Talk:PGA Championship

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Format

I find this page incredibly difficult to read, as compared to the comparable list at the U.S. Open page. Would it be safe to say that we should not make links to these courses until there are articles to read?

I disagree, red links encourage people to start articles. I will put this into table form eventually - two separate tables for the strokeplay and matchplay eras. Osomec 29 June 2005 15:01 (UTC)

I am not quite sure what the fetish is for the little flags and icons all over Wikipedia recently, but I think that the flags on this page, combined with the round-by-round scores for several of the tournaments, have made the chart much harder to read and less attractive, since the information doesn't fit onto one line anymore, at least on my 1024x768 screen. Thoughts?

Qualification

I've added the qualification as per the official site, with references to specific years removed. It does not state that they invite the World Top 50, which I have read elsewhere that all the majors do. If they don't invite the top 50, they must use quite a few invitations for leading non-PGA Tour players. I would like to say something one way or another in the article. Does anyone know more? Osomec 7 July 2005 17:19 (UTC)

Courses

I have tried to put in as many of the "official" names for the courses used for this event as I could, but I have run into a number of difficulties. For example, the events in 1928, 1927, 1926 and 1924 were at courses that do not exist anymore, at least under the name as the article originally listed them (if my memory serves me correctly). Although just about all of the U.S. Open venues are still open, and apparently under their original names, I have found doing research for this event more challenging and would like to encourage more expert golf historians to scrutinize my efforts. I gave up working on it for a time when one of the events (I forget what year since it has been a few weeks since I fiddled with it) was played at a venue for which I could find no other information, and so I am going to cede work on this front to people with more skill than I as far as the Match Play era of the event, and will make a go of it again with the stroke play. To that end, though, I think for this article in particular (it seems to be less of an issue with the U.S. Open), we should decide if we want the name of the venue to be listed as it was at the time it was played, or the name as it is known now. I lean towards the "as it was known then" approach, although that may be difficult to verify with total accuracy (e.g., is a venue now known as Weemake Bigbucks Golf Resort once known as Weemake Bigbucks Country Club?).

Addendum: I have done a considerable amount of research trying to determine exactly where the Shawnee Inn is. Its address is listed as Shawnee-on-Delaware, but as it turns out that is not a defined place; it is the town name to list when writing to certain P.O. Boxes. Shawnee-on-Delaware does not appear to exist as a legally defined entity, and the Census Bureau does not recognize it as a CDP. Furthermore, addresses that have Shawnee-on-Delaware as a town can only be sent to a P.O. Box, not physical street addresses. In fact, as near as I can tell, there aren't any standardized street addresses to be found in that area; the only option is the P.O. Box. My research indicates that the area is within the legal limits of Springfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; although this is not the mailing address, is there support for making an exception to the general principle of using the venue's mailing address for this circumstance?

I think the main thing is to link to a place we have an article about. Apparently we have articles for all "census designated places" in the US. Osomec 07:16, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As I noted, however, Shawnee-on-Delaware is not even a census designated place. It is the only postal destination I have ever encountered that exists as neither an incorporated municipality or CDP. Hence my consternation.

Typo! It's Smithfield Township, not Springfield. My fault.

Off topic but relevant

Is it just me, or don't you think that Sahalee should be awarded the 2013 or 2014 PGA, because it won't get the 2010 because of the Winter Olympics. --fpo 16:31, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

I believe when the PGA of America announced they were bailing on Sahalee for 2010, they said they were going to bring it back there shortly thereafter. I certainly think it is a deserving venue. AppleFan84 20:48, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

2007 Winner

There should not be a name in the chart for a winner this year. It has not been played. I am removing it if I can. thekingishere26 (not signed in)

Whoever keeps putting a winner in before the tournament is over, please stop doing so. I've edited the article to remove the name again. Calathan 19:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2010 championship, PGA cheating & the Dustin Mulligan

With Martin Kaymer just winning, I want to review for inclusion in the article the cheating by the PGA in this fashion you all saw; Dustin Johnson lost 2 strokes by penality for grounding his club in a bunker that no one including him, the viewing public and all the talking head pro's announcing could discern was a bunker. That ruling put him out of the playoff BUT since no one could discern it was a bunkier, then the 2 stroke penalty was ONLY fair IF the PGA had announced ahead of the tournament THAT the entire Whistling Stairts golf course WAS a bunker to warn all the players. And since they did not do that (though they did warn about this issue), they, the PGA, still cheated and esp cheated Dustin Johnson... who then deserves to be given the SAME money as the winner to make up for this clear cheating by the PGA. AND also for this tournment since this situation is so bad, they should show from NOW ON always use an asterisk that Dustin Johnson AND also Bubba were all 3 "co winners" with Kaymer, also paying Bubba the same winner's purse as the only way to cure this bad chearing by the PGA.... /s/ Jack Mulligan Nicklaus Sr aka Dusty Mulligan 69.121.221.97 (talk) 00:44, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If the incident is to be mentioned it will be done in a neutral fashion and referenced properly. Thanks. _wjemather ^bigissue 09:14, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wanamaker Trophy

At the conclusion of this years PGA Championship, I came to this page looking for information on the Wanamaker Trophy. Although the page on Rodman Wanamaker has brief details on the origin of the prize, there is very little on the actual silver trophy, which is rather impressive. If there is more information on the actual trophy, I think it should be added to this page. If people think this information will clutter this page, perhaps a separate page can be created.

Link to BMW PGA Championship

The European Tour's BMW PGA Championship held at Wentworth is popularly just known as the 'PGA Championship' too - I suggest putting a link to that article at the top of this one in case anyone comes here searching for it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.15.94 (talk) 13:56, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Schedule/dates

The PGA Championship is no longer held the 4th weekend after The Open Championship. With the advent of the FedEx Cup, the format that's being used is that it is the 3rd weekend prior to Labor Day weekend. The Deutsche Bank Championship (2nd leg of the FedEx Cup) is always Labor Day weekend; The Barclays (1st leg of the FedEx Cup) is the prior weekend; the PGA Tour's regular-season finale (currently the Wyndham Championship) is the 2nd weekend prior; and the PGA Championship is the 3rd weekend prior. MrArticleOne (talk) 21:57, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Amateurs

When was the first year they allowed amateurs compete if they won a major?--Perfectamundo (talk) 01:17, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is the location really needed?

This is an annual tournament, I'll grant, but it's a moveable feast as far as locations go. Wouldn't it be more honest to say "various"? JB82 (talk) 16:09, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]