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The 2007 British Open Coverage
Tiger Woods holds up the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 89th PGA Golf Championship at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. Tiger won his 13th major tournament with an 8-under-par. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
PGA Championship Fun Facts:
- This is the 89th PGA Championship. The first was in 1916 at the Siwanoy CC, in Bronxville, N.Y. The tournament was not played for two years during WW I.
- The first winner of the PGA Championship, Jim Barnes, received $500 for this victory. In 2006, Tiger Woods got a check for over $1.2M for hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy
- Amateur golfers are not invited to play in the PGA, as is the case with other majors. PGA club professionals are though. 20 of the 156 event entries are reserved for the lowest club professional qualifiers
- This is the 4th PGA Championship hosted by Southern Hills. Nick Price captured the 1994 PGA at Southern Hills. Raymond Floyd won there in 1982, as did Dave Stockton in 1970
- The lowest score ever recorded for a PGA winner? Ho humm… Tiger Woods at -18 in 2000. Bob May also shares that -18 record in 2000. You might recall the epic battle of these once California Junior Golf adversaries at Valhalla in Louisville. Oh, Mr. Woods also tied the record of -18 at Medinah, in 2006
- The highest score ever to win the PGA since it was changed to stroke play in 1958, was even par. Al Geiberger won the championship with that score in 1966, at the Firestone CC in Akron
- Who has won the most PGA Championships? No… not Mr. Woods…yet. The great Jack Nicklaus has his name on 5 Wanamaker trophies, as does the immortal Walter Hagen
- “Speaking” of Mr. Hagen, he was really the driving force that visualized a Professional Golfers’ Association, in 1916. Today the PGA of America is the largest working sports organization in the world
- The aforementioned Wanamaker trophy was the gift of Department Store magnate Rodman Wanamaker. Mr. Wanamaker hosted the first meeting of Hagen and 33 others who would conceive the PGA. Wanamaker also bankrolled its first championship in 1916 to the tune of $2580
- If you can’t make it to Tulsa for the 2007 PGA, you could always plan to attend the 2008 PGA at Oakland Hills CC in the Detroit area, or the 2009 PGA at Hazeltine CC in the Minneapolis area. As always, the PGA Championship is contested on the very best courses in America
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