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| The PGA Championship is no longer the Final Major |
The PGA Championship celebrates 100 years of history in
2018, and fittingly a scoring duel materialized pitting the past versus the
present. Brooks Koepka wins the 2018 tournament by two strokes over Tiger
Woods, but the scoring does not fully relate the bigger picture. The
professional golf season and its four major golf tournaments were set up so
that the PGA Championship was always the last best chance for a golfer to win a
major. Starting in 2019 the PGA Championship will be moving to a new date in
Spring, forever retiring their slogan of being Glory’s Last Shot.
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| The PGA Championship was also here in 1992 |
Part of the
reason the PGA Championship is moving underscores how the PGA Tour has morphed
over time. The PGA Championship was built to comprise one of the best fields in
golf each year, with hungry golfers looking to scratch out golfing glory. While
the PGA Tour season officially ends after the Wyndham Championship in North
Carolina this week, the Fed Ex Cup competition for 2018 will begin right after
with a series of playoff tournaments. Literally only the highest ranking
players are able to play the first event, which is a better formula for creating
a field with the best players annually.
Brooks
Koepka is 28-years old and played collegiate golf at Florida State. His first
win on the PGA Tour came in 2015, then no other wins until the summer of 2017.
If you were not paying attention to the game of golf over the last 14 months
you likely missed Koepka’s major tournament uprising. He wins the U.S. Open in
2017, and then backs that up by defending his title and winning the 2018 U.S.
Open. Two majors and one regular tournament win for Koepka at this point. Now
at the Bellerive Club in St. Louis, Koepka out-duels fan favorite Tiger Woods to
win the 2018 PGA Championship, and the exposure from battling Tiger is likely
to make Koepka the next household name in golf.
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| The PGA Championship returns to Kiawah in 2012 |
To view the entire feature story in the newspaper click on Colletonian.
To view past blog entries from the PGA Championship click on Quail Hollow at Charlotte 2017 - Ocean Course at Kiawah 2012
To view past blog entries about the RBC Heritage click 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015- 2014 - 2013
To view past blog entries from the BMW Charity Web.com click on 2018 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014
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| Tiger finished 2nd to Brooks Koepka at 2018 PGA Championship |
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