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The victory margin was a record for the PGA Championship, surpassing the seven-stroke win in 1980 by Jack Nicklaus for his fifth PGA and seventeenth major title. The winner of the U.S. Open in 2011, also by eight strokes, McIlroy became the sixth-youngest winner of two majors at 23 years and 3 months. [3] [4] [5]
On 12 August 2012, McIlroy won the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island (Ocean Course) in South Carolina. McIlroy would win by eight strokes, setting a margin-of-victory record for the PGA Championship with a birdie on the final hole.
Other leading PGA Tour events. 10–13 May: The Players Championship – American Matt Kuchar won by two strokes over four others. For a complete list of PGA Tour results see 2012 PGA Tour. Leading European Tour events. 24–27 May: BMW PGA Championship – Englishman Luke Donald won for the second straight year and again became the World ...
The same cannot be said of the venue for the year's second major, Quail Hollow, which will stage the US PGA Championship in May. McIlroy won his first PGA Tour title there 15 years ago and his ...
By Paul Newberry LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Rory McIlroy goes to the weekend of the PGA Championship with a one-stroke lead. It seems bigger than that. Such is the state of McIlroy's game.
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Jason Day holds the record for most strokes under par for 72 holes, 20, when he won the 2015 PGA Championship. This is the record under par score in all major championships. [4] The PGA Championship has had three wire-to-wire champions: Bobby Nichols in 1964, Raymond Floyd in 1982, and Hal Sutton in 1983. [5]
The news came out at the BMW PGA Championship, Europe's biggest event. He wound up winning for the first time that year, then captured two majors and a World Golf Championship. McIlroy had not played at Valhalla since he won in near darkness in 2014, managing to squeeze in a practice round between spells of showers.