Talk:2008 PGA Championship

Invitations

The PGA of America does not announce how it determines who it invites (category 11) but the Official World Golf Rankings are obviously important. Possible categories:

• Top 100 in OWGR as of July 27, 2008 [1]

Lee Westwood (18), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (20), Robert Karlsson (22), Graeme McDowell (29), Martin Kaymer (33), Søren Hansen (41), Paul Casey (42), Richard Green (45), Oliver Wilson (47), Niclas Fasth (49), Ross Fisher (52), Shingo Katayama (53), Nick O'Hern (54), Toru Taniguchi (62), Nick Dougherty (65), Jeev Milkha Singh (66), Brendan Jones (68), Mark Brown (70), James Kingston (71), Prayad Marksaeng (73), Hennie Otto (75), Ben Curtis (77), Charles Howell III (79), Colin Montgomerie (83), Søren Kjeldsen (84), Peter Hanson (86), Ben Crane (87), Jyoti Randhawa (88), Steve Webster (91), Charl Schwartzel (92), Bubba Watson (94), Jonathan Byrd (96), Alastair Forsyth (97), Jason Bohn (98), Peter Hedblom (99)

Missing only Richard Sterne (63)

• Top 100 in OWGR as of July 20, 2008 [2]

Louis Oosthuizen (100)

• Top 100 in OWGR as of July 13, 2008 [3]

Scott Strange (99)

• Top finishers in current year's majors

Greg Norman - T3 - British Open (only Top 5 finisher not already eligible/invited through OWGR)

• Top 15 on European Tour Order of Merit as of July 27, 2008

Pablo Larrazábal (14th)

• Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup notables

Tom Lehman (2006 Ryder Cup captain), Corey Pavin (2006 Ryder Cup asstistant captain), Fred Couples (2008 Presidents Cup)

• Others – notable 2008 achievements

Darren Clarke – won BMW Asian Open, Hiroyuki Fujita – won Pine Valley Beijing Open

Tewapack (talk) 22:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)