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PGA MEDIA GUIDE PGA Championship 2011 Facts and Format n The 70 leaders from the PGA Championship Points Date: Aug. 11-14 list from the 2010 World Golf Championships- Site: Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course), Bridgestone Invitational through the 2011 Johns Creek, Ga. Greenbrier Classic ending July 31, 2011. n Defending Champion: Martin Kaymer Members of the 2010 United States and European Ryder Cup Teams providing they remain within the top 100 of the World Golf Rankings as of July 31. Purse and Honors The 2011 purse will be announced Aug. 10, at the 93rd PGA Championship. In 2010, a total purse of $7.5 million was offered, with a winner’s prize of $1.35 mil- The Wanamaker Trophy lion. The 2011 PGA Champion will have his name inscribed NewYorkCitydepartmentstoremagnate on the Wanamaker Trophy, which is permanently enshrined at Rodman Wanamaker, who was instrumental in the PGA Museum of Golf in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The PGA coordinating a 1916 luncheon that evolved into Champion also receives a replica of the Wanamaker Trophy. the founding of The PGA of America, offered to Television (All Times Eastern) provide the new Association with cash prizes Road to The PGA Championship and a trophy for the inaugural PGA Champion- Sunday, July 31 CBS 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ship. Wanamaker proposed that the trophy Tuesday, August 2 GOLF 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. would be similar to the News of the World Award GOLF 12:00 - 1:00 a.m. given to the winner of the PGA Championship of Monday, August 8 GOLF 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Great Britain. Wanamaker’s generosity resulted GOLF 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. in $2,500 for the first PGA Tuesday, August 9 GOLF 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Championship, conducted at match play at Siwanoy Coun- Preview Show, Sunday August 7 CBS 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. try Club in Bronxville, N.Y., Oct. Thurs., August 11 - Fri., August 12 TNT 1:00 - 7:00 p.m. 9-14, 1916. In addition, a silver CBS 12:37 - 1:07 a.m. cup and gold medal were pre- Sat., August 13 - Sun., August 14 TNT 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. sented to the winner, as well CBS 2:00 - 7:00 p.m. as a silver medal for the run- ner-up, and bronze medals Method of Play Stroke play, four rounds of 18 holes. Fol- for the winners of the qualify- lowing the first 36 holes of play, the field will be reduced to the ing rounds. low 70 scorers and ties. Those players will advance to com- The Wanamaker Trophy plete the final rounds. In the event of a tie for first place after 72 continues to serve as the perpetual honor prize holes, there will be a three-hole aggregate-score playoff on for the PGA Champion. The trophy weighs 27 holes No. 16, 17 and 18. If a tie still remains, there will be a pounds, is 28 inches high, 10½ inches in diameter hole-by-hole playoff beginning on hole No. 18, and, if neces- and measures 27 inches from handle to handle. sary, on to holes No. 10, 17, and 18 repeated until a winner is In 1928, Leo Diegel snapped the four-year determined. winning streak of Walter Hagen, defeating “The Haig” by a 2-and-1 margin in the quarterfinals at Rules and Regulations The Rules of Golf, which govern Five Farms Country Club in Baltimore. Diegel went play, are determined by the United States Golf Association and on to win theChampionship,atruly stunning sports applied by the PGA of America Board of Directors. The PGA story at that time. Even more shocking was the fact Championship is subject to the overall supervision of the PGA that the Wanamaker Trophy was missing. of America Board of Directors. When PGA officials asked Hagen about what Eligibility The PGA of America has approved the following had happened to the Trophy since its presenta- list of players eligible to compete in the 93rd PGA Champion- tion a year earlier at Cedar Crest Country Club in ship: Dallas, the five-time PGA Champion declared it was irrevocably lost. Hagen said that he had en- n All former PGA Champions trusted the trophy to a taxi driver to take the pre- n Winners of the last five Masters (2007-2011) cious cargo to his hotel. It never arrived. n Winners of the last five U.S. Opens (2007-2011) In 1930, the Wanamaker Trophy was found by n Winners of the last five Open Championships accident by a porter in Detroit cleaning the cellar (2007-2011) of L.A. Young & Company, the firm that manufac- n The 2011 Senior PGA Champion tured clubs bearing Hagen’s name. The trophy was safe in an unmarked case, and today is on n The 15 low scorers and ties in the 2010 PGA display for all golf enthusiasts to view at the PGA Championship Historical Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla. n The 20 low scorers in the 2011 PGA Professional see Rodman Wanamaker feature on page 22. National Championship PGA MEDIA GUIDE n Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved n A berth in the 2011 PGA Grand Slam of Golf by the PGA Tour from the 2010 PGA n A five-year exemption on the PGA Tour Championship to the 2011 PGA Championship n Points for every $1,000 earned in the PGA (does not include pro-am and team competitions). Championship toward a berth on the 2012 Ryder n Vacancies will be filled by the first available player Cup (provided he is American-born) from the list of alternates (those below 70th place in n 30 points toward the 2011 PGA Player of the Year the PGA Championship Points list from the 2010 Award World Golf Championships-Bridgestone (Note: Should a player win more than one major Champi- Invitational through the 2011 Greenbrier Classic, onship in one year, an additional 50 bonus points for each win ending July 31). are awarded toward the PGA Player of the Year Award.) In addition, The PGA of America reserves the right to in- Other PGA Championship and Top Performance vite additional players not included in the categories listed Benefits above. The total field will be a maximum of 156 players. n The top four scorers and ties in the PGA PGA Champion Benefits Championship are eligible to compete in the The 2011 PGA Champion will receive: following year’s Masters. n A lifetime exemption into the PGA Championship n The top 30 scorers and ties are exempt from local n The Masters - Five-year exemption qualifying (but not Sectional) for the following n U.S. Open - Five-year exemption year’s U.S. Open. n Open Championship - Five-year exemption n The Players Championship - Five-year exemption n Atlanta Athletic Club One of the most respected clubs of itskind inthe nation,At- lanta Athletic Club (AAC) was founded Aug. 15, 1898, by Atlanta attorney Burton Smith and a group of eight business friends and associates. A charter was signed by 65 men on Sept. 6, in the same year, and the groundwork was begun to de- velop a gymnasium and tennis facility. Enthusiasm soon spread and 700 members enrolled by 1901. In 1908,Georgia Tech’sfirstfootballcoach,John Heisman - who would later become the namesake for college football’s highest individual player honor - was named the AAC’s ath- letic director. One of Heisman’s assignments was basketball The Wanamaker Trophy at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns and though not his specialty, he developed a formidable club Creek, Ga. team. But many club members desired to expand activities fur- dreams of Atlantans, by encouraging the club governors to ther. purchase land 25 miles north of the city for developing a new George Adair lobbied to build a golf course at East Lake, golf and country club complex. Jones would later serve as a 187-acre tract of land that featured a 30-acre lake. The land president of Atlanta Athletic Club from 1946-47. was owned by Atlanta Athletic Club member Harry Atkinson. To the north and west of the city lay the beautiful timber- Architect Tom Bendelow was commissioned to design the lands know at North Fulton County, which was being touted as course, which began as a seven-hole layout, and was soon ex- the perfect area to build and put down roots. Club visionaries, panded to nine and then 18 holes. Now, the club boasted two with the blessing of its most famous member, Jones, foresaw successsful locations, downtown Atlanta and East Lake. a complex that would house in one location almost all of its East Lake Country Club, which opened on July 4, 1908, amenities - swimming, athletics, tennis, dining, dancing, golf was the training ground of Bobby Jones. That summer, a and relocation for its yacht club on Lake Lanier 20 miles north. neighborhood tournament featured a six-year-old Jones, Al- East Lake, which hosted the 1963 Ryder Cup, was sold in exa Stirling and Perry Adair - all future golf prodigies. 1968. The golf course of the new Atlanta Athletic Club was de- Adair would go on to win two Southern Amateur titles, signed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1966, and opened in May while Stirling captured three U.S. Women’s Amateur Cham- 1967 in then-Duluth, Ga. The club began as a 27-hole facility pionships and Jones would emerge as golf’s most revered as a cost of $650,000.