The 2024 PGA Championship will begin on Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville and Justin Thomas will have a home field advantage as he seeks his third PGA Championship victory. Thomas was raised in Louisville and was recently named one of the city's "Hometown Heroes" with a 60-foot banner unfurled off the side of a building he used to drive by on the way to Saint Xavier high school. The 31-year-old is a 15-time PGA Tour winner who won this event in 2017 and 2022. Thomas is 40-1 in the latest 2024 PGA Championship odds, but is he a sneaky addition to your 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf lineups given his penchant for this event? Meanwhile, Scottie Scheffler is the 3-1 favorite and will be sky-high in the 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf rankings after winning four of the last five tournaments he's played. Before making any 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf picks, you have to see the PGA Championship fantasy golf rankings from SportsLine handicapper Eric Cohen.
Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2024 Masters (Scottie Scheffler, +350), Players Championship (Scheffler +550), 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (Rickie Fowler +1400), 2023 PGA Championship (Brooks Koepka +2000), 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scheffler's first career victory at +2800).
Cohen is a contributor to SportsLine's YouTube shows including "Early Edge" and is the host of "The Early Wedge" golf show. Anyone who has followed Cohen's predictions has made positive gains on their golf picks.
Now, Cohen has ranked his top golfers for the 2024 PGA Championship. Cohen's picks are only available at SportsLine.
2024 PGA Championship expert picks
For the PGA Championship 2024, Cohen is backing the 2023 U.S. Open winner Wyndham Clark (+1600). Clark had a rough showing at last weekend's Wells Fargo Championship, finishing T-47, but the 30-year-old finished T-3 at the RBC Heritage the week before. Clark has three top-three finishes over his last six tournaments, including finishing second at the Arnold Palmer invitation and T-2 at The Players Championship in back-to-back weekends in March. Only Scheffler, the world's No. 1 golfer, had better scores than Clark in those two March tournaments.
The 2024 PGA Championship will only be Clark's ninth career major and he already has a major title to his resume. Clark won last year's U.S. Open, so he's proven capable of excelling under the pressure of playing in majors. Clark is third in the FedEx Cup standings this year with four top-10 finishes over 11 events, including winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February, and he's fourth on the PGA Tour in total strokes gained this season.
On the other hand, Cohen is fading Patrick Cantlay at +2200. Cantlay is an eight-time PGA Tour winner and No. 8 in the Official World Golf Ranking after a third-place finish at the RBC Heritage. However, he's largely struggled in majors, finishing top-10 in four of his 28 career starts.
"For as good of a player as Cantlay is, the fact that he hasn't registered a top-five at a major since 2019 is astounding. I just can't vouch for him to finish much higher than barely inside the top 10 with the way his game has been inconsistent this season," Cohen told SportsLine. See all of Cohen's PGA Championship picks at SportsLine.
How to set 2024 PGA Championship Fantasy golf lineups
For this week, Cohen is backing several underdogs in his 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf picks, including a triple-digit longshot who "performed above average in all statistical categories" at this event last year and could help spice up your Fantasy golf lineups. See who it is, and get all of Cohen's fantasy golf picks, at SportsLine.
Who wins PGA Championship 2024, and who are the top players to target for your PGA fantasy golf picks? Visit SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen's fantasy golf rankings, all from the fantasy expert who has called seven outright winners since 2022, and find out.
