2009 PGA Championship
The 91st PGA Championship will be hosted at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., Aug. 10-16, 2009
The US PGA Tournament is the last of the four majors contested annually by the members of the PGA Tour, European PGA Tour and Japanese Golf Tour. The event is played in August and is hosted by some of the top golf courses in the United States. Winning the PGA Championship earns the golfer lifetime-qualifying status for the tournament.
The winner will also receive invitations to the 3 remaining major tournaments for the following 5 years. The winner will not have to qualify to make the PGA Tour for 5 years and will receive 5 years worth of invitations to The Players Championship.
In other words, the winner virtually secures his future on the Tour for another half a decade or more. That means there are quite a few guys on Sunday gunning for the Wanamaker Trophy and all that it secures. That also means elite golfers and pressure to finish throughout the Championship. The 91st PGA Championship is a must bet for any golf betting fan. The biggest names in golf are competing for a winning purse of $1.3 million and the coveted Wanamaker Trophy. The last us PGA Champion to win at Hazeltine was Rich Beem who beat off a charging Tiger Woods in 2002.
Past champions include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Davis Love III, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan and Water Hagen.
About Hazeltine National Golf Club
Hazeltine is ranked among the top courses in the USA. The Par-72 layout will play
to 7,149 yards. Hazeltine National Golf Club is a golf club located in Chaska, Minnesota. It is a private club and therefore closed to guests not accompanied by a member. The course opened in 1962 with Robert Trent Jones as the course architect. Because of the harsh winter climate in Minnesota, the course is open only from about April 1 to about November 1, and is closed on Mondays. The current president of the club is Tim Rainey.
Hazeltine has hosted three major professional championships, as well as numerous women’s’ pro and prestigious high school, college and amateur tournaments, and most recently hosted the 2006 U.S. Amateur Tournament in cooperation with the Chaska Town Course
Future PGA Championship venues are:
2010- Sahalee Country Club, Redmond, Wash.
2011- The Atlanta Athletic Club, Duluth, Ga.
2012- The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island, S.C |
 At the Taplow Club in New York City. On Jan. 16, 1916, a group of 35 individuals, including legendary Walter Hagen, had a meeting which resulted in the formation of the PGA of America. PGA Championship. The first PGA Championship was played in 1916 at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, N.Y. and was won by British-born professional Jim Barnes.
The event featured 31 players and the winner, earning $500 and a diamond medal. But it would be five years before an American-born PGA Professional claimed the Championship. In 1958, the format of the PGA Championship was changed from match play to stroke play. Sense the new format of the PGA tour there have been many changes with champions and prizes. In 1999, a 23-year-old named Tiger Woods became the fifth youngest winner in PGA Championship history when he outlasted Spain's 19-year-old Sergio Garcia by one stroke at Medinah (Ill.) Country Club. Rich Beem in 2002 won $990,000 for his victory in the PGA Championship, which had over 900 media credentialed to cover the event, tens of thousands of spectators in attendance, and millions watching on television around the world. Over the past eight decades, the PGA Championship has developed into one of the premier sporting events in the world.
The PGA Championship is considered one of the toughest in all of golf to win. The PGA Championship features the strongest field in major championship golf, and is contested at some of the nation's best golf courses. The USGA demands two things of its Open venues: that they be in immaculate condition, and that they offer a stiff test to the best golfers in the world. The USGA selects sites several years in advance
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2009 PGA Winner
Y.E. Yang became the first Asian-born player to win a major Sunday with a stunning performance in the PGA Championship, memorable as much for his clutch shots as the player he beat.
 The night before he went toe-to-toe with Tiger Woods in the final group in the final round of the 91st PGA Championship, unheralded Y.E. Yangventured that his odds of winning were 70-1, seeing as Woods had 70 PGA Tour victories and he had one.
Most others had the odds much longer. Somewhere in the 200-1 range.
Yet Yang was relaxed and calm enough to smile and wave to television cameras, throw golf balls to the crowd and punch the air with fist pumps throughout the final round. He shocked the best player in the world Sunday at wind-whipped Hazeltine National Golf Club to become the first Asian-born player to win a men's major golf championship. After shaking hands with Woods, the South Korean saluted his clubs by lifting his golf bag above his head as the throng of spectators rimming the final hole roared with approval.
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