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31St PGA Grand Slam of Golf 31ST PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF Newsletter No. 1 | April 2013 www.PGA.com ADAM SCOTT BECOMES FIRST AUSTRALIAN TO WIN THE MASTERS; BOOKS FIRST BERTH IN 2013 PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF Padraig Harrington 2012 PGA Grand Slam of Golf Champion 2013 MAJOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS TH • 77 MASTERS Clutch putts on a rainy Sunday in Augusta help Winner: Adam Scott Adam Scott win his first major title and gain entry to the 2013 PGA Grand Slam of Golf • 113TH U.S. OPEN June 13 - 16 Adam Scott let one major championship slip out the outcome … that if I make it I win. You find • 142ND OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP of his grasp last summer, but transformed into a out how much you really want it.” July 18 - 21 closer on a wet Sunday at Augusta National Golf TH Last summer, Scott threw away the Open • 95 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Club, ending more than a half-century of August 8 - 11 Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, Australian frustration at the Masters. England, making bogey on his last four holes to Scott made a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th lose by one stroke to Ernie Els. The 32-year-old hole of regulation, then captured his first major handled that defeat with dignity and pledged to championship with a 12-footer for birdie on the finish stronger if given another chance. second hole of a sudden-death playoff with “Lytham gave me the belief that I could win a Argentina’s Angel Cabrera. major championship, even though I lost,” said “We like to think we’re the best at everything. Scott. “I played so well and I felt I controlled the 31ST PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF Golf is a big sport at home, and this is the one golf tournament for four days. Golf is one of DATES: October 14 - 16, 2013 thing in golf we hadn’t been able to achieve,” said those funny games. It gives you some tough pills SITE: Port Royal Golf Course, Bermuda Scott. “It’s amazing that it’s my destiny to be the to swallow along the way.” first Australian to win. It’s incredible.” PURSE: $1.35 million Scott had to be at his best because Cabrera, who 2012 CHAMPION: Padraig Harrington Scott thrust his arms in the air after the putt entered the Masters as the 269th-ranked player dropped on the 10th hole, a celebration for his in the world, was exceptional. TELEVISION: (All Times Eastern and Pacific) homeland and personal redemption. First Round – October 15, TNT Soon after Scott made his birdie putt on the 18th 4 - 7 P.M. “That was it, that was my chance,” said Scott. hole for a 3-under-par 69, to gain a one-stroke Second Round – October 16, TNT “That was the moment you have to seize. I knew advantage, Cabrera answered with an approach 4 - 8 P.M. TNT’s prime-time broadcast of the event is distributed to a worldwide audience of more than 500 million viewers in more than 100 countries. that came to rest three feet from the hole. He “Australia is a proud sporting nation, and this is made the tap-in birdie for a 70, forging a playoff one notch in the belt we never got,” Scott said. with Scott at 9-under-par 279. “It’s amazing that it came down to me today. But there’s one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, Returning to the 18th for the first playoff hole, and that’s Greg Norman. He’s been incredible to each player chipped for pars from below the green. me and all the great golfers. Part of this belongs to At the second playoff hole (No. 10), Cabrera hit him.” his approach to 15 feet below the hole, and his birdie putt grazed the right side of the cup. Scott said that Norman had given him “so much time and inspiration and belief. I drew on that a Brandishing his long putter against his chest, Scott lot today. I somehow managed to stay in each shot rolled in the winner. With his putt, he gave the when I needed to.” Masters its first Champion to use an anchored putter and the fourth winner in the past six majors Norman later responded to praise Scott. to use the anchored putting stroke. “I’m very proud of Adam, and always believed that Scott closed a lengthy chapter on Australian he would win major championships, and will misfortune in the Masters. The cast of players continue to do so,” Norman said in a call to Golf who had victory in sight before falling began with Channel. Jim Ferrier in 1952 and even extended to the final Scott and Cabrera were gracious gladiators, each round Sunday where Australians Jason Day and exchanging a thumbs-up sign after their approach Marc Leishman battled for the lead. Day held a shots into the 10th hole in the playoff. They two-stroke advantage before bogeys at 16 and 17. walked off the 10th green with their arms around Scott paid tribute to one of his countrymen, each other when it was over. whom he called “an icon” – Greg Norman. The A two-time major champion, and winner of the “Great White Shark,” a close friend to Scott, had Masters in 2009 on the second playoff hole, four prime opportunities to win a Masters, the Cabrera said that Scott’s life will change. most memorable in 1996 when he blew a “He’s been looking for it, searching for it, this six-stroke lead on the last day to Nick Faldo. With victory on the second playoff hole, major title,” said Cabrera. “He’s achieved it, so Scott is the first Aussie to win the Masters Scott paid Norman a tribute in Butler Cabin I’m pretty sure his life is going to change really before he slipped on the green jacket. fast right now.” ONLY THE BEST CAN APPLY Established in 1979, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf has grown from an 18-hole, single-day affair to a 36-hole annual showdown that matches professional golf’s best against each other for a $1.35 million purse, played in front of a television audience in more than 100 countries. The debut of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf concluded with 1978 U.S. Open winner Andy North and 1978 Masters winner Gary Player sharing first place at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y. Since then, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf has been contested over many of the world’s finest golf courses in an annual showcase of golfing greats, such as Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. In 1991, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf changed its format to a two-day, 36-hole event. For the seventh consecutive year, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf is being contested in October. This enables the PGA Grand Slam of Golf to attract the four winners of the current season’s major Championships to a fitting conclusion of the season. The PGA Grand Slam of Golf converted from stroke play to match play for two years in 1998, and then back to stroke play in 2000. The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is considered by Tour professionals as the “toughest qualifying event in golf.” 2013 MAJor Championship Venues 113TH U.S. OPEN Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa. Few venues can boast the championship pedigree of Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. The club has hosted more USGA championships than any facility in the country. This year’s U.S. Open will mark its 18th USGA championship and fifth U.S. Open. Some have called Merion “the finest inland links in the country,” while 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus famously said of Merion: “Acre for acre, it may be the best test of golf in the world.” 142ND OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Muirfield, Scotland The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers — as the golf club at Muirfield is properly known — is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world, and the source of the earliest written Rules of Golf, which date back to 1744. The current course in Gullane, East Lothian opened in 1891, and the club moved from its previous home at the links in nearby Musselburgh. Just a year later, in 1892, Muirfield hosted the first of its 15 Open Championships, which was won by Harold Hilton, one of only three amateurs to have lifted the Claret Jug. 95TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Oak Hill Country Club – Rochester, N.Y. Oak Hill Country Club will host its third PGA Championship, in August. Since 1956, the East Course has been the site of all of the rotating U.S. major championships, along with the 1995 Ryder Cup. Oak Hill, designed by legendary architect Donald Ross, features thousands of oaks, maples, evergreens, and elms. Its signature “Hill of Fame” on the par-5 13th hole has honored many of the game’s foremost players and contributors. While the East Course has undergone various facelifts to accommodate the demands of hosting modern major championships, it remains one of the most beautiful and challenging Ross layouts in the game. PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF ~ 2013 MAJOR CHAMPIONS POINTS LIST MASTERS U.S. OPEN OPEN CHampIonsHIP PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Adam Scott June 15 July 21 August 11 RANK PLAYER POInts Place POInts Place POInts Place POInts Place TOTAL 1st Padraig Harrington PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF, DEFENDING CHAMPION 2nd Angel Cabrera 150 2nd 150 3rd Tiger Woods 105 T4th 105 T4th David Toms 61 T13th 61 T4th Ernie Els 61 T13th 61 T4th Fred Couples 61 T13th 61 T7th Rory McIlroy 46.5 T25th 46.5 T7th Stewart Cink 46.5 T25th 46.5 T7th Charl Schwartzel 46.5 T25th 46.5 T7th Jim Furyk 46.5 T25th 46.5 T7th Bernhard Langer 46.5 T25th 46.5 T12th Martin Kaymer 40 T35th 40 T12th Zach Johnson 40 T35th 40 T14th Paul Lawrie 34.5 T38th 34.5 T14th Vijay Singh 34.5 T38th 34.5 16th Lucas Glover 27 49th 27 T17th Trevor Immelman 24.5 T50th 24.5 T17th Jose Maria Olazabal 24.5 T50th 24.5 T17th Bubba Watson 24.5 T50th 24.5 T20th Keegan Bradley 20.5 T54th 20.5 T20th Sandy Lyle 20.5 T54th 20.5 T20th Phil Mickelson 20.5 T54th 20.5 In the event of an injury or a dual winner in a major Championship, The PGA of America has developed a formula to complete the PGA Grand Slam of Golf field.
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