Previous PGA Championship winners at Oak Hill: Though will have a much different look and feel this year. Oak Hill Country Club’s East Course has hosted the PGA Championship on three previous occasions (as listed below), as well as being a three-time US Open host, two-time US Amateur host and 1995 host of the Ryder Cup. Thomas returns to defend this week at Oak Hill Country Club, looking to become the ninth player to win back-to-back PGA Championships a feat most recently achieved by Brooks Koepka in 2018/2019. After Chile’s Mito Pereira made the inexplicable mistake of finding the water on 18 whilst holding a one-shot lead, Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris finished tied atop the leaderboard on -5 with Thomas seeing off his less experienced counterpart by shooting -2 in the three-hole playoff for his second PGA Championship success. Justin Thomas won a thrilling renewal of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills last year, in what was the most challenging edition since 2008. The first of Rory McIlroy’s PGA Championship wins in 2012 at Kiawah Island saw him win by a huge eight strokes, the highest winning margin in the tournament’s history, whilst in 2015, Jason Day’s -20 at Whistling Straits broke the record for lowest winning score in the event. Gary Player and Lee Trevino, along with Justin Thomas, Rory, McIlroy, Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson in recent times, are amongst the list of players to hoist the Wanamaker trophy on more than once occasion. Tiger Woods is 3 rd on that list of most PGA Championship wins with 4, twice defending his title in 20. Jack Nicklaus tied Hagen for most wins in the stroke play era, winning five times between 1963-1980, with his fifth and final PGA Championship coming here at Oak Hill. It remained in a match play format right up until 1957, during which time Walter Hagen recorded five wins (the joint most in the tournament’s history), with players such as Sam Snead, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson also claiming the trophy. The Canadian did have the third-round lead by three shots last October at the Bermuda Championship before closing with a 76 and finishing a career-high fifth.The PGA Championship was the third of golf’s most coveted titles to enter into existence, having been established in 1916 as a match play event taking place every year since with the exclusion of 1917-18 due to WWI and 1943 due to WWII. Pendrith is atop a leaderboard for the first time on the PGA Tour following an opening round. “That’s all that matters,” he said with a grin. Toward the end of his round, the relatively anonymous player in the world noticed the ‘h’ in his last name was missing on the leaderboard.Īlas, the 8 under next to his misspelled name was correct. Pendrith, a 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie, surged into a share of the lead with five birdies in a seven-hole stretch on his back nine. “It was nice to just get a bonus birdie on 8 after a poor wedge shot, but that’s why we call our putter the equalizer,” Finau said. On the par-4 eighth hole, he made a 41-foot putt downhill with a slight break from right to left for another birdie and a three-shot lead. “Obviously, 64´s a very good round, but this is a golf course where a lot of guys are going to make birdies.” “Do the math, I missed 10 putts,” he said. He hit all 18 greens in regulation for the first time in 728 PGA Tour stroke-play rounds. Si Woo Kim and Kurt Kitayama, both ranked among the top 70 in the world, were in the pack at 67.įinau, who rallied from a five-shot deficit with 11 holes left to win the 3M Open by three shots Sunday in Minnesota, opened with a birdie and had five birdies on his front nine.Īfter cooling off with four straight pars, Finau closed with his seventh and eighth birdies in a bogey-free round. Open champion Webb Simpson, Michael Thompson, Cameron Champ, Lee Hodges and Matt Wallace were two shots back. In the afternoon, the wind picked up and the scores did as well.įormer U.S. The leaderboard was filled with players who took advantage of favorable scoring conditions with morning tee times. “I had to get all of it to get it to the hole and hit it right in the middle of the green,” he said. The pivotal shot on Finau’s 16th hole, a 560-yard par 5, set up a two-putt from 43 feet for one of his eight birdies.
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