With the PGA Championship’s rich history, we’ve taken a look at all the key facts and statistics to help get you ready for the 108th edition at Aronimink Golf Club.
Consider it worth the wait.
Aronimink Golf Club returns to the major championship stage this week as it hosts the 108th PGA Championship, ending a 64-year wait since the tournament was last played on the Pennsylvania course, the longest gap in the event’s history.
In 1962, Gary Player claimed his first PGA Championship at Aronimink as one of only two players to finish under par, adding an extra layer of intrigue as the year’s second major returns to a venue steeped in history.
Following are PGA Championship facts and statistics to know heading toward the action from Thursday to Sunday. (Also see our Golf Advanced Stats Zone.) Aronimink is set up as a par-70, 7,394-yard layout.
American Dominance and McIlroy Exploits
While the course reconnects the major with its past, recent editions of the PGA Championship have been defined by a clear modern trend: American dominance. The last 10 winners have all come from the United States, the longest run by a single nationality at a major since U.S. golfers won the U.S. Open in 12 consecutive years from 1982-93. The most-recent non-American winner was Jason Day in 2015, preceded one year earlier by the last European to lift the Wanamaker Trophy, Rory McIlroy.
That pattern reflects a wider shift across the four men’s major tournaments. Ten of the last 12 majors have been won by American players, with only McIlroy breaking the sequence with wins in the last two Masters.
Having already secured the season’s first major, McIlroy, a career Grand Slam winner, has the opportunity to achieve something rarely seen in the modern era. Only Tiger Woods (2002) and Jordan Spieth (2015) have won the first two majors of a calendar year over the last half century.
McIlroy’s victory at Augusta also elevated him further in the historical rankings. He now owns six major titles – two Masters, two PGA Championships, one U.S. Open and one Open Championship – equaling Nick Faldo for the most major wins by a European golfer post-World War II. That total also places him one-third of the way to Jack Nicklaus’ all-time record of 18 majors.
The Scheff-Schauff Standards
Standing in McIlroy’s way, however, is the man who has been the dominant force in men’s golf over the past few seasons. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler arrives at Aronimink attempting to become only the third player in the stroke play era (since 1958) to win the PGA Championship in consecutive years, after Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka. Scheffler’s record in this event has been remarkably consistent: In six appearances, he’s finished outside the top 10 just once, when he missed the cut in 2022.
More broadly, Scheffler’s major championship record since 2020 underlines his status as the benchmark. Over that span, he leads all players in both major victories (four) and top-10 finishes (17 in 23 starts), including in his last six overall. Lately, his streak of three consecutive second-places on the PGA Tour at the Masters, RBC Heritage and Cadillac Championship will have him hungry to taste silverware once again.
Few players have matched that consistency across golf’s biggest stages quite like Xander Schauffele. Since 2017, he’s produced 18 top-10 finishes in 35 major appearances (51.4%), a total bettered only by McIlroy’s 20 in the same period. Schauffele also holds the longest active streak of cuts made at majors, having played the weekend 16 consecutive times. His only previous appearance at Aronimink? He tied for third in the 2018 BMW Championship.
Hot Stuff
Among the players still chasing their first major victory, Cameron Young is experiencing the most transformational year of his professional career with two (prestigious) wins at the Players and Cadillac Championship. Since 2022, he’s recorded seven top-10 finishes in majors, trailing just Scheffler, McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau and Schauffele during that period.
Young’s last six PGA Tour appearances are a tie for seventh, a T-3, a win, T-3, T-25 and another win. He’s not messing around.
On the subject of trending players, Matt Fitzpatrick arrives as one of the hottest commodities on the PGA Tour this season. His three victories – at the Valspar Championship, the RBC Heritage and the Zurich Classic alongside his brother Alex – are the most of any player this year. He sits third on the Tour in the strokes gained: tee-to-green ranking, a metric which will prove a real asset at Aronimink because the course has a tendency to particularly punish “second shot” inaccuracy. However, Fitzpatrick’s recent PGA Championship record has been polarizing: top-10 finishes in 2022 and 2025 but missed cuts in 2023 and 2024.
Experience also may prove valuable at Aronimink, and few players combine current form with course history quite like Justin Rose. The Englishman has finished inside the top three in three of his last six majors and has enjoyed particular success at the PGA Championship since 2020, collecting four top-10 finishes in six starts. Aronimink has also treated him well as he won the 2011 AT&T National, finished tied for 15th the following year, and was runner-up at the 2018 BMW Championship after losing a playoff to Keegan Bradley. The real question will be around whether he has managed to adapt to his set of irons following his recent change of manufacturer.
Bradley remains the most-recent PGA Tour winner at Aronimink with that BMW victory. Also, the PGA Championship holds special significance for the last U.S. Ryder Cup captain as he won the 2011 event at the Atlanta Athletic Club in his major tournament debut.
Course history could play a role for several others. Tommy Fleetwood has only one top-10 finish in 11 PGA Championship appearances, but he tied the Aronimink course record twice during the 2018 BMW Championship, shooting 62 in the second and third rounds on his way to a tie for eighth.
Elsewhere, Bryson DeChambeau has developed a habit of contending specifically at this event. He has finished inside the top five in each of the last three PGA Championships – T-4, second and T2 – with more than half of his major top-five finishes coming in this tournament. Another element that could favor DeChambeau: Aronimink stands out through its sheer distance and number of long par-4s.
The PGA Championship has occasionally produced surprise champions, with five first-time winners in the past 40 years, or more than the other three majors combined in that span. Yet drama of another kind has been relatively rare: Only one playoff has been required in the last 14 editions, when Justin Thomas defeated Will Zalatoris in 2022.
History In The Making
While many storylines revolve around players adding to already decorated résumés, one of the week’s most compelling narratives involves a potential place in golfing immortality. Jordan Spieth arrives at Aronimink with the chance to complete the career Grand Slam. Only six players in history – Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy – have won all four modern majors. A PGA Championship victory would make Spieth the seventh. Yet recent results in this tournament suggest the task will not be straightforward: He hasn’t finished inside the top 25 at the PGA since a T-3 in 2019.
Milestones of a different kind await Adam Scott, who will make his 100th major championship appearance this week, becoming the first Australian man to reach that mark. Remarkably, it will also be his 99th consecutive major start, a streak stretching back to the 2001 Open Championship.
Scott’s sole major title came at the 2013 Masters, where he defeated Ángel Cabrera in a playoff. However, he comes in with confidence and a rejuvenated iron game. Statistically this year, he’s one of the best PGA Tour players at hitting the green in the right spot, ranking third in the strokes gained: approach category.
With Aronimink returning after more than six decades and a field featuring both established champions and players chasing defining moments, the stage appears set for another compelling chapter in the PGA Championship’s long history. Whether it’s the continuation of American dominance, a milestone victory for McIlroy or the emergence of a new major champion, the numbers suggest there are plenty of storylines waiting to unfold.
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