PGA Championship 2016 Odds: Vegas Projections for Top Picks in This Year’s Field

Who’s up for another major?Thanks to golf’s return to the Summer Olympics, the PGA Championship, normally played in mid-August, is on the calendar for a July 28 start, just 11 days after the conclusion of the British Open.Though Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson’s brilliant, historic showdown in the final round at the Royal Troon Golf Club this year will live long in the memory, golf’s collective attention span will quickly hone in on the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, for the 98th edition of the PGA Championship. Stenson, Mickelson, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and more headline a star-studded field at golf’s fourth and final major of the year. As of Monday, Rory McIlroy and Day hold the best odds of winning the PGA Championship, per Odds Shark.

Here’s how the rest of the top players in the field stack up, according to the oddsmakers.

It’s been a year of firsts so far at the majors. Englishman Danny Willett zipped into worldwide fame with a win at the 2016 Masters, then Dustin Johnson finally put years of torturous close misses behind him with a victory at the U.S. Open.

Stenson set records at the British Open with a four-round score of 264 (-20) to win his first major, so it seems the major-winning performances are only getting more memorable as the season moves along. Perhaps this trend will continue, and it won’t be the obvious candidates like Spieth, Day and McIlroy who will have their day (or rather, weekend) in Springfield.

Of golfers who have yet to win a major, Rickie Fowler has the best odds at plus-2,500. It would be quite the turnaround in form if he does pull it off at the PGA Championship.

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