The US PGA Championship gets under way this week, and a host of current and former HotelPlanner Tour players will tee it up at Quail Hollow Club.
In total, 32 of the 156-strong field are HotelPlanner Tour alumni, including current Road to Mallorca Number One, Daniel Van Tonder. The South African, who won the first two events of the 2025 season, booked his spot at the second Major Championship of the year after placing inside the top three on the International Federation Rankings.
2024 Number One Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen will make his maiden Major appearance in Charlotte after receiving a special invitation. Another 2024 graduate who earned a spot via invitation is John Parry. Englishman Parry won three times last year and finished second on the Road to Mallorca Rankings.
Marco Penge, the 2023 Rolex Grand Final winner, will also tee it up at Quail Hollow Club after finishing third on the DP World Tour’s Asian Swing. Englishman Penge heads into the event fresh off a breakthrough victory at the Hainan Classic.
New Zealander Ryan Fox, who has two HotelPlanner Tour victories to his name, booked his spot in the field after winning his maiden PGA TOUR title at the Myrtle Beach Classic.
Elsewhere, Danish twins Rasmus and Nicolai Højgaard will both make their fourth US PGA Championship appearance, as will Belgian Thomas Detry. Laurie Canter, currently second on the Race to Dubai, will feature after receiving a special invitation. Australian Elvis Smylie is another alumni who has followed the same route into the field.
Tommy Fleetwood graduated from the HotelPlanner Tour in 2011 and has gone on to become a seven-time DP World Tour winner. He’s also in the field at Quail Hollow Club, looking for his first Major title.
The Englishman’s European Ryder Cup teammates Matt Fitzpatrick and Robert MacIntyre will both tee it up this week. Scotsman MacIntyre is playing thanks to a top ten finish at Valhalla 12 months ago, while Englishman Fitzpatrick is exempt until 2027, having won the 2022 U.S. Open.
2025 Masters Tournament runner-up Justin Rose will feature too. The 11-time DP World Tour winner tied for sixth at the 2024 US PGA Championship, seven shots back of winner Xander Schauffele.
Elsewhere, HotelPlanner Tour alumni Alex Noren, Niklas Nørgaard and Thorbjørn Olesen will tee it up in the year’s second major. Danish pair Norgaard and Olesen received invites, while Noren’s top 15 finish at Valhalla earned him playing privileges for the 2025 edition.
Brooks Koepka won three HotelPlanner Tour events during the 2013 season and has tasted victory at the US PGA Championship three times. Having most recently lifted the Wanamaker Trophy in 2023, Koepka is in field and hunting a sixth Major title.
Another alumni teeing it up at Quail Hollow is Tyrrell Hatton. The eight-time DP World Tour winner earned a spot in the field having represented Europe at the 2023 Ryder Cup. Hatton’s countrymen Aaron Rai, Matt Wallace and Richard Bland will feature too.
Two-time Major winner Martin Kaymer, who won twice on the HotelPlanner Tour in 2006, is in the field due to his past champion status. Frenchman Victor Perez, who was originally an alternate, secured his spot in the field after Sepp Straka won his second PGA TOUR event of 2025 at the Truist Championship.
South Africans Christiann Bezuidenhout, Dean Burmester, Erik van Rooyen, Garrick Higgo and Thriston Lawrence, Frenchman Matthieu Pavon, Northern Irishman Tom McKibbin and 2014 Rolex Trophy winner Byeong Hun An make up the rest of the HotelPlanner Tour alumni competing this week.
