Draftkings PGA Championship First Round Picks 5/15/25

This Thursday, Draftkings golf fans will be presented with the first round of the 2025 PGA Championship. Let’s take a look at the first round of this tournament from a DFS perspective.

Before I discuss my Draftkings player selections for this week’s PGA Tour event let’s review where the first round of the 2025 PGA Championship will be played.

The 2025 PGA Championship will be played at the Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. The golf course is a par 71 that measures approximately 7,626 yards.

*Xander Schauffele won the 2024 PGA Championship with a four round cumulative score of 21 under par.

I wanted to emphasize that the purpose of this article is not to provide an exact DFS lineup.

Having stated that, this article will provide multiple player options in an effort to assist the reader in generating a unique lineup that will hopefully have the potential to win a DraftKings GPP (guaranteed prize pool) contest! Keep that in mind as you construct your lineups for this DFS slate.

For those readers that are not aware, the rules and scoring for DraftKings single round showdown contests are vastly different than the traditional classic contests offered by the platform.

If you need to review the specific rules for the single round showdown contests feel free to check out the DraftKings website.

Here are my DraftKings player selections for the first round of the 2025 PGA Championship.

Draftkings PGA Championship First Round Picks

Patrick Cantlay $9,000

Since the beginning of January, Patrick Cantlay has played ten tournaments on the PGA Tour. In those ten events just noted, Cantlay amassed six top 13 finishes, including a fifth-place result at the 2025 Genesis Invitational in February.

Patrick Cantlay certainly checks the box for me when it comes to key player statistics. Let me be more specific. Cantlay is currently ranked tenth in strokes gained approach (0.700), third in GIR (greens in regulation-72.36%), tenth in strokes gained tee to green (1.111), 20th in birdie or better percentage (23.4%), and 16trh in birdie average (4.35) on the PGA Tour.

Tommy Fleetwood $8,600

The talented Englishman arrives at this week’s event on the heels of two consecutive top seven finishes on the PGA Tour, including a fourth-place result at last week’s 2025 Truist Championship.

Fleetwood is currently ranked tenth in overall strokes gained (1.303), 13th in strokes gained tee to green (1.059), 13th in strokes gained approach (0.651), ninth in overall putting average (1.706), 13th in overall scoring average (70.26), 19th in birdie average (4.33) and 14th in par four scoring average (3.96) on the PGA Tour.

Tommy Fleetwood finished fifth at the 2023 PGA Championship.

Corey Conners $8,100

Conners has compiled five 11 finishes in his last seven tournaments played on the PGA Tour, including a third-place result at the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational in March. Additionally, Conners finished eighth at the 2023 PGA Championship.

Conners is currently ranked 17th in strokes gained off the tee (0.444), tenth in GIR (greens in regulation-70.89%), 14th in par four scoring average (3.96) and 17th in driving accuracy (66.77%) on the PGA Tour.

What did we learn from the data just presented? The data clearly illustrates that Corey Conners is playing exceptionally well entering this week’s 2025 PGA Championship. With that said, I am backing Conners as a flex play for this PGA Tour DFS slate.

Additional golfers I like to perform well in the first round of the 2025 PGA Championship (Draftkings price noted): Rory McIlroy $12,000: Justin Thomas $10,200: Hideki Matsuyama $8,900: Keegan Bradley $7,400: Rickie Fowler $7,300: Gary Woodland $6,700.