Youngest PGA Championship winners: Where 21-year-old Aldrich Potgieter would rank with 2026 major win

Youngest PGA Championship winners: Where 21-year-old Aldrich Potgieter would rank with 2026 major win originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The PGA Championship is designed to put the world's toughest golfers to the test, and Aronimink Golf Club in the greater Philadelphia region is living up to that standard and then some.

While the PGA Championship often doesn't present the same challenge as the U. S. Open, the 2026 edition looks more like a U.

S. Open with the way the course has given players fits. Surviving those challenges fairly well over the first two days was Aldrich Potgieter, who is making the first PGA Championship appearance of his career and doesn't look overwhelmed despite playing alongside so many battle-tested veterans of the sport.

Here's a look at where Potgieter would rank among the youngest winners in PGA Championship history. PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HQ: Live leaderboard | Tee times | TV schedule Youngest PGA Championship winners Here are the seven youngest winners in PGA Championship history: Golfer Age Year Gene Sarazen 20 1922 Tom Creavy 20 1931 Gene Sarazen 21 1923 Rory McIlroy 23 2012 Collin Morikawa 23 2020 Jack Nicklaus 23 1963 Tiger Woods 23 1999 Gene Sarazen is the youngest PGA Championship winner, having won in 1922 at age 20, and he came back and won the following year at 21 to put himself near the top of the leaderboard twice. Only Tom Creavy (1931) can join Sarazen in winning the PGA Championship at less than 21 years old.