This week is Major #2 for the men . . . The PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Put on by the PGA of America, the field includes 20 of their members who earned a spot in qualifying tournaments. First played in 1916, when ‘Long’ Jim Barnes was the Champion. Jim earned $500 for his efforts while this year’s winner will take home over $3 million.
Conducted as a match play event through 1957, it was converted to stroke play in 1958 for the usual reasons, TV ratings and money. Dow Finsterwald lost to Lionel Herbert in the final Match Play running, 2 & 1 . . . but he was champion the following year in the first stroke play version, winning by two shots.
Part of the Grand Slam of golf, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and Jordan Spieth need(ed) the PGA to join that exclusive club. Held for just the second time at Quail Hollow, the last time was 2017 where Justin Thomas won the first of his two Wanamaker Trophies. If you need help with your picks, JT was T2 last week and Rory has multiple wins on this course . . . but then how many of us picked Sepp Straka?
FUN FACT: The Wanamaker Trophy weighs 27 pounds and is two and half feet tall . . . and Walter Hagen lost it! He told a taxi driver to take to his hotel and it never showed up. It was missing for a few years until it was discovered in the basement of the company that made his clubs.
Four and an Alt
Slinger
Player 1
Player 2
Player 3
Player 4
Alternate
TOTAL
Scrums
Metro
McIlroy
Scheffler
Lowry
Fleetwood
THOMAS
Max
Hovland
Im
Niemann
Reed
SCHEFFLER
Phil
DeChambeau
Rahm
Schauffele
Cantlay
SCHEFFLER
Wendy
JJ
Scheffler
DeChambeau
Åberg
Morikawa
SCHAUFFELE
Deb
McIlroy
DeChambeau
Scheffler
Thomas
SCHAUFFELE
EMC
DeChambeau
Garcia
Johnson D
Smith C
McCARTHY
Taf
Hedge
MX2
Scheffler
McIlroy
Schauffele
Thomas
CANTLAY
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