2026 PGA Championship Sleepers: 5 Potential DraftKings Golf DFS Values

PGA Championship week is officially upon us, and we’re kicking things off with 2026 PGA Championship sleepers. The second major of the year brings us to West Philadelphia, where we’ll see the game’s best converge at Aronimink Golf Club for the first time since the 2018 BMW Championship. I could not be more excited to discuss this field and my favorite 2026 PGA Championship DFS picks.

While longshots were instantly written off at the Masters, they are far more viable in this field of 156 at the second major of the year. We’ve seen significant longshots like Phil Mickelson, Jimmy Walker, Keegan Bradley, and Jason Dufner win the PGA Championship, so I won’t shy away from filling my DraftKings DFS lineups with players priced at the bottom of the board.

With Aronimink expected to play easier than recent PGA Championship venues, that should open the door for more sleepers who lack distance, but enter in great form, to stay in the mix this week.

Scroll to the bottom of this post for a selection of PGA Championship odds if you’re looking for betting markets.

COURSE INTRODUCTION FOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP DFS

Aronimink Golf Club is an anomaly by modern major venue standards. Over recent years, we’ve seen the PGA Championship tap gargantuan courses that could just as easily be chosen for a U.S. Open. At recent venues like Quail Hollow, Valhalla, Oak Hill, Southern Hills, Kiawah Island, and Bethpage Black, driving distance was a prerequisite in order to find scoring opportunities.

That will not be the case at Aronimink Golf Club this week, which sits just under 7,400 yards. Collin Morikawa won at TPC Harding Park the last time the PGA Championship was held at a venue around this yardage, so it should mark a rare opportunity once again for the shorter approach marksmen to hang around in contention with the typical modern major stalwarts.

Referencing event history at the PGA Championship and other challenging major venues will be the natural path chosen by DFS players to fill out their player pool. But with this venue playing so differently from the recent PGA Championship sites of recent years, I see an opportunity to zag away from performances in majors alone. Instead, I’m looking to take a chance on sleepers further down the board this week who enter in excellent form, particularly with their irons and putting.

For a deeper dive into the course, read my PGA Championship preview. Without any further delay, let’s get to our PGA Championship DFS picks, focusing on longshots and sleepers for your lineups.

2026 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP DFS PICKS: 5 SLEEPERS

From a DFS standpoint, I’ll try to fit in at least two top-10 players from this field into each lineup, avoiding the mid-tier range for balanced builds. That means hitting on the high upside value players in the $7K and $6K ranges is crucial.

Below, find my favorite value DFS options and longshots for the 2026 PGA Championship. PGA Championship stats pulled from across the last 36 rounds unless otherwise noted.

Corey Conners ($7,500)

The pride of Canada, Corey Conners seems to always play his best golf whenever he tees it up on familiar Bentgrass greens to what he grew up on in The True North. I’m viewing Donald Ross’ Oak Hill as the top overall comp course for what players will face this week at Aronimink, and that happens to be the site of Conners’ best career PGA Championship finish. His T12 finish at the 2023 PGA Championship does not tell the full story, as Conners was atop the leaderboard going into Sunday, before ejecting out of contention in tough Sunday conditions.

Conners’ love for Bentgrass greens transcends the northeast, as we’ve seen him consistently contend at Augusta National. He’s finished top-10 in four of his last seven Masters tournaments. Conners’ game has traveled across all of the majors, as he has 10 top-20 finishes in majors since 2020. One of the most consistent ball-strikers on the PGA Tour, Conners will enter in solid form once again, with just one missed cut in 2026. He makes for an appealing high-floor value play in DraftKings DFS this week.

Adam Scott ($7,500)

Elite tee-to-green players have withstood poor putting performances to win on Donald Ross courses before. Ross’ greens – particularly in firm conditions – are reminiscent of Augusta National’s. With such fast and severe contours, players hole 20-footers at a much lower rate than Tour average, instead leading to more defensive putting and an emphasis on approach putting and three-putt avoidance.

I’m committed to being early on Adam Scott this year. He is assuredly the most “due” player for a win amongst those who have not won post-COVID. Relative to other major championship venues, Aronimink projects to be one of the most approach-biased, neutralizing the advantage of pure bombers and instead rewarding those how can get up and in from inside 150 yards most consistently.

That is music to Scott’s ears, as he ranks No. 1 overall in this field in the all-important category of SG: APP in 2026. Scott has nine top-25s and zero missed cuts over his first 10 starts of the year. The veteran has six career top-10 finishes at the PGA Championship and looks poised to add another to his total this week.

Nicolai Hojgaard ($6,500)

Majors always offer soft pricing on longshots, with slates released weeks in advance before the most recent tournament concludes. As such, players like Nicolai Hojgaard offer incredible value for cash game lineups, even with their high expected ownership. Hojgaard was a worthy consideration at Aronimink, even before his impressive T2 finish at the Truist Championship last week. The 25-year-old former Ryder Cupper may not have a PGA Tour win under his belt yet, but he has all the makings of a longtime contender on the game’s biggest stages.

He’s won three times on the DP World Tour in his young career, and ranks 15th on the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup season-long standings. The latter is a result of four top-10 finishes this season at the WM Phoenix Open, Cognizant Classic, Texas Children’s Houston Open, and Truist Championship.

Hojgaard is an extremely skilled driver with elite length and approach play. He ranks top-10 in this field in SG: APP over the last 36 rounds, and holds a streak of 16 consecutive starts in which he’s gained on the field on approach. As long as his putter cooperates, he is the best value in DFS relative to his price on the slate this week.

Kristoffer Reitan ($6,200)

Speaking of Scandinavian greatness, Reitan is riding a high into Aronimink this week, picking up his first career PGA Tour win at the Truist Championship. That marks his third win over the last 12 months between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.

Reitan is a promising young talent at the age of 28, and is making a compelling case for PGA Tour Rookie of the Year honors already with four top-15 finishes over his last five starts. With elite length & putting skill, and the ability to spike with his irons, we should expect Reitan’s game to translate in majors for years to come. He’s finished T41 and T30 in his last two major starts, but his game continues to improve with each passing week.

While I may prefer Reitan on a longer and more forgiving venue like Quail Hollow over Aronimink, his form is too good to ignore at the moment, especially at this much of an odds discount. He projects as a relatively safe cut-maker with legitimate top-20 upside.

Matt McCarty ($5,700)

Is Matt McCarty going to win the PGA Championship this week? I highly doubt it. But as I look down the $5K range in search of a player I can comfortably pair with Scottie Scheffler for salary relief, McCarty is the name I feel most comfortable with. There is no denying his form at this point, finishing top-15 in each of his last four starts. It’s impressive to see his game has translate just as well on a positional venue like Harbour Town (T12), as it has on bombers tracks like Doral (T9) and Quail Hollow (T10).

McCarty is a bona fide birdie-maker and is at his best on easier scoring venues. It was at the Black Desert Championship where he broke through for his first career PGA Tour win in 2024. While Aronimink is nothing like Black Desert Resort, I’m most optimistic about McCarty’s chances to mix in an easier-scoring major like this week, where he can lean on his putting skill to separate. McCarty’s proven he can handle severely contoured Bentgrass greens already, finishing T14 and T24 in his first two trips to The Masters.

Continuing to display great approach and putting form, McCarty is a great salary-saving option with a relatively high floor as he looks to continue his run of hot form.

Best of luck if you choose to roster these PGA Championship DFS picks.

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