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Video: Tiger Woods Wins 2007 PGA Championship for 13th MajorOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Apr 20
By rss@youtube.com (TGAofAmerica) Author: TGAofAmerica Keywords: Golf gifts tournament tee bags hole-in-one insurance golf prizes Added: April 20, 2009
Video: Seaview Marriott Resort and Spa - Atlantic City Golf CourseOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 3
By rss@youtube.com (AtlanticCityGolf) The Bay Course which opened in 1914 is a textbook Donald Ross seaside course, which means it has a Scottish Links-style feel. The Bay course hosted the 1942 PGA Championship. It was during this Championship that Sam Snead won his first Major. The course features classic mounding, high-face...
Video: PGA TOUR Today: 2008 PGA Championship - Friday recapOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Aug 13
By rss@youtube.com (pgatour) PGATOUR.com's Win McMurry recaps the second round action from Oakland Hills C.C. and the '08 PGA Championship Author: pgatour Keywords: pga pgatour golf sports major championship jb holmes phil mickelson charlie wi ben curtis justin rose Added: August 13, 2008
Video: Major Moments - PGA Championship PreviewOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Aug 6
By rss@youtube.com (golf) Coming to you from the 9th green at the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, Rex Hoggard and Alex Miceli discuss this week's big event and the Ryder Cup standings.
Tiger Woods Slumping? Ha!
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Wed, Sep 2
The Incredibly Shrinking Presence let the PGA Championship get away last month, finishing second to Y.E. Yang and ending a streak of 14 consecutive major championship wins when owning at least a share of the 54-hole lead. On Sunday in the opening week of FedEx Cup play at The Barclays, he fini...
Ranking the Major Championships
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Wed, Aug 19
by Ryan WilsonFiled under: British Open, PGA, US Open, Masters, PGA Championship In reverse order, the most exciting majors of 2009:Ranking the Major Championships originally appeared on Golf FanHouse on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Y.E. Yang: Who Is the PGA Champ?
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Sun, Aug 16
As you now know, Y.E. Yang is the 2009 PGA champion after taking out Tiger Woods at the final major of the year in absolutely heroic fashion. The problem is, the everyday sports fan doesn't even know who this Yang guy is. So, here are some things you should know about your new major champion.Y.E. Yang...
Y.E. Yang Beats Tiger Woods at PGA
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Sun, Aug 16
He's the first Asian-born player to ever win a major, and he did it in a style that had even the most random sports fans rooting for a man they didn't even know existed on Thursday. The question people will be asking is, how did he do it? More: Final-Round Leaderboard | Yang's Scorecard | Tiger'...
Will Tiger Woods Actually Lose? The Answer May Be Blowing in Wind
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Sun, Aug 16
It's a stat that almost seems inflated. In major championships, the toughest golf tournaments with the toughest fields in the world, Tiger Woods, the best golfer of the best in the world, is 14-for-14 when leading after 54 holes. He's never lost. Never.
FanHouse Experts Pick PGA Champ
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Wed, Aug 12
It's the final major of the season, and with that comes the golf regulars picking who they think might win at Hazeltine National. It is Tiger's tournament to lose, but there are a lot of hungry players hoping to upset the world's best at the lengthy track. Can Tiger take his 15th major? Will Phi...
Handicapping Hazeltine: The Favorites
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Wed, Aug 12
Just as we did with Augusta, Bethpage Black, and Turnberry, we present your Regular Joes who will have a good chance at the PGA Championship. Hazeltine National is hosting its first major since the 2002 PGA Championship, and has been extended to a ghastly 7,678 yards of pure major champion...
Back In the Swing
Original at Hartford Courant
• Mon, Aug 10
Back from vacation, and what's the first thing I see? Tiger Woods winning again at Firestone. They ought to name it "Woods Country Club." Is the game's best player going to win his first major at the PGA Championship this week? Interesting question to ponder because every time he tees it up,...
Tiger Woods Commits to Buick Open
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Thu, Jul 23
First, Tiger's schedule is pretty cemented during the year, so a visit to the Buick Open, which he hasn't played in since 2006, is surprising. Second, Woods never plays three tournaments in a row, especially before a major. Being in the field at Warwick Hills means Tiger will most likely pla...
Major Championship Disappointments
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Tue, Jul 21
With the 2009 British Open in our rear view, a lot of talk is about what could have been. A 59-year-old man had a chance to win a major championship against the best golfers in the world, and was one swing away from doing so. So, where does this tournament rank in major championship disappointme...
At Bethpage, Casey Seems Poised to Bag His First Major Title
Original at New York Times
• Tue, Jun 16
United States He won the Houston Open in April, beating JB Holmes on the first hole of sudden death and becoming just the sixth Englishman to win on the PGA Tour. In May, he holed a pressure-packed 7-foot putt at Wentworth to win the BMW PGA Championship, ...
2009 US Open: PGA Golf Championship Betting Odds and Picks - Sportsbook PromotionsOriginal at sportsbookbettingpromotions.com
• Tue, Jun 16
Padraig Harrington, who finished T-8. Of course, the Irishman has gone on to win three majors since then with back-to-back wins in the British Open, as well as last year's PGA Championship. The US Open is the only major that Harrington didn't come away ...
Casey desperate to end English drought
Original at google.com
• Tue, Jun 16
the first Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970 would be a greater achievement than doing the same at either the Masters or US PGA Championship as it would have been done in a major he considers "the toughest test in golf". ...
DirecTV to Provide Expanded Interactive TV Coverage of This Week's ...
Original at itvt.com
• Tue, Jun 16
CA DirecTV says that the US Open is one of four major golf events--the others being the Masters, the PGA Championship and the British Open--for which it is offering expanded interactive TV coverage this year.
Perry's major near-misses not bringing him down
Original at google.com
• Tue, Jun 16
How about the 1996 PGA Championship at Valhalla, when his two-shot lead on the 72nd hole turned into a sudden-death loss, on his native Kentucky soil no less? "Had that deal done, too," Perry said. That's Perry. No complaints about what might have been ...
Weaver adjusts schedule for US Open - High Point Enterprise
Original at hpe.southernheadlines.com
• Mon, Jun 15
The 22-year-old member of High Point Country Club will be playing in his third major, the most possible for an amateur since the PGA Championship allows only pros. He participated in the 2007 British Open and 2008 Masters after qualifying by winning ...
Perry's major appetite whetted by Masters meltdown
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Mon, Jun 15
UK I've been down a few times," added Perry, who also lost a major playoff at the 1996 PGA Championship to fellow American Mark Brooks. "Kind of like '96, I had that deal done too at the PGA but I just did not quite finish it out. ...
109th US Open Championship Preview
Original at seattlepi.com
• Mon, Jun 15
Harrington won the 2007 British Open to become his continent's first major winner since Paul Lawrie at the 1999 British. He also claimed last year's British Open and PGA Championship to give him three of the last seven majors. The steady Irishman has a ... Newsday - Golf Channel
Casey at 33-1 is major wager
Original at Times Online Blogs
• Mon, Jun 15
UK The successes of fellow European Padraig Harrington in winning back-to-back majors in the Open and US PGA Championship last year will further embolden Casey. Tiger Woods is a general 2-1 to add a fourth US Open to his CV on a course where he led from ...
Padraig Harrington 2009 US Open Betting Odds
Original at Gambling911.com
• Mon, Jun 15
FL In addition to his two big British Open wins in 2007 and 2008, respectively, Harrington also won last year's PGA Championship. We at Gambling911.com don't have to tell our readers just how good Harrington is. Triple major champion Padraig Harrington ...
US Open Betting: Phil Mickelson Payout Odds at $1000
Original at Gambling911.com
• Sun, Jun 14
100 or $100 to win $1000 and - if you're daring enough - $1000 to win $10000! Mickelson has performed well in a number of tournaments he's appeared in. He won three major championships including the 2004 and 2006 Masters and the 2005 PGA Championship. PGA Tour - AFP
Ikeda claims first victory at Japan PGA Championship
Original at The Japan Times
• Sun, Jun 14
PGA of Australia Japan Ikeda, who was in title contention at last week's Japan Golf Tour Championship before fading in the final round of the year's first major with a 78, saw his lead cut to two strokes after making three birdies against a pair of bogeys in the third round. ...
Rookie Nordqvist still in front
Original at Golf365.co.za
• Sun, Jun 14
UK the ice-cool 22-year-old Swede was one shot in front of Australian Lindsay Wright when play ended in the third round of the season's second women's major, the McDonald's PGA Championship, at the Bull Rock Golf Club in Havre de Grace, Maryland, ...
Nationwide Tour offers cross-section
Original at Arkansas News
• Sat, Jun 13
AR Both Bob May and Len Mattiace lost major championships in playoffs — May to Tiger Woods in a PGA Championship and Mattiace to Mike Weir in a Masters. Top 10 money winners on the Nationwide who might not be familiar include 30-year-old South African ...
Wi Qualifies for US Open
Original at KOLO
• Sat, Jun 13
NV It'll be just the second major appearance of his career. Wi finished 9th in the 2008 PGA Championship. He's won seven professional events, but he has never won a PGA Tour event. Wi played golf as a freshman at the University of Nevada. ...
Phil Mickelson has had success and disappointment in New York area ...
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Sat, Jun 13
2005 PGA Championship, Baltusrol: Mickelson slept on the lead for four nights -- Garden State storms forced a Monday finish -- but showed barely a drop of stress. He clinched his second major championship with a gorgeous and clutch flop shot to three ...
Woods going for a repeat in US Open, at Bethpage
Original at google.com
• Fri, Jun 12
Bobby Jones (US Open and British Open) and Walter Hagen (British Open and PGA Championship) are the only other players who have repeated in more than one major. Strange has been fielding questions about his distinction since 2001, and he is surprised ...
Ikeda shares lead at Japan PGA
Original at The Japan Times
• Fri, Jun 12
Japan ENIWA, Hokkaido (Kyodo) Unheralded Yuta Ikeda fired a 5-under-par 65 Friday for a three-way share of the lead in the first round at the Japan PGA Championship, the second major of the season. The 23-year-old Ikeda, who is seeking his first career title ...
DIRECTV announces offering interactive coverage of US Open
Original at WorldGolf.com
• Fri, Jun 12
AZ The US Open, to be held this year at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, NY, is one of four major golf events, including the Masters, PGA Championship and the British Open, at which DIRECTV will showcase its expanded, ...
Casey to spearhead Euro bid at US Open
Original at google.com
• Fri, Jun 12
Casey's win in the BMW PGA Championship last month was his third of the year and it sent him soaring up the world rankings to a career-best third. Only Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are ahead of him. He says he is now ready to finally win a major ... Major focus for Harrington Golf News
Woods going for a repeat in US Open, at Bethpage
Original at USA Today
• Thu, Jun 11
Bobby Jones (US Open and British Open) and Walter Hagen (British Open and US PGA Championship) are the only other players who have repeated in more than one major. Strange has been fielding questions about his distinction since 2001, ...
3M Championship golf tourney expects big crowds, lured by free tickets
Original at Pioneer Press
• Thu, Jun 11
Among 11 first-time entries are former major championship winners Nick Price, Mark O'Meara and Larry Mize, plus Hal Sutton and Fred Funk, the darling of the Cavner said the decision to offer free admission had nothing to do with the PGA Championship ...
Mickelson four shots behind leader Brian Gay
Original at ESPN
• Thu, Jun 11
He turned pro in 1987, won the 1991 PGA Championship with a mullet (and as the ninth and final alternate), won a second major (the British Open) in 1995 and has won exactly one time stateside since. He leaves debris wherever he goes: marriages, ... John Daly Through the Years Golf.com
DIRECTV Atop the Pay TV Leader Board With Four days of Exclusive ...
Original at WELT ONLINE
• Wed, Jun 10
NY, is one of four major golf events, including the Masters, PGA Championship and the British Open, at which DIRECTV will showcase its expanded, ... and more »
PGA Odds: 2009 US Open Golf Championship Odds to Win – Tiger Woods ...
Original at The Spread
• Mon, Jun 8
Woods currently has 14 wins in Major Championships, including four at the Masters, three at the US Open, three at the Open Championship and four at the PGA Championship. In total, he has 91 professional wins since turning professional in 1996. ...
Still Looking for Some Good Sportsmanship? Try Tennis and Golf
Original at American Chronicle
• Mon, Jun 8
CA On the flip side, three-time major champion Vijay Singh still lives with the stigma that he allegedly doctored his scorecard in the Malaysian PGA Championship 25 years ago. Henry's favorite story involves JP Hayes, the PGA Tour journeyman who ...
Tiger Never Lets Us Down
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Sun, Jun 7
Then came the PGA Championship at Medinah, where he took down Sergio Garcia in one of the more exciting final rounds of a major championship in the last 10 years.Tiger Never Lets Us Down originally appeared on Golf FanHouse on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:40:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Curtis sticks with routine for US Open
Original at Akron Beacon Journal
• Sun, Jun 7
OH Besides his 2003 British Open victory, his best finish in a major came last year, when he tied for second in the PGA Championship and earned a spot on the US Ryder Cup team. ''I'll just play nine holes two or three days and go for it,'' Curtis said of ...
Golfing Stars Coming To Minnesota for the PGA Championship - How ... - About
Original at minneapolis.about.com
• Sat, Jun 6
This year, the 91st PGA Championships, one of golf's four major championships, will be held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, in the south west suburbs. The event will be held August 10-16, and tickets are available now from the PGA's website ...
US Open Odds: Phil Mickelson plans return
Original at Odds.com
• Tue, Jun 2
Also known as "Lefty", Mickelson has won 36 PGA Tour events including three majors. His first major win came in the 2004 Masters followed by the 2005 PGA Championship followed by his second Masters win in 2006. Mickelson's most memorable performance in ...
Opinion: Golf Capsules
Original at SI.com
• Sun, May 24
shots in the Senior PGA Championship - the first Champions Tour major of the season. Winless in two decades on the PGA Tour, Allen won in his senior debut. He opened with rounds of 74, 66 and 67 and finished at 6-under 274 on the Canterbury course. ...
Doug Bauman downs Mike Troy in IPGA match final, 3 & 2
Original at Chicagoland Golf
• Thu, May 21
IL This is Bauman's third match play title (1994, 1991) and fifth Illinois PGA major title (Illinois PGA Championship in 1996, 1997) in his career. The 13-seeded Bauman, jumped out to an early 3-up lead in the match with the help of two birdies and a par. ...
Byron Nelson Championship
Original at AthlonSports.com
• Wed, May 20
The HP Byron Nelson Championship is named after the larger than life Texan with 52 career PGA Tour victories, five major championships — 1937 Masters, 1939 US Open, 1940 PGA Championship, 1942 Masters and 1945 PGA Championship — and the longest winning ... HP Byron Nelson, Round 1 PGA Tour
Phil seeking a different kind of win
Original at ESPN
• Wed, May 20
At Phil's second of three career major victories, the 2005 PGA Championship, then-2-year-old Evan provided perhaps the most memorable image of the week, bounding around No. 18 at Baltusrol in oblivious celebration to the delight of thousands of ... Bunker Shots Golf Channel
Preview and picks from the Players Championship
Original at GolfObserver.com
• Tue, May 5
VA - Sal Johnson PGA Tour settles in at Sawgrass for 36th Players Championship PGA.com Garcia hopes for game-lifting week again at THE PLAYERS PGA Tour Tiger Woods Wants to Win Fifth Major Again Bleacher Report Golf.com - PGA Tour
Major is the only blip on Casey's solid resume
Original at Golfonline
• Tue, May 5
UK Casey opted to turn pro and join the European Tour in 2001, where a victory in the Scottish PGA Championship helped him to be crowned the Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year. More titles proved harder to come by over the next few years, although alongside ...
Will Perry be remembered for Masters failure?
Original at Golfonline
• Tue, Apr 28
UK The result lifted Perry to fifth in the Official World Golf Rankings, alongside matching his best ever finish in a major. Back in 1996, it was a play-off that undid Perry again, when he lost to Mark Brooks at the PGA Championship. In his early days, ...
'Scoring at majors often dictated by course setup'
Original at The Punch
• Fri, Apr 17
Nigeria By Agency Reporter Padraig Harrington, winner of two British Opens and a PGA Championship, has a theory about major championships. “The committee,” he told USA TODAY on Thursday, meaning the people who set up the golf course, “can make the score ...
Larry Nelson cruises to first-round lead at Outback Steakhouse Pro ...
Original at Tampabay.com
• Fri, Apr 17
head south in 2005 when he said he tried to add length to compete on the PGA Tour. He joined the senior circuit in 2007, but the three-time major winner didn't find things any easier. He did finish third at the Senior PGA Championship as a rookie. ...
Las Vegas Golf's Second Major Championship Stays One 7-Iron Away ...
Original at GolfLasVegasNow.com
• Mon, Apr 13
who now play golf's major tours, and it's only a matter of time before a Las Vegas golfer wears a green jacket, sips from the Claret Jug, or slams home a PGA Championship (remember Bob May, who battled Tiger in 2000 at the PGA Championship? ...
Final Round Viewer's Guide
Original at Golf Channel
• Sat, Apr 11
His best final round in a major is 67, shot at the 1998 PGA Championship at Sahalee, where he tied for 34th. Woods and Mickelson have played together 23 times in PGA Tour events. Woods' scoring average is 69.00 compared with Mickelson's 70.26 in those ...
Viewer's Guide
Original at Golf Channel
• Fri, Apr 10
four months old when he won the PGA Championship at Pecan Valley Country Club in 1948. Perry isn't typically at the top of the list in conversations about who's the best player who hasn't won a major, but maybe he should be with 13 PGA Tour titles. ...
Veiwer's Guide
Original at Golf Channel
• Thu, Apr 9
Times Online With his 69, Padraig Harrington, seeking to win his third consecutive major championship, is tied for 14th. That’sa better first-round position than he had when he won the British Open (T-38) and PGA Championship (T-16) last summer. ...
Padraig Harrington vs Geoff Ogilvy 2009 Masters Odds
Original at Odds.com
• Wed, Apr 8
FL Think you can pick the winner between Harrington and Ogilvy? Try your luck now, at betus.com, and gear up for the first major tournament of the season: the 2009 Masters Odds! With victories at the 2008 British Open and last year’s PGA Championship, ...
Vijay Singh Odds to Win the Masters
Original at BetFirms
• Tue, Apr 7
IA Singh has had a pretty nice run at major championships, with 3 wins and 22 top 10 finishes, but he did fail to make the cut at both the British Open and PGA Championship last year. Singh did respond late in 2008 with wins at the Barclays and the ... I have a dream - Big Easy Independent Online
Sergio Garcia Odds to Win the Masters
Original at BetFirms
• Mon, Apr 6
IA Garcia once again let a major slip away from him at the 2008 PGA Championship, as he had a lead going into the final 9 holes, but was unable to hold on and wound up finishing two strokes back to the eventual champion Padraig Harrington. ...
Putting and strategy key in Masters plan
Original at irishtimes.com
• Fri, Apr 3
Ireland Pádraig Harrington exhibits his 'assassin's stare' on the 18th hole during the final round of last year's US PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club, Michigan, where he won his third major. - (Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images) YOU LOOK into ...
14 things to watch: Contenders, pretenders
Original at AthlonSports.com
• Thu, Apr 2
TN Singh got some TV time in the US in August when he took a share of the first-round lead at the PGA Championship, where he ultimately finished tied for ninth. It wouldn’t be surprising at all if he cracked the top 10 at other major championships in 2009 ...
Sergio still on major mission
Original at Golfonline
• Mon, Mar 30
UK It was an erratic short game which handed last year's US PGA Championship to Padraig Harrington, but Garcia has pledged to continue to work on this aspect of his game, swapping equipment and meddling with his technique until the magic, major-winning ...
Live from the PGA
Original at AthlonSports.com
• Sat, Mar 7
TN Over the course of the weekend, AthlonSports.com will be “Live from the PGA” with still photos of the day’s major championship golf. The following pictures are from Thursday's action: Fans gather on a hill to watch the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland ... Second Round AthlonSports.com
Ogilvy Gets His Due
Original at Golf Channel
• Fri, Mar 6
Philip writes: “You could also mention that to warm up for the PGA Tour, he (Ogilvy) won his first major event on home soil in December by winning the Australian PGA Championship. The man is on fire.” THE COMERBACKER: In the immortal words of Golf ...
Better than ever?
Original at AthlonSports.com
• Fri, Feb 20
The numbers for the final major of the season, the PGA Championship, dropped 55 percent from the previous year when Woods won at Southern Hills. In short, the landscape changed dramatically with Woods out of the picture, both inside and outside the ...
Harrington primed for new golf season
Original at Golfonline
• Thu, Jan 15
UK - The Wilson Staff star won his second and third major last year, retaining the Open Championship before winning the US PGA Championship at Oakland Hills. ...
Aussie golf star linked to Hollywood actress
Original at Golfonline
• Wed, Jan 14
UK - 12 European and US PGA Tour victories to his name, is still searching for his first major, having finished tied for third at the 2006 PGA Championship.
Story 3 - Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Original at Golf Channel
• Fri, Dec 26
- Less than a month later Harrington delivered the sequel, a 5-iron bullet to 10 feet at the 71st hole of the PGA Championship that sank Sergio Garcia’s major ...
Story 7: The Rise of Sergio
Original at Golf Channel
• Thu, Dec 18
- A heartbreaking loss at the PGA Championship, where Harrington put on one of the greatest displays of clutch putting in major championship history. ...
2008 European Tour Year In Review
Original at Sports Network
• Mon, Dec 15
PGA of Australia - Dec 15, 2008 Padraig Harrington repeated as champion at the British Open, then won his second straight major championship crown at the PGA Championship. ... Brown claims 2008 Australasian OOM Crown iseekgolf.com all 17 news articles
Golf's Winners and Losers of 2008
Original at The FanHouse - AOL
• Wed, Oct 22
Winners Phil Mickelson -- He did win twice, but that is beside the point. Mickelson is one of the top-3 golfers in the world and his year is measured in major championships. Lefty had a decent finish at the Masters, a t-5, but he only broke 70 three times in 12 major championship rounds, never mo...
Thoughts on the Open Championship
Original at fairwaysgolf.ca
• Wed, Sep 17
By Peter Mumford Where was World # 2 Phat Phil and his major championship brain trust and entourage? Whatever they came up with this time didn’t work either. Two drivers, no drivers. Maybe they’ll carry three putters and an extra baffler in the PGA Championship.
Your PGA Championship Preview
Original at Deadspin
• Wed, Aug 8
By Leitch The final "Major" "Championship" kicks off this weekend, the PGA Championship. It's at the Southern Hills Country Club, which is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-- It would be hard to understand how weird 2007 would be if Tiger Woods finished without a major title.
Lefty, Tiger will forever be linked
Original at Asbury Park Press
• Sun, Apr 1
There were no limits to the greatness Phil Mickelson was going to achieve when he turned pro back in the summer of 1992. Major championships, titles on the PGA Tour, the history book -- they were all there for the taking. This was a guy who won a PGA Tour event while he was still an amateur jugglin...