What is PGA Championship 2025 playoff format? How it works, playoff holes and history
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.
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Here's a look at what will happen if there's a tie at the end of Sunday's fourth round:
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PGA Championship 2025 playoff format
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.
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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)
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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)
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: PGA Championship playoff format, rules, holes, history and more
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