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The 1991 PGA Championship was the 73rd PGA Championship, held August 8–11 at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb north of Indianapolis. John Daly won the first of his two major titles, three strokes ahead of runner-up Bruce Lietzke.
Daly was quite arguably the most unforeseen major championship winner in modern history. He was the ninth alternate who only qualified after several others pulled out of the tournament. Nick Price withdrew for the birth of his first child and Daly hired his caddy, Jeff "Squeaky" Medlen. Daly's outgoing personality and "grip it and rip it" style of play made him an instant fan favorite. The PGA Championship was his first tour victory.
A spectator was killed after being struck by lightning during a weather delay in the first round. It was the second fatality at a major championship in 1991. Two months earlier at the U.S. Open in Minnesota, six people were hit by lightning with one fatality.
The PGA Championship (sometimes, especially outside of the United States, referred to as the U.S. PGA Championship or U.S. PGA) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America. It is one of the four major championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, played in mid-August on the 3rd weekend prior to Labor Day weekend (although it is being rescheduled in 2016 to accommodate golf's return to the Olympics). It is an official money event on the PGA Tour, the European Tour, and the Japan Golf Tour, with a purse of $10 million for the 96th edition in 2014 (making it the most lucrative of the four majors.)
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 Tournament, U.S. Open, and The Open Championship) for the next five years, and are exempt from qualifying for the PGA Championship for life. They 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, including the U.S. Open and Ryder Cup.
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years.
Following an outstanding amateur and two-year college golf career, Woods turned professional at age 20 in late summer 1996. By April 1997 he had already won his first major, the 1997 Masters in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes and pocketing $486,000. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 264 weeks from August 1999 to September 2004 and 281 weeks from June 2005 to October 2010 as World Number One.
From December 2009 to early April 2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity, but he and his wife Elin Nordegren eventually divorced. His many extramarital indiscretions were revealed by several different women, through many worldwide media sources. This was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011. He ended a career-high winless streak of 107 weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25, 2013, he ascended to the No.1 ranking once again, holding the top spot until May 2014. Woods had back disc surgery in April 2014, and has struggled since to regain his dominant form. By March 29, 2015, Woods had fallen to #104, outside of the top 100 for the first time since the week prior to his first Tour title win in 1996.
1991-08-11: John Daly's first win. Caddy Jeff Medlen was borrowed from Nick Price, who withdrew to accompany his wife's childbirth. Medlen would succumb to leukemia in 1997.
John Daly's prodigious driving ability resulted in a larger-than-life birth of a legend in the 73rd PGA Championship. The ninth alternate in the field, Daly got a telephone call in Memphis, Tenn., at 5 p.m. Wednesday from PGA Tournament Administrator Ken Anderson. Daly was informed he had moved up to first alternate. Daly packed his bags, drove 7 ½ hours to Indianapolis, and got the good news on a message light at his hotel: Nick Price, whose wife was expecting, had withdrawn. From there, Daly put on golf's most memorable exhibition by any rookie player in a major championship. He averaged 303 yards per drive on the 7,295-yard Crooked Stick layout, but proved his length wasn't the only weapon in his arsenal. He also played solidly on the speedy greens and, without the benefit of a practice...
Historic Inverness Club housed a leader board that became a "who's who?" of golf in the final two rounds of the 75th PGA Championship. While some players, particularly long-driving 1991 PGA Champion John Daly complained of tight fairways and tiny greens, Paul Azinger paid attention to former PGA Champion Byron Nelson's advice earlier in the week — play for the middle of the greens. Azinger strung together four birdies in a row in the final round and landed in a tie with Australian Greg Norman, a hard-luck runner-up at Inverness in 1986. Norman had a chance to break the 12-under-par 272 tie in the regulation 72 holes, but his 20-foot birdie attempt grazed the hole. The 12th playoff in Championship history began on Inverness's signature 357-yard par-4 18th hole, and again Norman missed a bir...
Golfer John Daly turned pro in 1987, and he earned his first pro victory soon after at the 1987 Missouri Open. He joined the PGA TOUR in 1991, and won the PGA Championship that same year. Daly garnered quite a bit of media attention from this victory, due to the fact that he was the ninth and final alternate for the event. The eight other alternates couldn't make it. John, playing in just his third major, secured a three-stroke victory. That earned him PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year honors in 1991. John won the British Open in 1995 in a playoff with Italian golfer Costantino Rocca at St. Andrews. Daly is the only eligible two-time major winner never selected to play in the Ryder Cup. Daly went on to win the Buick Invitational in 2004, and earned the PGA TOUR Comeback Player of the Year dist...
Probably the worst quality video on Youtube! Sorry. I just had to show Seve winning the big one of the European Tour. I have the other holes but there is only so many white lines on a upload you loyal subscribers can take. Do shout if you want it anyway.
Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh and the rest during the practice round of the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. It was the 91st PGA Championship, held August 13–16. Yang Yong-eun, more commonly referred to as "Y.E. Yang" won his first major title, three strokes ahead of Tiger Woods, who was a four-time champion. It marked the first time that Woods had failed to win a major he had led after 54 holes. Yang also became the first Asian-born player to win a men's major championship. First round Thursday, August 13, 2009 Tiger Woods had the outright lead after a 67 on the first round, which included 5 birdies and no bogeys. Defending champion Pádraig Harrington, who played in the same group as Woods, was alone in second place after a 68. David...