The year’s second golf major will tee off Thursday at a course quite familiar to hosting majors. The 2022 PGA Championship will be held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, one of just four courses in the world that has hosted at least three PGA Championships and three U.S. Opens. The PGA Championship 2022 will mark the fifth event of its kind to be contested there. Defending champion Phil Mickelson will not be a part of the 2022 PGA Championship field, but 14 other past champions will be in attendance, including three multi-winners: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka.
Two golfers who have never won the tournament before top the 2022 PGA Championship odds at Caesars Sportsbook. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and World No. 2 Jon Rahm are both 11-1 among the top 2022 PGA Championship golfers. McIlroy and Justin Thomas each come in at 14-1, while Dustin Johnson is 18-1 and Jordan Spieth is 20-1. Before you make any 2022 PGA Championship picks, you need to see what proven golf insider Sal Johnson has to say.
The esteemed golf insider has been around the game for many years and knows what it takes to win on the PGA Tour, and he is tuned in to the major championships.
In his last set of predictions for SportsLine, he nailed the Masters for the third time in four years. Johnson backed Scheffler, who has just been playing too well to be ignored. “Scheffler is on a run where he has been hard to beat, and I see it rolling on at Augusta National,” he said before the 25-year-old got his fourth victory of the season. He also called Woods’ unlikely victory at Augusta in 2019 and Dustin Johnson’s 2020 win, when he shot a tournament-record 20-under 268.
At the PGA Championship, the past two winners were surprises, with 50-year-old Mickelson winning last year and Collin Morikawa taking the 2020 title in his second major start. But Johnson backed the winner the previous two years, as…
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