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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.
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 ]
For a decade he has been trying to land that coveted Green Jacket to satisfy a set that currently includes trophies from two US PGA Championships (2012 and 2014), The Open (2014) and US Open (2011).
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The Players Championship: PGA Tour: Matt Kuchar: 22–25 May: NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships: U.S. college championship: Alabama / Chirapat Jao-Javanil: 24–27 May: BMW PGA Championship: European Tour: Luke Donald: 24–27 May: Senior PGA Championship: Senior major: Roger Chapman: 29 May–3 Jun: NCAA Division I Men's Golf ...
Twenty-six time PGA Tour winner Rory McIlroy would join all-time golf legends by finally winning Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club
Players are listed here in order of their first win. For much of the modern era the four major championships have been played chronologically in the order listed, but this has not always been the case, and starting in 2019 the PGA Championship was rescheduled as the second major of the year. In 2020, a year dramatica