2009 PGA MEDIA GUIDE PGA Professional National Championship Presenting Sponsors: Titleist, FootJoy and Cobra; Club Car 2009 Facts and Format WPGT, JLPGA, Golden Bear Tour, Hooter’s Tour, and SBC Dates: June 28 - July 1, 2009 Futures Tour events between May 2008 and May 2009. (The U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, PGA Championship and Site: Twin Warriors Golf Club and Santa Ana Golf Club Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. Senior PGA Championship are excluded from the 10-tournament count.) The Callaway Golf PGA Assistant Presenting Sponsors: Champion will be exempt into the national field, provided Titleist, FootJoy and Cobra; Club Car that he or she was a PGA member at the time he or she won Exclusive Media Partner: Golf Channel the Championship, and is eligibly employed or in an eligible Contributing Partner: PGA Tour PGA classification at the time of entry into the PGA Defending Champion: Scott Hebert, Traverse City, Mich. Professional National Championship. Rules and Regulations The Rules of Golf, which govern Television: Golf Channel (All Times Eastern — TBD) play, are determined by the United States Golf Association and applied by the PGA of America Rules Committee. The First Round: Sunday, June 28 PGA Professional National Championship is subject to the Second Round: Monday, June 29 overall supervision of the board and the PGA Rules Third Round: Tuesday, June 30 Committee. Final Round: Wednesday, July 1 Prize Money and Awards The 2009 PGA Professional National Championship features a $550,000 purse. The 2009 Champion’s name will be inscribed on the Walter Hagen Cup, which is enshrined at the PGA Historical Center in Port The Walter Hagen Cup St. Lucie, Fla. The 2009 PGA Professional National Presented to the PGA Professional National Champion receives exemptions for the following: Champion, the Walter Hagen Cup is named af- ¡ 2009 PGA Championship ter the legendary golfer, five-time PGA ¡ 2009 PGA Cup Champion and one of ¡ Six PGA Tour events over a 12-month period the 35 original founders of The PGA of America. Method of Play Stroke play, four rounds, 18 holes daily Hagen elevated the on two courses. The entire field of 312 will compete on each role of the PGA Profes- course once in the first two rounds. Following the first 36 sional throughout his holes of play, the field will be reduced to the low 70 scorers career. The Haig’s in- and those tied for 70th place. Those players will compete in spirational career is the final two rounds at Twin Warriors Golf Club. In the event reflected by today’s of a tie for first place upon completion of play, there will be a PGA Professionals in hole-by-hole playoff. the National Champi- Eligibility The field of 312 will be limited to those PGA onship — exhibiting members who are eligibly employed as PGA Professionals their playing skills un- and in certain pre-established membership classifications as der a national spotlight of May 2009. The PGA of America reserves the right to while also serving their determine whether or not any applicant is so employed and to respective facilities and golf communities as reject any applicant who does not meet the requirements. No managers, merchandisers and respected player will be eligible if he or she has played in more than 10 teachersofthegame.ThePGAProfessional combined PGA Tour, Champions Tour, Nationwide Tour, National Champion receives a replica of the LPGA, PGA European Tour, Canadian Tour, Australia/New crystal Walter Hagen Cup, which stands 14½ Zealand Tour, JPGA Tour, Sunshine Tour (South Africa), inches high, 12 inches wide and weighs 17½ Asian Tour, Safari Tour, PGA Challenge Tour, National pounds. Senior Tour, European Seniors Tour, JPGA Senior Tour, ©2009 PGA of America, All rights reserved worldwide. May not be reproduced without written consent of The PGA of America. 2009 PGA MEDIA GUIDE PGA Professional National Championship —2 ¢ The National Championship Returns to the Land of EnchantmentPGA Professional — National Championship Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort Awaits Nation’s Finest PGA Professionals Twin Warriors Golf Club Twin Warriors Golf Club’s 18 holes of high desert is one of New Mexico’s best championship adventures in the game. Twin Warriors was listed among the Best Public Golf Courses in America by Golf Digest, was the third-best new golf course in New Mexico when it opened in May 2001 and is listed in the Top 75 Golf Resorts in America by GOLF Magazine. Twin Warriors was the site of the 2003 PGA Professional National Championship. Designed by Gary Panks, Twin Warriors is routed in and around 20 ancient cultural sites of previous habitation and activity. The course, which will host the final two rounds of the 2009 PGA Professional National Championship, fea- tures beautiful grassy knolls and ridges dotted The dramatic 10th hole at Twin Warriors Golf Club in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., with Juniper and Pinon Pine. Wonderful dry provides one of many stunning vistas for participants in the 42nd PGA Professional washes known as arroyos and eroded land fea- National Championship. tures, along with the sacred butte known as Tuyuna or “Snakehead,” complete a picture framed by spectacular views of the Sandia Moun- north of Albuquerque, N.M., and woven through the desert tains. Twin Warriors’ features a variety of turfgrass: Dominant along the Rio Grande, it is surrounded by the grandeur of the Bentgrass on the greens; Hybrid Bluegrass on fairways and JemezMountainstothewest,theSangredeCristostothe tees; and a Bluegrass Fescue Mix in the roughs. north, and the Sandia Mountains immediately east, offering a Santa Ana Golf Club Santa Ana Golf Club, which will spectacular view of the 10,000-foot Sandia Peak. Native play host with Twin Warriors Golf Club through the first two grasses, subtle mounding and eight crystal-blue lakes will in- rounds of the 2009 PGA Professional National spire and challenge the field in the National Championship. Championship, is ranked No. 33 nationwide in Golf Digest’s Twin Warriors and the nearby Santa Ana Golf Club repre- Top 40 Resort Golf courses. Santa Ana Golf Club hosted the sent the golf facilities of the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort. 1999 Western PGA Professional Championship. Located on the banks of the Rio Grande within the ancient Santa Ana Golf Club is the award-winning sister course to lands of the Native American Pueblo of Santa Ana, this golf Twin Warriors Golf Club. The course is ranked in the prestig- and spa resort offers luxurious amenities and beautiful natural ious top 100 in the country by both Golf Digest and Golfweek. surroundings with an ideal year-round climate. The resort is The Santa Ana Golf Club is a daily fee golf course, offering some 20 minutes from Albuquerque and 40 minutes from his- the glorious natural splendor of the Santa Ana Pueblo. Located toric Santa Fe. ¢ The 42nd PGA Professional National Championship Twin Warriors Golf Club, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. — Proposed Yardages Hole 1 2 3456789101112131415161718InOutTotal Par 544344453444353444 363672 Yards 563 479 477 197 460 449 489 586 208 483 349 584 186 420 221 584 401 488 3,908 3,716 7,624 Santa Ana Golf Club, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. — Proposed Yardages Hole 1 2 3456789101112131415161718InOutTotal Par 444353444443434444 353570 Yards 405 473 502 196 599 190 460 412 374 433 418 237 384 171 375 443 633 468 3,611 3,562 7,173 ©2009 PGA of America, All rights reserved worldwide. May not be reproduced without written consent of The PGA of America. 2009 PGA MEDIA GUIDE PGA Professional National Championship —3 ¢ PGA Professional National Championship — The PGA Professional’sPGA Professional Showcase National Championship The PGA Professional National Championship began in The list of Champions over the past 41 years includes: Sam 1968, to provide additional playing opportunities for PGA Pro- Snead, Bob Rosburg, Ed Dougherty, Bruce Fleisher and the fessionals. In more than three decades, it has become a show- late Larry Gilbert, the only three-time Champion. Former case event for PGA Professionals, featuring some of the finest Tour professionals Rex Baxter Jr., Don Massengale, Laurie players in the Association. Formerly a 360-player field, the for- Hammer, Larry Webb, Bob Boyd, Brett Upper, Bruce mat of the PGA Professional National Championship was con- Zabriski and Mike Small also have won the National Champi- verted from 1997-2005 to a larger nationwide event featuring onship. the finest 156 players at the peak of their games. In 1997, the 30th National Championship was the first to be Previously, the Championship was contested after the golf televised live by Golf Channel to millions of viewers across the season had ended across much of the United States. In 1997, lo- U.S., Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Malaysia, cal Sectional PGA Professional Championships were created, the Middle East, Scandinavia and Singapore. This year’s PGA along with four new Regional PGA Professional Champion- Professional National Championship has a potential audience ships. The National Championship then moved its dates to one of 110 million. month prior to the PGA Championship. Following the 2004 fall The 42nd PGA Professional National Championship fea- season, the Regional PGA Professional Championships were tures a field of 312 players who have advanced from the 41 discontinued, focusing more on the Section Championships PGA Section Championships, along with past Champions. The and National Championship. final 36 holes of the National Championship will be conducted The Championship has been conducted in 14 states in the on one course, featuring a field of the low 70 scorers and ties. previous 41 years: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Ken- The Championship will distribute a total purse of more than tucky, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, $1.65 million, which will be awarded in both the Section and Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Wisconsin.