The 2025 PGA Championship is the 107th edition of this major event, the second of four for PGA Tour golfers. If the event needs a playoff to determine the winner at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, it wouldn’t exactly be the first time.
Here’s a look at what will happen if there’s a tie at the end of Sunday’s fourth round: HOW MUCH? PGA Championship 2025 purse, payout: See prize money for Wanamaker Trophy winner If two or more players are tied after 72 holes, the PGA Championship will be decided with a three-hole playoff using aggregate scoring. If there remains a tie after the three holes, the playoff moves to one-hole sudden death. The three holes for the playoff will be the par-4 16th, the par-3 17th and the par-4 18th, which so happen to be three of the toughest holes this week.
The Masters, won in 2025 by Rory McIlroy in a playoff over Justin Rose, uses sudden death. The U.S. Open follows a two-hole playoff system while the British Open goes with a four-hole aggregate for a playoff.PGA Championship playoff history The first two playoffs necessary to determine the Wanamaker Trophy winner were 18-hole playoffs on the following day. The next six playoff situations were sudden death. In 2000, the PGA Championship began using a three-hole aggregate, which it has used ever since.
1961: Jerry Barber defeated Don January (18-hole playoff)
1967: Don January defeated Don Massengale (18-hole playoff)
1977: Lanny Wadkins defeated Gene Littler (sudden death)
1978: John Mahaffey defeated Tom Watson and Jerry Pate (sudden death)
1979: David Graham defeated Ben Crenshaw (sudden death)
1993: Paul Azinger defeated Greg Norman (sudden death)
1995: Steve Elkington defeated Colin Montgomerie (sudden death)
1996: Mark Brooks defeated Kenny Perry (sudden death)
2000: Tiger Woods defeated Bob May (three-hole playoff)
2004: Vijay Singh defeated Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco (three-hole playoff)
2010: Martin Kaymer defeated Bubba Watson (three-hole playoff)
2011: Keegan Bradley defeated Justin Dufner (three-hole playoff)
2022: Justin Thomas defeated Will Zalatoris (three-hole playoff)
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