2020 PGA Championship


The 2020 PGA Championship will be the 102nd edition of the PGA Championship, and the first of golf's three major championships played in 2020. It will be held August 3–9 at the TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California, having originally been scheduled for May 14–17. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the first major played in over a year, and will have no spectators in attendance.
Brooks Koepka enters the tournament as two time defending champion. If he wins, he will become only the second player to win three consecutive titles after Walter Hagen, and the first in the stroke play era.

Venue

This will be the first time Harding Park has held a major championship. It has previously held the 2015 WGC-Match Play Championship, won by Rory McIlroy, the 2009 Presidents Cup won by the United States, and the 2005 WGC-American Express Championship won by Tiger Woods. Before the COVID-19 pandemic it was planned to host up to 40,000 spectators per day at Harding Park.

Course layout

Field

The following qualification criteria were used to select the field; they were amended following the postponement of the tournament. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses. Dates when a qualifying category will be completely determined are indicated in italics.
;1. All former winners of the PGA Championship
Rich Beem, Keegan Bradley, John Daly, Jason Day, Jason Dufner, Martin Kaymer, Brooks Koepka, Davis Love III, Rory McIlroy, Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Justin Thomas, Jimmy Walker, Tiger Woods
;2. Winners of the last five Masters Tournaments
Sergio García, Patrick Reed, Danny Willett
;3. Winners of the last five U.S. Open Championships
Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Gary Woodland
;4. Winners of the last five Open Championships
Zach Johnson, Shane Lowry, Henrik Stenson
;5. Winners of the last three Players Championships
Kim Si-woo, Webb Simpson
;6. Winner of the 2019 Senior PGA Championship
Ken Tanigawa
;7. Top 15 and ties in the 2019 PGA Championship
Patrick Cantlay, Jazz Janewattananond, Kang Sung-hoon, Matt Kuchar, Luke List, Chez Reavie, Adam Scott, Erik van Rooyen, Matt Wallace
;8. Top 20 in the 2019 PGA Professional Player of the Year Standings
Michael Auterson, Danny Balin, Alex Beach, Rich Berberian Jr., Justin Bertsch, Jason Caron, Ben Cook, Judd Gibb, Jeff Hart, Marty Jertson, Zach J. Johnson, Alex Knoll, Rob Labritz, David Muttitt, John O'Leary, Rod Perry, Jeff Roth, Bob Sowards, Ryan Vermeer, Shawn Warren
;9. Top 70 in the PGA Championship Points standings
An Byeong-hun, Abraham Ancer, Daniel Berger, Cameron Champ, Corey Conners, Joel Dahmen, Bryson DeChambeau, Tyler Duncan, Harris English, Tony Finau, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Dylan Frittelli, Lanto Griffin, Adam Hadwin, Brian Harman, Tyrrell Hatton, Tom Hoge, Billy Horschel, Viktor Hovland, Mackenzie Hughes, Im Sung-jae, Kevin Kisner, Andrew Landry, Nate Lashley, Danny Lee, Marc Leishman, Adam Long, Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Sebastián Muñoz, Kevin Na, Joaquín Niemann, Louis Oosthuizen, Carlos Ortiz, Ryan Palmer, Scott Piercy, J. T. Poston, Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, Rory Sabbatini, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Smith, Brandt Snedeker, Brendan Steele, Sepp Straka, Kevin Streelman, Nick Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Michael Thompson, Brendon Todd, Matthew Wolff
;10. Playing members of the United States and European 2018 Ryder Cup teams ranked within the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 27, 2020
Paul Casey, Rickie Fowler, Ian Poulter, Bubba Watson
;11. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2019 PGA Championship
Jim Herman
; August 2
;12. PGA of America invitees not included in the categories above
Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Jorge Campillo, Jim Furyk, Lucas Glover, Benjamin Hébert, Lucas Herbert, Max Homa, Ryo Ishikawa, Matt Jones, Chan Kim, Kim Joo-hyung, Marcus Kinhult, Kurt Kitayama, Jason Kokrak, Tom Lewis, Li Haotong, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Joost Luiten, Robert MacIntyre, Graeme McDowell, Keith Mitchell, Shaun Norris, Pan Cheng-tsung, Victor Perez, Andrew Putnam, Matthias Schwab, Charl Schwartzel, Steve Stricker, Bernd Wiesberger
;13. Players outside the top 70 in PGA Championship Points to complete the field
Mark Hubbard, Doc Redman, Cameron Tringale
;Alternates
  1. Harold Varner III – replaced Thomas Pieters
  2. Troy Merritt – replaced Pádraig Harrington
  3. Talor Gooch – replaced Francesco Molinari
  4. Russell Henley – replaced Paul Waring
  5. Wyndham Clark – replaced J. B. Holmes
  6. Brian Stuard – replaced Charles Howell III

    Past champions expected in the field

Media

and CBS have the media rights to the 2020 PGA Championship. This marks the first year of the new media rights deal signed in October 2018, replacing the old deal with TNT and CBS. In the UK, Sky Sports will broadcast the event.