John Daly will not be competing in the PGA Championship this week, which is being held in Charlotte, North Carolina. Daly won the PGA Championship back in 1991, securing his first major win. Instead, Daly will compete in the Regions Tradition tournament -- a major on the Champions Tour. The tournament is being held in Birmingham, Alabama.

John Daly, battling health struggles, has decided to skip the PGA Championship next week and offered a glimpse into his questionable condition.

John Daly will forgo the PGA Championship next week and focus on the PGA Tour Champions major, the Tradition, instead. He took issue with the schedule.

“I’m like Lazarus — I keep coming back from the dead,” Daly said. “Waking up is a win for me.” Daly is still determined to play on the senior PGA Tour Champions circuit, even skipping next week’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow to play on PGA Tour Champions’ first major of the year, The Tradition in Birmingham, Ala.

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The PGA Championship is the same week as the PGA Tour Champions' first major. And Daly is deciding to tee it up with his peers.

John Daly plans to tee it up in a major next week, just not at the PGA Championship . The biggest quirk of the 2025 schedule is that the Regions Tradition in Birmingham, Alabama — the first of five majors on the PGA Tour Champions — is the same week as the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The PGA Championship has produced a long list of big-name winners over the last 20 years. But the long shots in the field this week can still hold out some hope by looking back on John Daly and Rich Beem and picturing themselves holding the Wanamaker Trophy over their heads on Sunday.