A Major Issue

Welcome to our PGA Tour gambling-tips column, featuring picks from GOLF.com’s expert prognosticator Brady Kannon. A seasoned golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is a regular guest on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio network devoted to sports and sport betting, and is a golf betting analyst for CBS Sportsline. You can follow him on X at

, and you can read his early picks below for the PGA Championship, which gets underway on May 14 in Newtown Square, Penn.

“I intended to make this course my masterpiece, but not until today did I realize I built it better than I knew.”

Legendary golf course designer, Donald Ross, said that about Aronimink in 1948, the site of this year’s 108th PGA Championship, 20 years after opening the golf course. Legendary golf historian and master of design restoration, Gil Hanse, was brought to Newtown Square, Penn., along with his partner, Jim Wagner, in 2016 to work their magic and transform Aronimink back into major championship caliber as Ross originally intended.

More than 150 players, including 20 PGA club professionals, will make their way to the Philadelphia area next week for the second major championship of 2026. What a better place to hold one of golf’s crown jewel events than in the Birthplace of America in the year of the nation’s 250th birthday? Hot dogs, apple pie, and likely some fireworks if we can correctly land on the champion and this year’s recipient of the Wanamaker Trophy.

PGA Championship Preview

RBROWNBETS.COM: We took it on the chin pretty good with last week's golf plays, although If Matt Fitzpatrick had turned in a better final round and beat Rory McIlroy in that H2H matchup somehow we would have turned a profit. No matter, we're looking ahead. No plays on today's menu, but we are going to push the button on the Colorado Avalanche to win the Stanley Cup (+185). Even if Colorado loses tonight, the series will be tied with two of the final three games scheduled to be played in Colorado. Minnesota might be the tallest hurdle between the Avalance and this year's title. The price seems right.

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