The best annual field in golf is not at the Masters, U.S. Open or British Open but the PGA Championship, even though that’s probably considered the “least prestigious” of the four major championships. The 2020 PGA Championship was supposed to be played in May but was postponed by the coronavirus. Let’s check the PGA Championship Odds for this years event

2020 PGA Championship Odds & Prediction April 7th 2020

On Monday, the PGA of America announced that it would shift the tournament to Aug. 6-9 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. The new date would be similar to the tournament’s former spot on the calendar, as the PGA was played in mid-August for several decades before a move to May last year.

The PGA Tour is moving its regular season finale, the Wyndham Championship, and all three FedEx Cup Playoff events one week later, starting the week of Aug. 10 and concluding with a Monday, Sept. 7 finish for the Tour Championship.

It’s far from a sure thing the event will even be played. The British Open, scheduled for July, already has been canceled. On Saturday, California governor Gavin Newsom questioned whether the state could host NFL games in stadiums as planned beginning in August. If the PGA does go on, it would be the first time the event was held on the West Coast since Vijay Singh won at Sahalee in 1998. The last time that the championship was played in California was in 1995, at Riviera.

With this schedule shift, the PGA Championship would become the first major of the year as the U.S. Open has been moved to September and the Masters to November. Winning the PGA Championship gives said player automatic invitations to play in the other three majors and The Players Championship for the next five years, and the winner is eligible for the PGA Championship for life. They receive membership on the PGA Tour for the following five seasons and on the European Tour for the following seven seasons. The PGA is the only one of the four majors to be a tournament almost exclusively for professional players.

The two-time defending champion and betting favorite with Rory McIlroy is Brooks Koepka. He won in 2018 at Bellerive Country Club outside St. Louis and then last year at Bethpage Black in New York. In the latter, Koepka shot a final-round, 4-over-par 74 and finished two shots clear of Dustin Johnson, his frequent workout partner who steadily cut into Koepka’s 54-hole, seven-shot lead before he fell back on the final three holes.

Koepka’s 74 was the highest final round by a PGA champion since Vijay Singh won in a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits. He joined Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship since it went to stroke play in 1958. He was the first wire-to-wire winner in the PGA Championship since Hal Sutton at Riviera in 1983.

With rounds of 63-65-70-74, Koepka finished at 8 under in a tournament where only six players finished under par. Johnson closed with a 69 and got within one shot with a birdie on the 15th just before Koepka bogeyed 14. But Johnson limped home with two bogeys in his final three holes. Koepka tied the PGA Championship record by opening with a 63. He broke the major championship record for 36 holes at 128. He set another PGA Championship record with his seven-shot lead.

McIlroy has won the PGA Championship twice, last in 2014 at Valhalla in Kentucky. A stroke in front of the chasing pack entering the final round, McIlroy lost the lead but regained control after the turn, signing off with a three-under-par 68 at Valhalla Golf Club for a 16-under total of 268.