Tournaments / 2026
PGA Championship
2026-05-14 · Aronimink Golf Club
- Winner
- Aaron Rai
- Winning score
- -9
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.293 SG
The 2026 PGA Championship was played at Aronimink Golf Club, starting 14 May 2026. Aaron Rai won at 9 under par (271), 3 strokes ahead of Alex Smalley. The winning card was 70, 69, 67 and 65, and the win paid $3,690,000. Alex Smalley and Jon Rahm tied for second. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.293 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 66% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Aaron Rai
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Alex Smalley
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 275
- Ludvig Åberg
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Matti Schmid
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Chris Gotterup
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Kurt Kitayama
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 277
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Ben Griffin
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 278
- Max Greyserman
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Scottie Scheffler
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- David Puig
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Harris English
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Joaquin Niemann
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 279
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 82 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.442
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 26.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (84th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | 1st | 14th |
| Rory McIlroy | 2nd | 7th |
| Xander Schauffele | 3rd | 7th |
| Collin Morikawa | 4th | 55th |
| Ludvig Åberg | 5th | 4th |
| Cameron Young | 6th | 26th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 7th | 35th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 8th | 26th |
| Jon Rahm | 9th | 2nd |
| Si Woo Kim | 10th | 35th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Cameron Smith | 76th | 7th(−69) |
| Padraig Harrington | 82nd | 18th(−64) |
| Matti Schmid | 63rd | 4th(−59) |
| David Puig | 75th | 18th(−57) |
| Collin Morikawa | 4th | 55th(+51) |
| Daniel Hillier | 77th | 26th(−51) |
| Rickie Fowler | 13th | 60th(+47) |
| Tom Hoge | 71st | 26th(−45) |
| Stephan Jaeger | 61st | 18th(−43) |
| Ryan Gerard | 31st | 70th(+39) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
This event in the model
OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
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Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.