Bryson DeChambeau is relishing the prospect of another major showdown with Rory McIlroy at the PGA Championship following the pair's epic clash at the Masters. 

DeChambeau emerged as the biggest threat to McIlroy's Augusta dream when he got within two shots of the Northern Irishman through three rounds to set up a thrilling last day.

And having beaten McIlroy at the US Open, DeChambeau fell off the pace, which allowed the 36-year-old to beat compatriot Justin Rose in a dramatic play-off win. 

In winning the Masters, McIlroy became only the sixth player, after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to win a career grand slam. 

McIlroy will also aim to become only the third golfer since the turn of the century to win the first two majors in a calendar year, after Woods (2002) and Jordan Spieth (2015).

But DeChambeau, who has had three top five finishes in his last four PGA Championships, is hoping to better McIlroy at Quail Hollow this week. 

"I do believe you have to have a lot of distance out here," said DeChambeau. "Rory is a great driver of the golf ball and his iron play is great, too.

"I think it's a golf course that sets up for his shot shapes pretty well, and I think it sets up well for mine, too. We'll see. Maybe I do well, maybe I don't.

"But I'm certainly going to give it my all, and I know Rory is. Hopefully we can have another go at it again like The Masters."

It was a battle all week, and even without my best stuff, I proved to myself that I have the ability to win this tournament one day. It’s tough, but moments like this have taught me a lot and now I’m more motivated than ever to get back to work. Thank you all for the unwavering… pic.twitter.com/bwZZ6Ibdk9

— Bryson DeChambeau (@brysondech) April 14, 2025

DeChambeau has reasserted himself among the favourites heading into recent major events, but has only clinched one, which came at the US Open last year. 

However, one major could have been two in 2024 were it not for Xander Schauffele, who ousted DeChambeau by one stroke to win the PGA Championship in Louisville.

Indeed, Schauffele is aiming to become only the third player to win back-to-back PGA Championships in the stroke play era (since 1958), after Woods and Brooks Koepka.

But DeChambeau believes this could be his year, saying: "I feel like I've always had the capacity to play well in major championships and contend consistently. 

"A lot of things have to go right in majors for you to play well. Your whole game has to be on. 

"So I felt like at Valhalla, especially after Augusta, that was the second time that I played well in a major, and it kind of gave me that confidence that I could just keep moving forward with that at every major and keep hammering down on majors.

"Besides the Open Championship, which I feel like is something I've got to continue to work on, which I am rigorously working on, I feel like I'm moving in the right direction by giving myself a lot of multiple chances to win these major championships.

"So I felt like at Valhalla last year, it was more of an assurance of saying, hey, I can do this, and I can do this for a long time, God willing. I'm going to continue to try and play my best golf."