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Event
Information:
The PGA
Championship will be played at The Highlands
Course of the Atlanta Athletic Club
in Johns Creek, Georgia. Television
coverage will be provided in the
United States by CBS and TNT, and in
the United Kingdom by Sky Sports.
The
PGA Championship (sometimes referred
to as the U.S. PGA Championship
outside of the United States) is an
annual golf tournament conducted by
the PGA of America as part of the
PGA Tour. It is one of the four
major championships in men's
professional golf, and is the golf
season's final major, usually played
in mid-August, customarily four
weeks after The Open Championship.
(It was advanced a week in 2007 and
2008 because of local scheduling
conflicts.) Due to its distinction
as the season's final major, the PGA
Championship is nicknamed "Glory's
Last Shot". It is an official money
event on the PGA Tour, the European
Tour, and the Japan Golf Tour, with
a purse of $7.5 million in 2008. The
edition will be the 93rd PGA
Championship.
In
line with the other majors, winning
"The PGA" gives a golfer several
privileges which make his career
much more secure, if he is not
already one of the elite players of
the sport. PGA champions are
automatically invited to play in the
other three majors (Masters, U.S.
Open, and the Open Championship) for
the next five years, and are exempt
from qualifying for the PGA
Championship for life. They also
receive membership on the PGA and
European Tours for the following
five seasons and invitations to The
Players Championship for five years.
The PGA Championship has been held
at a large number of venues, some of
the early ones now quite obscure,
but currently it is usually staged
by one of a small group of
celebrated courses, each of which
has also hosted several other
leading events.
The
Atlanta Athletic Club (AAC), founded
in 1898, is a world-renowned private
athletic club in Johns Creek,
Georgia, a suburb 23 miles north of
Atlanta. The original home of the
club was a 10-story building located
on Carnegie Way, and in 1904 a golf
course was built on Atlanta's East
Lake property. In 1908, John Heisman
(the Georgia Tech coach for whom the
Heisman Trophy was named) was hired
as the AAC athletic director.
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