Quail Hollow's 2025 PGA Champion | Holly 2
Enjoy aerial view on the 2nd hole of Quail Hollow, an iconic course designed to host the 2025 PGA Championship.
The PGA Tour has reached its second Grand Slam this year. The 2025 PGA Championship starts today with the Quial Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The field will surely win with the world's No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler at Byron Nelson. Rory McIlroy won the Masters and sat on the PGA currency list.
In the 2025 competition, there were 14 PGA titles in the past. Will anyone add to their resume?
Or will the new champion etching become history?
Let's take a look at the history of PGA champions.
Youngest PGA Champion
Gene Sarazen is the youngest PGA champion in history. He won the competition in 1922, and then again won the competition at the age of 20 and 21 in 1923.
Here is the youngest PGA champion:
- Gene Sarazen, 1922 - (20 years 169 days)
- Tom Creavy in 1931 - (20 years 219 days)
- Gene Sarazen, 1923 - (21 years, 210 days)
- 2012 Rory McIlroy - (23 years 97 days)
- Jack Nicklaus in 1963 - (23 years 177 days)
The oldest PGA champion
Phil Mickelson becomes the oldest golfer to win the PGA championship in 2021. At that time, Mickelson was 50 years old.
This is the oldest PGA champion:
- 2021 Phil Mickelson- (50 years 338 days)
- Julius Boros 1968 - (48 years 136 days)
- 1961 Jerry Barber - (45 years 92 days)
- Lee Trevino in 1984 - (44 years 258 days)
- 2004 Vijay Singh- (41 years, 172 days)
Most PGA champions win
Two men won the PGA championship five times. Walter Hagen won the event before he could switch to the stroke game format. Jack Nicklaus won five times in the stroke competition era.
Walter Hagen's PGA Champion: 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927
Jack Nicklaus won the PGA Championship: 1963, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1980
Past PGA Champion?
There are 14 past champions in the 2025 PGA championship field.
- Keegan Bradley
- Jason Day
- Jason Dufner
- Padrag Harrington
- Martin Kaymer
- Brooks Koepka
- Rory McIlroy
- Shaun Micheel
- Phil Mickelson
- Collin Morikawa
- Xander Schauffele
- Vijay Singh
- Justin Thomas
- Jimmy Walker
PGA champion of the year
| Year | winner | Fraction | course |
| 2024 | Xander Schauffele | -twenty one | Valhalla GC |
| 2023 | Brooks Koepka | -9 | Oak Hill CC |
| 2022 | Justin Thomas | -5 | Nanshan CC |
| 2021 | Phil Mickelson | -6 | Kiwa Island |
| 2020 | Collin Morikawa | -13 | TPC Harding Park |
| 2019 | Brooks Koepka | -8 | Bethpage Black |
| 2018 | Brooks Koepka | -16 | Bellerive CC |
| 2017 | Justin Thomas | -8 | Quail Hollow CC |
| 2016 | Jimmy Walker | -14 | Baltusrol GC (Part 2) |
| 2015 | Jason Day | -20 | Whistle Strait (Strait) |
| 2014 | Rory McIlroy | -16 | Valhalla GC |
| 2013 | Jason Duffner | -10 | Oak Hill CC |
| 2012 | Rory McIlroy | -13 | Kia Island (Ocean) |
| 2011 | Keegan Bradley | -8 | Atlanta Sports Club |
| 2010 | Martin Kaymer | -11 | Whistle strait |
| 2009 | yan Yang | -8 | Hazel Country GC |
| 2008 | Padrag Harrington | -3 | Auckland Hills (South) |
| 2007 | Tiger Woods | -8 | Nanshan CC |
| 2006 | Tiger Woods | -18 | Medina CC (#3) |
| 2005 | Phil Mickelson | -4 | Baltusrol GC (Part 2) |
| 2004 | Vijay Singh | -8 | Whistle Strait (Strait) |
| 2003 | Shaun Micheel | -4 | Oak Hill CC (East) |
| 2002 | Rich Beme | -10 | Hazel Country GC |
| 2001 | David Toms | -15 | Atlanta Sports Club |
| 2000 | Tiger Woods | -18 | Valhalla CC |
| 1999 | Tiger Woods | -11 | Medina CC (#3) |
| 1998 | Vijay Singh | -9 | Sahari cc |
| 1997 | Davis Love III | -11 | Wing cc |
| 1996 | Mark Brooks | -11 | Valhalla GC |
| 1995 | Steve Elkington | -17 | Riviera CC |
| 1994 | Nick Price | -11 | Nanshan CC |
| 1993 | Paul Singer | -12 | Inverness Club |
| 1992 | Nick Price | -6 | Bellerive CC |
| 1991 | John gave it | -12 | Bending stick GC |
| 1990 | Wayne Grady | -6 | Shoal Creek GCC |
| 1989 | Payne Stewart | -12 | Kemper Lake GC |
| 1988 | Jeff Shimang | -12 | Oak GC |
| 1987 | Larry Nelson | -1 | PGA Country |
| 1986 | Bob Tway | -8 | Inverness Club |
| 1985 | Hubert Green | -6 | Cherry Mountain CC |
| 1984 | Lee Trevino | -15 | Shoal Creek GCC |
| 1983 | Hal Sutton | -10 | Riviera CC |
| 1982 | Raymond Floyd | -8 | Nanshan CC |
| 1981 | Larry Nelson | -7 | Atlanta Sports Club |
| 1980 | Jack Nicklaus | -6 | Oak Hill CC |
| 1979 | David Graham | -8 | Auckland Hills CC |
| 1978 | John Mahaffey | -8 | Oakmont CC |
| 1977 | Lanny Wadkins | -6 | Pebbles Beach Golf Links |
| 1976 | Dave Stockton | 1 | Congress CC |
| 1975 | Jack Nicklaus | -4 | Firestone CC |
| 1974 | Lee Trevino | -4 | Tangwood Park |
| 1973 | Jack Nicklaus | -7 | Canterbury GC |
| 1972 | Gary Player | 1 | Auckland Hills CC |
| 1971 | Jack Nicklaus | -7 | PGA Country |
| 1970 | Dave Stockton | -1 | Nanshan CC |
| 1969 | Raymond Floyd | -8 | NCR CC |
| 1968 | Julius Boros | 1 | Hickory Valley GC |
| 1967 | Tang Yiyue | -7 | Columbine Bank |
| 1966 | Al Geiberger | e | Firestone CC |
| 1965 | Dave Marr | -4 | Laurel Valley GC |
| 1964 | Bobby Nichols | -9 | Columbus CC |
| 1963 | Jack Nicklaus | -5 | Dallas Sports Club |
| 1962 | Gary Player | -2 | Aronomink GC |
| 1961 | Jerry Barber | -3 | Olympia Field CC |
| 1960 | Jay Herbert | 1 | Firestone CC |
| 1959 | Bob Rossburg | -3 | Minneapolis GC |
| 1958 | Dow Finsterwald | -4 | Lantern CC |