Category: PGA Championship
The last of each summer's four majors, the PGA Championship is also generally considered the lesser of the four. Originally, a match play event, it switched to stroke play in 1958.
Two For The PGA
While you’re waiting for coverage of the PGA to begin, here are a couple of articles:
Ron Sirak of Golfweek says that this will be a particularly interesting PGA.
Canada’s Slam Sports takes a look at the contenders.
Medinah Course Tour
The PGA has a page with video showing flyovers of each of the holes at Medinah. If you think you already know the course because they’ve played there before, think again. Medinah has had a major overhaul since Sergio did his hop and skip. It’s significantly longer at 7,561 yards.
2006 PGA Championship TV and Internet Times
Here are the 2006 PGA Championship TV and Internet Coverage Times
Thursday, August 17
PGA.COm 12:30 - 2:00 coverage provided by TNT
TNT 2 - 8 pm
Friday, August 18
PGA.COM 12:30 - 2:30 coverage provided by TNT
TNT 2 - 8 pm
Saturday, August 19
PGA.COM 10 am - 11 am coverage provided by TNT
TNT 11 am - 2 pm
CBS 2 pm - End of Play
Sunday
PGA.COM 10 am - 11 am coverage provided by TNT
TNT 11 am - 2 pm
CBS 2 pm - End of Play
Real time scoring an statistics are available throughout the tournament at pga.com
The PGA also is providing other coverage online: following certain groups throughout their round; interviews with players as they finish their rounds and; analysis and tips from PGA instructors.
Unfortunately, after more than half an hour looking through the PGA website, I can’t figure out when, exactly, these streams will be offered. It seems odd to me that, given all the press releases and publicity they’ve garnered, nowhere do they give specific times. That’s bad PR on their part.
Fun Groupings At PGA
The PGA Championship has the best group of the year: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Geoff Ogilvy. But in spite of the hype, I don’t think we’re going to see any real fireworks. Two of the three in that group are not going to push the third (I’ll give you three guesses as to whom I’m talking about here, and the first two guesses don’t count).
Just a little less interesting is the group of Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia and Fred Couples.
The Vijay Singh, John Daly, Jeff Sluman pairing also is interesting. Based on Vijay and JD’s interactions on the Daly Planet TV show, I think that the two like playing with each other.
You can see all of the groupings for rounds 1 and 2 of the 2006 PGA Championship in this pdf file.
A Hole By Hole Guide To Medinah
Next week’s PGA Championship will be played at Medinah #3 Course. Here’s a hole by hole guide.
