Which golf courses are the majors being played at this year?

Four times a year, the greatest golfers in the world unite in their quest to write their names into golf's history books.

Three of the four major championships are held in the United States, with two of the tournaments played at different courses each year, with the other held on a links course on the British Isles.

Below, we look at the four courses that will be used for 2025's majors.

US Masters - Augusta National

Year established	1933
Previous majors held	Masters (1934-present)
Par	72
Length	7,510 yards
Location	Augusta, Georgia, United States
Course record	63 - Nick Price (1986), Greg Norman (1996)

Perhaps the most iconic course in the world, Augusta National is a venue like no other in sport. A sporting theatre that has decorated nearly all of the game's greats as its champion ever since its inception in 1934.

Closing in on its 100-year anniversary, Augusta National is the only golf course to hold a major each year and barring its postponement between 1943 and 1945, it has held the Masters every year since 1934.

Playing more than 7,500 yards, Augusta National is a beast of a course, with its hilly layout also making it a challenging walk. It's extremely rare to see short hitters contend at the US Masters; while the course is long, it's also very liberal off the tee, with wayward drives not overly punished.

Approach play is always crucial at Augusta. The quick, sloping greens mean that finding the right part of the green on approach is the only way to score, with greenside bunkers and run-off areas repelling inaccurate iron shots.

With greens so hard to find, a stellar short game is useful to have, while the lightning-fast bentgrass greens pose a challenge to even the best putters in the world.

PGA Championship - Quail Hollow

Year established	1959
Previous majors held	PGA Championship (2017)
Par	71
Length	7,600
Location	Charlotte, North Carolina
Course record	61 - Rory McIlroy (2015)

A regular PGA Tour stop as the course for the now-defunct Wells Fargo Championship, the PGA Championship returns to Quail Hollow.

The PGA Championship always requires length off the tee and Quail Hollow is no exception; clearing 7,500 yards as a par-71 makes it amongst the longest courses the players will face all year.

Historically, Quail Hollow hasn't been overly penal to wayward drives with short rough, though that may be grown out to increase the test for a major championship.

It is a classical, parkland test with several doglegs and water waiting to capture stray golf balls down the stretch.

Although the course uses Bermudagrass greens throughout the year, Poa trivialis overseeded greens will typically be used for the summer tournaments.

US Open - Oakmont

Year established	1903
Previous majors held	PGA Championship (1922, 1951, 1978), US Open (1927, 1935, 1953, 1962, 1973, 1983, 1994, 2007, 2016)
Par	71
Length	7,431
Location	Oakmont, Pennsylvania
Course record	63 - Johnny Miller (1973)

One of the toughest golf courses in the United States, the US Open returns to Oakmont in 2025.

Unlike many major championship golf courses, Oakmont's difficulty doesn't come from its length. The course isn't especially long, though the layout does mean that driver is often left in the bag on the tee, placing a premium on accuracy over distance, and with narrow fairways and lush, thick rough, wayward tee shots can equate to a half-stroke penalty.

Should you be lucky enough to avoid the rough, there are still around 175 bunkers in play and players missing greens on approach will be duly punished with tough up-and-downs.

While the putting surfaces are big, Oakmont's greens are notoriously fast; being the wrong side of the hole will leave players with gruelling downhill putts that are almost impossible to stop if you miss the hole.

The greens at Oakmont are comprised of poa annua grass, typically seen on the PGA Tour's west coast swing, and while Californians have grown up playing them, the bumpiness can make them trickier to read and putt on, and are not a favoured putting surface for most golfers.

All in all, Oakmont will test every part of a player's game.

The Open - Royal Portrush

Year established	1888
Previous majors held	The Open Championship (1951, 2019)
Par	71
Length	7,337 yards
Location	Portrush, Northern Ireland
Course record	63 - Shane Lowry (2019)

Shane Lowry is unlikely to relish his return to Oakmont, where he surrendered a four-shot lead on Sunday in 2016, but he'll certainly relish his return to Royal Portrush.

Played on the coast of Northern Ireland, Portrush saw the Irishman win his first major, winning by a whopping six shots.

As is to be expected of an Open venue, fairways and greens will be crucial to find, while players need to be adept at putting well on slow greens.

There aren't too many bunkers at Portrush, but hacking out of the lengthy fescue is no way to win a major, so being able to control your ball in the wind is paramount - as we saw with Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood finishing first and second there in 2019.