Behind Scheffler in the odds are: McIlroy (4.5-1), DeChambeau (14-1), Jon Rahm (16-1), reigning PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele (18-1) then Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg, who both have 20-to-1 odds.