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2019 MEDIA GUIDE MEDIA 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP PGA BROOKS KOEPKA 2018 PGA Champion Bellerive Country Club | St. Louis, Missouri 101ST PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 13-19, 2019 Bethpage Black Farmingdale, New York 102ND PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 103RD PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 2020 May 2021 Harding Park Golf Club The Ocean Course San Francisco, California Kiawah Island, South Carolina 104TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 105TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 2022 May 2023 Trump National Golf Club Oak Hill Country Club Bedminster, New Jersey Pittsford, New York 106TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 108TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 2024 May 2026 Valhalla Golf Club Aronimink Golf Club Louisville, Kentucky Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 109TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 110TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 2027 May 2028 PGA Frisco The Olympic Club Frisco, Texas San Francisco, California 111TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 113TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 2029 May 2031 Baltusrol Golf Club Congressional Country Club Springfield Township, New Jersey Bethesda, Maryland 116TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP TBD PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 2034 TBD PGA Frisco Southern Hills Country Club Frisco, Texas Tulsa, Oklahoma PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2019 | 1 101ST PGA CHAMPIONSHIP MAY 16-19, 2019 Bethpage Black, Long Island, New York Defending Champion: Brooks Koepka FACTS & FORMAT Purse and Honors The 2019 PGA Champion will have 9. Playing members of the last-named U.S. and European Ryder his name inscribed on the Wanamaker Trophy, which is Cup teams (2018) provided they remain within the top 100 on enshrined in the PGA Gallery at PGA Golf Club in Port St. the Official World Golf Rankings as of May 5, 2019. Lucie, Florida. The PGA Champion also receives a replica of 10. Winners of PGA TOUR co-sponsored or approved the Wanamaker Trophy. In 2018, the purse was $11 million, tournaments, whose victories are considered official, from the with a winner’s prize of $1.98 million. 2018 Players Championship to the 2019 PGA Championship. Television 11. The PGA of America reserves the right to invite additional (All Times Subject to Change - Eastern) players not included in the categories listed above. First Round, Thursday, May 16 12. If necessary to complete the field, those players beyond the TNT: 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. top 70 players who have earned the most PGA Championship Second Round, Friday, May 17 TNT 1:00 – 7:30 p.m. Points from the 2018 The Players Championship through Third Round, Saturday, May 18 the 2019 PGA Tour event ending May 5, 2019 in order of their TNT: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. position on such list. CBS: 2:00 - 7:00 p.m. *Note: The PGA Championship points list is compiled of Official Fourth Round, Sunday, May 19 Money earned in PGA TOUR events within the defined period in TNT: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 8 and 12 above and is available on www.pgatour.com CBS: 2:00 - 7:00 p.m. Method of Play Seventy-two holes of stroke play, four rounds of 18 holes. Following the first 36 holes of play, the THE WANAMAKER TROPHY field of 156 players will be reduced to the low 70 scorers New York City department store magnate and ties. Those players will advance to complete the final Rodman Wanamaker, who was instrumental two rounds. In the event of a tie for first place after 72 holes, in coordinating a 1916 luncheon that led to there will be a three-hole aggregate score playoff on holes the founding of the PGA of America, offered 1, 17 and 18. If a tie still remains, there will be a hole-by-hole to provide the new Association with cash prizes and a trophy for the inaugural PGA playoff beginning on No. 18, and, if necessary, on to holes 1, Championship. Wanamaker proposed that the 17 and 18 repeated until a winner is determined. cup would be similar to the News of the World award given to the winner in Great Britain. Rules and Regulations The Rules of Golf, which govern play, are determined by the United States Golf Association Wanamaker’s generosity resulted in $2,500 and applied by the PGA of America Board of Directors. The purse, a silver cup and travel expenses for the competitors for the first PGA Championship conducted at match play PGA Championship is subject to the overall supervision of at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, N.Y., Oct. 10-14, 1916. From 1916 the PGA of America Board of Directors. to 1959, the Champion’s desired home club or residence were engraved The PGA of America has approved the following list on the trophy. From 1960-the present, the host venue is honored. The Eligibility Rodman Wanamaker Trophy continues to serve as the perpetual prize of players eligible to compete in the 101st PGA Championship: for the PGA Champion. The trophy weighs 34 pounds, is 29 1/4 inches 1. All former winners of the PGA Championship. high, 10 1/2 inches in diameter and measures 27 inches from handle to handle. In 1928, Leo Diegel snapped the four-year winning streak of 2. Winners of the last five Masters (2015 – 2019). Walter Hagen, defeating “The Haig” in the quarterfinals at Five Farms Country Club in Baltimore. Diegel went onto win the Championship, 3. Winners of the last five U.S. Opens (2014 – 2018). a truly stunning sports story at that time. Even more shocking was 4. Winners of the last five Open Championships (2014 – 2018). the fact that the Wanamaker Trophy was missing. When PGA officials asked Hagen what had happened to the Trophy since its presentation 5. Winners of the last three Players Championships (2017 – 2019) a year earlier at Cedar Crest Country Club in Dallas, the five-time PGA Champion declared it was irrevocably lost. Hagen said that he had 6. The top 15 finishers and ties from the 2018 PGA Championship. entrusted the trophy to a taxi driver to take the precious cargo to his 7. The top 20 finishers from the 2019 PGA Professional hotel. It never arrived. Championship. In 1930, the Wanamaker Trophy was found by accident by a porter in Detroit cleaning the cellar of L.A. Young & Company, the firm that 8. The top 70 players who have earned the most PGA manufactured clubs bearing Hagen’s name. The trophy was safe in an Championship Points from the 2018 The Players Championship unmarked case. Today, it is on display for all golf enthusiasts to view at through the 2019 PGA Tour event (ending May 5, 2019). the PGA Gallery at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2019 | 2 PGA Champion Benefits Other PGA Championship Performance Benefits The 2019 PGA Champion will receive: • The top four scorers and ties in the PGA Championship • A lifetime exemption into the PGA Championship are eligible to compete in the following year’s Masters. • The Masters – Five-year exemption • The top 30 scorers and ties are exempt from local qualifying (but not Sectional) for the following year’s • U.S. Open – Five-year exemption U.S. Open. • Open Championship – Five-year exemption • The Players Championship – Five-year exemption • A five-year exemption on the PGA Tour • Two points for every $1,000 earned in the PGA Championship toward a berth on the 2020 Ryder Cup (provided he is American-born) • 30 points toward the 2019 PGA Player of the Year Award (Note: Should a player win more than one major Championship in one year, an additional 50 bonus points for each win are awarded toward the PGA Player of the Year Award.) BETHPAGE BLACK Bethpage State Park is one of the most popular and Famed golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast was hired to cherished public parks in the nation.Located in suburban design and oversee construction of three new golf courses Long Island in close proximity to New York City, Bethpage is (the Black, Red, and Blue) as well as modify the original a mecca for public golf featuring five 18-hole regulation golf Lenox Hills course, later known as the Green Course. Due to courses, including the world-renowned Black Course.In the increasing popularity and demand for golf, the Yellow addition to Bethpage Black hosting the United States Open Course designed by Alfred Tull was opened in 1958. Over Championships in 2002 and 2009, it was also the site of The 200,000 rounds are consistently played annually on the five Barclays PGA Tour events in 2012 and 2016. In 2019, courses at Bethpage, all of which start from the Clubhouse Bethpage will host the PGA Championship and the Ryder area. Cup in 2024. With approximately 15,000 golf courses of all different types The Park was developed from an estate owned by the and sizes in the United States, the Black Course at Bethpage Yoakum family and other surrounding properties in State Park has consistently ranked among the top 100 Farmingdale.The Yoakum family leased their estate to the Greatest Golf Courses in America per Golf Digest for nearly Lenox Hills Corporation which subsequently built the Lenox twenty years (highest rank #26). Hills Country Club. In the early 1930s, the Bethpage Park Authority purchased the Lenox Hills Country Club and other adjacent properties to build Bethpage State Park. 2019 PGA Championship Official Dimensions: Bethpage Black HOLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In TOTAL PAR 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 3 4 35 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 4 35 70 YARDS 430 389 230 517 478 408 524 210 460 3646 502 435 515 608 161 484 490 207 411 3813 7459 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2019 | 3 States Hosting the PGA Championship MULTIPLE HOSTS OF A PREMIER MAJOR Ranking the 26 states and the number of times they have host- The previous 100 PGA Championships have been hosted by 74 ed the PGA Championship: different courses in 26 states.