The second major of the 2025 PGA Tour season brings us to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina for the PGA Championship. Xander Schauffele will attempt to defend his 2024 title with co-betting favorites Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler leading the field of 156 golfers.
McIlroy has won at Quail Hollow Club four different times in his PGA Tour career. He’s red hot in 2025, posting three outright wins, including his first win at The Masters to complete a career Grand Slam at majors. Scheffler will make his solo debut at Quail Hollow Club after helping his team win the 2023 Presidents Cup at this course.
Last week’s Truist Championship DFS Primer had one good result but was primarily a disappointment. Corey Conners posted a T11 finish at -9-under-par during the PGA Tour’s inaugural outing at the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course, coming through with a strong performance at $8.8K on DraftKings. Maverick McNealy ($8.3K – DK), Brian Harman ($8.9K – FD) and Tom Hoge ($8.5K – FD) all placed T46 or worse in a cut-free event, failing to generate any significant production in DFS lineups.
Here are four golfers that deserve to be plugged into DraftKings and FanDuel DFS lineups during the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club this week. Follow me on X at Matt_MacKay_ for more PGA DFS recommendations, along with analysis and free picks throughout the 2025 PGA Tour season.
2025 PGA Championship DFS Primer
Previous Winners
- 2024 – Xander Schauffele (-21)
- 2023 – Brooks Koepka (-9)
- 2022 – Justin Thomas (-5)
- 2021 – Phil Mickelson (-6)
- 2020 – Collin Morikawa (-13)
Relevant Betting Stats
- Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee
- Driving Distance
- Strokes Gained: Approach
- Scrambling
- Strokes Gained: Putting
Course Overview
Quail Hollow Club plays as a par 71 running 7,626 yards. It’s a difficult course due to its length, closing out with the infamous “Green Mile” on Holes 16-18. Recent renovations made by Tom Fazio have added distance and adjusted tee boxes.
The fairways are overseeded Bermudagrass with rye, which is also the same surface comprising the rough. Rough stands four inches tall, punishing errant lies off-the-tee and on approach, while plenty of trees also line fairways to create difficult recovery shots.
Bermudagrass greens expected to run upwards of 13 feet via Stimpmeter. This is the top-end speed on the PGA Tour. Greens are roughly average in size. Several water hazards in play, with most waiting on the back-nine, especially in the closing “Green Mile” stretch.
Distance off-the-tee and on approach are key to success at Quail Hollow Club. Driver will be the primary club on most par 4 and par 5 tees, while those who figure out the Bermudagrass putting speeds and breaks will gain another distinct advantage.
Recommended Plays: DraftKings
DraftKings maximum salary is set at $50,000
Justin Thomas: $9,900
I’ll take Justin Thomas at under a $10,000 salary on DraftKings. Thomas is red-hot right now, winning the RBC Heritage with a clutch 28-foot birdie to beat Andrew Novak on the first playoff hole. Followed that win up with a T2 finish at the Truist Championship.
Ranked third in total strokes gained this season, including fifth SG: Approach and 20th SG: Putting. Second on par 4s and birdie average (4.82), while sitting fifth in scoring average (69.18) and first on the PGA Tour in putting average.
Let’s grab a great tee-to-green tactician like Thomas, who also has 18 or more birdies in four of his past five events played.
Harris English: $6,800
Harris English is a sneaky play at under $7,000 this week. He’s great with his driver, ranked 24th in total driving, which will help him avoid bad lies at Quail Hollow Club this week.
Ranked 18th SG: Putting and top 60 on par 4s. English won the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, which is a similar lengthy course that demands power and distance off-the-tee.
English has the ability to sink putts consistently, leading to three top 20 finishes in his last four events. Two of these outings saw English log 18 birdies, including at The Masters.
Logged a solo third-place finish at Quail Hollow Club during the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship. Let’s take the value on English and get him into DraftKings lineups at a cheap $6,800 salary.
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Recommended Plays: FanDuel
FanDuel maximum salary is set at $60,000
Corey Conners: $9,500
I’m definitely running it back with Corey Conners this week, even at an elevated salary. He’s playing too well with his irons to ignore at under $10,000 on FanDuel DFS.
The Canadian ball-striker just logged a T11 finish at the Truist Championship. He’s coming off of an eighth-place finish at the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship and another 13th-place finish in 2024 at the same event, held here at Quail Hollow Club.
Ranked 17th SG: Off-the-Tee, 10th at hitting greens in regulation, and 25th proximity. Putter remains shaky but ranks 14th on par 4s, 13th scrambling from the rough and 17th in driving accuracy.
I like Conners to keep playing well tee-to-green at Quail Hollow this week, logging his seventh top 20 finish in the past eight events. Make sure to grab him at $9,500 on FanDuel.
Keegan Bradley: $8,400
Keegan Bradley hasn’t lit the PGA Tour on fire in 2025 but he’s got two top 10s and six top 25s in 11 events played. Bradley ranks 26th in total strokes gained metrics, including 29th SG: Off-the-Tee and 23rd SG: Approach.
21st proximity, 28th on par 4s and 53rd in putting average. Bradley has gone 18-35-21 in his last three appearances at Quail Hollow during the Wells Fargo Championship events from 2021 – 2024.
Proven winner who is solid tee-to-green but has struggled with the putter in 2025. At $8.4K, Bradley offers decent value for us to hopefully get a seventh top 25 finish at the PGA Championship this week.
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