Website: centerfornewsanddesign.com MAJORS AT BALTUSROL 2016 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP • BALTUSROL 2005 PGA Championship (Lower Course) July Winner: Phil Mickelson Score: 276 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 shot Margin: British Open PGA Championship Runner-up: Steve Elkington, Thomas Bjorn Summary: Mickelson was tied FACTS for the lead in the 18th fairway when he tapped the plaque & FIGURES commemorating Jack Nicklaus' 98th PGA Championship 1-iron to the green when he July 28-31 won the 1967 U.S. Open. Baltusrol Golf Club Mickelson missed the green to (Lower Course) the right, but chipped to 2 feet Springfield, N.J. for a tap-in birdie and his second major championship. Length: 7,462 yards 1993 U.S. Open Par: 34-36 — 70 (Lower Course) Winner: Lee Janzen Field: 156 players (136 Score: 272 tour pros, 20 club Margin: 2 shots pros) Runner-up: Payne Stewart Noteworthy: Janzen became Estimated prize the second player to win a money: U.S. Open with all four rounds $10.5 million in the 60s, and he tied the U.S. Open record that Jack Nicklaus Winner’s share: set in 1980, also at Baltusrol. $1.89 million 1980 U.S. Open Defending champion: (Lower Course) Jason Day Winner: Jack Nicklaus Score: 272 Last year: Jason Day Margin: 2 shots Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Rory became the first player Runner-up: Isao Aoki McIlroy have one final chance for in major championship Noteworthy: Tom Weiskopf a major in 2016 at Baltusrol. history to finish at became the second player to 20-under par. He closed shoot 63 in the U.S. Open in the with a 5-under 67 at first round, only for Jack Whistling Straits for a Nicklaus to match him on the three-shot victory over same day. Nicklaus won his Jordan Spieth, who was 16th major at age 40. trying to be the first player to sweep the 1967 U.S. Open American majors. (Lower Course) MAJOR Winner: Jack Nicklaus Check the calendar: The Score: 275 PGA Championship Margin: 4 shots Turnaround was moved to the last Runner-up: Arnold Palmer week in July because of Noteworthy: Nicklaus closed golf being on the with a 65 to break the U.S. Open Olympic program for scoring record for 72 holes that Players head to PGA Championship just two weeks after the first time since had stood since Ben Hogan at 1904. The last time the Riviera in 1948. He would break the British Open to make room for this year’s Olympics PGA was not played in his own record 13 years later. August was in 1971, when it was held at 1954 U.S. Open PGA National in Florida hey spent four days in the Spieth is having a good year. He Masters. Dustin Johnson won the (Lower Course) in February. The last wind and cold at Royal Troon, already has won two times, U.S. Open. Henrik Stenson won the Winner: Ed Furgol time it was held in July T competing for a major including in his home state of Texas. British Open. Score: 284 was in 1968 at Pecan championship and most of them He was one bad swing away from They were first-time major Margin: 1 shot Valley Country Club in losing the battle. So imagine how winning the Masters. It just feels like champions with a strong pedigree. Runner-up: Gene Littler San Antonio. players felt when they trudged off a failure compared with last year, Willett was No. 12 in the world when Noteworthy: Furgol won his only the course for the last time and when he won two majors and his he won the Masters, and the others major by closing with a 72 to Eleven of were reminded that the PGA worst finish was missing the playoff were No. 6. Go all the way back to Key statistic: hold off Gene Littler, who had the last 12 winners of Championship started in 11 days. at St. Andrews by one shot. That the height of Tiger Woods in 2000 to won the 1953 U.S. Amateur the the PGA Championship "That's pretty mad," Graeme was always going to be the case, find four major champions with year before. had already won a McDowell said, a slight grin as he and it's starting to wear on him. such a high world ranking. tournament earlier in shook his head. "An unusual "Had last year not happened I'd 1936 US. Open the year. summer." be having a lot of positive BALTUSROL (Upper Course) Blame it on Rio. questions," he said. "Instead, most The last two times Baltusrol Winner: Tony Manero The PGA Golf is back in the Olympics for the of the questions I get are comparing hosted the U.S. Open, scoring Noteworthy: Score: 282 Championship has first time since 1904, a dozen years to last year and, therefore, negative. records were set by Jack Nicklaus in Margin: 2 shots been held in every before the PGA Championship even Because it's not to the same 1980 and Lee Janzen in 1993. When it Runner-up: Harry Cooper month of the year began. To make room for it, the PGA standard. So that's almost tough to hosted the PGA Championship for Noteworthy: The U.S. Open except for January, Championship agreed to move up to then convince myself that you're the first time in 2005, only nine record score had stood for 20 March and April. last week of July ahead of the Rio having a good year when nobody players broke par, led by Phil years until Manero shattered it Games. The silver claret jug one else ... even if you guys think it is, Mickelson at 276. The Lower Course with a closing 67 for what “The PGA week, a Wanamaker Trophy the the questions I get make me feel designed by A.W. Tillinghast doesn't Quoteworthy: turned out to be his only major. Championship alone next. like it's not." have a par 5 until the very end, and could become one of Historically, this is nothing new. One major could change every- then it closes with two of them. 1915 U.S. Open the most special weeks The PGA Championship, until it thing. (Old Course) I've ever had.” settled comfortably into a tradition- Ditto for McIlroy, whose only RYDER CUP Winner: Jerome Travers — Jordan Spieth Score: 297 al August date, used to be all over victory was the Irish Open before a The PGA Championship used to Margin: 1 shot the calendar. Jack Nicklaus won the home crowd. McIlroy ended 2014 be the final event to qualify for the 1971 PGA Championship in February with two straight majors. Since Ryder Cup. This year, there will be Television (all times Runner-up: Tom McNamara Thursday when it was held at PGA National in then, he hasn't finished closer than four more tournaments to collect EDT): Noteworthy: Travers was the and Friday, 1 Florida. It was held in December five shots to the winner in six points, though this still is a big second amateur to win the U.S. p.m. to 7 p.m., 1929 at Hillcrest Country Club in Los majors. Day has been No. 1 in the one because majors count Open, following Francis Ouimet TNT. Saturday, 11 Angeles. Over the years, the PGA world since March, and his three double. Spieth and Johnson two years earlier at Brookline. a.m. to 2 p.m., Championship has been played in victories are the most on the PGA each have clinched one He previously had won the U.S. TNT; 2 p.m. to 7 every month except for January, Tour. They include a World Golf of the eight automat- Amateur four times. He did not p.m. CBS. March and April. Championship and The Players ic spots. Mickelson return to defend. In fact, he Sunday, 11 One thing doesn't change about Championship. It has been a very took a big step never entered another U.S. a.m. to 2 the 98th PGA Championship. It's the good year. A major makes it a great with his Open. Travers had a successful p.m., TNT; 2 last one of the year, one last chance one. runner-up finish career on Wall Street. p.m. to 7 for players to reshape their seasons. The PGA Championship no longer at the British p.m., CBS. 1903 U.S. Open That starts with Jordan Spieth, uses the slogan, "Glory's Last Shot," Open. This will (Old Course) Jason Day and Rory McIlroy. even though it still applies. go a long way Winner: Willie Anderson They began 2016 as the modern in deciding Score: 307 version of the “Big Three” because MAJOR BREAKTHROUGHS the other five. Margin: Playoff (82-84) they had traded turns at No. 1 in the Only three times in the last 50 Runner-up: David Brown world and had combined to win five years have the four majors been Phil Mickelson Noteworthy: Anderson shares of the previous six majors. All three won by players who had never won won the PGA the U.S. Open record of four risk being shut out in the majors if one, most recently in 2011. Now Chmpionship the victories with Bobby Jones, Ben they don't win at Baltusrol Golf Club there's a chance of that happening last time it was held Hogan and Jack Nicklaus. This on July 28-31.