THIS WEEK on the PGA TOUR: PGA Championship
COURSE: The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort (South Carolina)
ARCHITECT: Pete and Alice Dye
YARDS/PAR: 7,876 yards/Par 72
PRIZE Money/First Place Winnings: TBD (Was $11,000,000/$1,980,000 in 2020)
DEFENDING Champion (August 2020) – Collin Morikawa – (2020 Leaderboard)
PAST RESULTS: (link)
PAST CHAMPIONS: (link)
FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 600
SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup @PGAChampionship
OFFICIAL SITE: (PGA Tour on the PGA Championship) – (Official Tournament Site)
TV COVERAGE: Thursday and Friday, May 20 and 21: 1:00pm to 7:00pm (EDT) on ESPN. On Saturday, May 22 and Sunday, May 23 – ESPN’s coverage runs from 10:00am to 1:00pm (EDT), then CBS takes over from 1:00pm to 7:00pm (EDT).
STREAMING: ESPN will stream coverage online and ESPN+ ($) will provide Featured Groups and Featured Holes. See: (link)
ONLINE and RADIO COVERAGE: Beginning at 1pm (EDT) on Thursday, May 20 and continuing through the completion of each day’s play, hear live hole-by-hole coverage co-produced by SiriusXM and Westwood One. PGA Radio is available on Sirius 208/XM 92) or online on PGATour.com. For additional information, see: Sirius XM Blog
How to Watch: (PGATourCom)
Welcome to PGA Tour Brunch – 1st Look at PGA Championship
The 2021 PGA Championship is the 34th of 50 events on the PGA Tour. It is organized by the PGA of America.
Collin Morikawa won his first major championship title at the 2020 PGA Championship and will attempt to become the eighth player to successfully defend his title. The most recent was Brooks Koepka, 2018/2019. In 2020, Morikawa became the third-youngest to win the PGA Championship since WWII, behind Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
Five players have won the Career Grand Slam and Jordan Spieth can become the sixth with a win on the Ocean Course. Spieth won the 2015 Masters Tournament, 2015 U.S. Open and 2017 Open Championship. He is making his fifth start in the PGA Championship since the 2017 Open (T-28/2017, T-12/2018, T-3/2019, T-71/2020).
The 2021 PGA Championship will be played at the Pete and Alice Dye-designed Ocean Course at Kiawah for the second time in tournament history and first since 2012. In 2012, Rory McIlroy won the tournament by eight strokes, the largest margin of victory in PGA Championship history. McIlroy is making his first start since the Wells Fargo Championship, where he earned his 19th PGA Tour victory and his first of the season.
PGA Championship Tee Times begin Thursday at 7:00am (EDT) through 2:42pm (EDT).
Weather: Kiawah Island can be windy! Thursday’s forecast is for sunny skies and 53-degrees but winds will blow 26 mph NW. No chance of rain.
PGATourBrunch will be posting at 7:00am (EDT) Thursday and Friday.
Next Week: Charles Schwab Challenge (Colonial, Fort Worth, Texas)
Field Update:
Vijay Singh (WD) / Wyndham Clark (in)
