2009 PGA Championship

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The US PGA Golf Tournament
10th - 16th August 2009

The 2009 US PGA Championship will take place between the 10th – 16th August 2009 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota.

Following the wonderful battle between Harrington and Garcia in 2008, the 2009 PGA Golf Championships will feature the strongest field in golf. Since the PGA Championship is the last of the four major tournaments, the event features the most popular and
talented players in the world. At the 91st PGA Championship you can bet on the biggest names, while they compete for a winning purse of $1.3 million and the coveted Wanamaker Trophy.

The 2009 PGA Championship will feature all of the great players that you would see in the other major championships of the PGA tour. You can probably count on the likes of Phil Mickelson, and Vijay Singh among others will be putting their putters to the test on the Hazeltine National Golf course greens. Padraig Harrington will be trying to defend his title in the 2009 PGA Championship, but has struggled with swing changes this year and that was evident at the British Open, opening at -1 but finishing at +12.

Past champions include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Davis Love III, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan and Water Hagen.

Hazeltine National Golf Club

This very hilly course has narrow fairways, and small greens that are fast. Water hazards come into play on nine holes. This club hosted the 1970 and 1991 U.S. Opens, and the 2002 PGA Championship. It will also be the site of the 41st Ryder Cup in 2016.

Since 2002, Hazeltine has made a few changes to its golf course. It's been lengthened by about 400 yards. On Hole 12, a par 4, the championship tee is 40 to 50 yards back from where it was in 2002. The Par 72 golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA and opened in 1961. The course rating is 76.3 with a slope rating of 147. If the course is played all the way back, close to 7700 yards, it will make it the longest major in golf history.

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.

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2008 PGA Winner & Information

Harrington wins PGA Championship

Ireland's Padraig Harrington outlasted Spain's Sergio Garcia over the final holes Sunday at Michigan's Oakland Hills to become the first European to win the PGA Championship since Tommy Armour in 1930.

He also is just the fifth golfer ever to take the British Open and PGA back-to-back in the same year.

Tiger Woods, out for the season after knee surgery in June, managed the feat twice, in 2000 and 2006.

Harrington holed putts on the 16th (12 feet), 17th (eight feet) and 18th (18 feet) to hold off Garcia, who was playing some of his best golf in recent years.

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Some Facts and history about the PGA golf championship tour

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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