The PGA Championship has truly become a worldwide event thanks largely to the past two Champions
representing South Korea and Ireland,
respectively – along with the extensive TV
and online coverage of the event available
to golf fans around the globe.
Last year, nearly 200 countries and 581
million viewers tuned into televised
coverage of the PGA Championship from
Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska,
Minn., where Y.E. Yang became the first
Asian-born winner of a men’s major
championship. The PGA of America’s
broadcasting agreement with Tokyo
Broadcasting System ( TBS), Jupiter Golf
Network and Dentsu beamed Yang’s
historic victory into millions on Japanese
homes – likely acting as catalyst for
growing interest in the game among
Asian countries.
This year, CBS Sports and TNT have
reprised their roles as the U.S. broadcast
partners for the PGA Championship, with
additional on-site reporting by Golf
Channel. CBS Sports’ coverage of the
2010 PGA Championship – “The Season’s
Final Major, Glory’s Last Shot” – began
PGA Championship coverage available through a multitude of outlets
with the one-hour network
special Road to the PGA
Championship that first
aired July 25 on CBS. This is
the 20th consecutive year
CBS Sports has covered the
PGA Championship.
TN T, in its 11th consecutive
year of broadcasting the
PGA Championship,
provides exclusive live
coverage of the first two rounds, along
with coverage of the early hours during
the weekend rounds. In total, CBS and
TNT will provide 30 hours of live television
coverage from the 92nd PGA
Championship.
Turner Sports, the parent company of
TNT, also provides online coverage
through the recently revamped PGA.com.
Live broadband coverage is available
through TNT simulcast, exclusive live
PGA Championship Television Times
(all times Central, subject to change)
TNT CBS Sports
11 a.m.–Noon
11:37–12:07 a.m.
11:37–12:07 a.m.
1–6 p.m.
1–6 p.m.
Preview Show, Sunday, Aug. 8
First Round, Thursday, Aug. 12
Second Round, Friday, Aug. 13
Third Round, Saturday, Aug. 14
Fourth Round, Sunday, Aug. 15
Noon– 7 p.m.
Noon– 7 p.m.
10 a.m.– 1 p.m.
10 a.m.– 1 p.m.
video streams, bonus coverage and
exclusive written reports from Whistling
Straits. In 2009 PGA.com posted record
numbers with 1. 4 million unique visitors
each day of the PGA Championship.
There were 206 million page views in
total during the 91st PGA Championship
at Hazeltine National, a 68 percent
increase over the previous year.
Direc TV subscribers will able to view
expanded coverage via three dedicated
channels (chs. 702-705). In addition, the
exclusive Mix Channel (ch. 701) allows to
see all three of the channels together
(Marquee Group, Featured Hole and
Players in Depth) as well as the primary
CBS telecast.
and Sam Snead were among those to lay
claim to the Wanamaker Trophy. Hagen
won four PGA Championships in a row in
the mid-1920s, and his record of five total
PGA Championships has been equaled
only by Jack Nicklaus.
The PGA Championship switched to its
current stroke play format in 1958. The
format calls for four rounds of
18 holes,
with the field reduced to the low
70 scorers
and ties after the first
36 holes have been
completed. If there’s a tie after
72 holes, a
three-hole aggregate score playoff is held
on holes
10,
17 and
18. If a tie remains after
three holes, the remaining players will play
a hole by hole playoff until one emerges
victorious.
Many of the game’s greatest names have
earned the title of PGA Champion during
the stroke play era, from the
aforementioned Nicklaus to Gary Player,
Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd,
Payne Stewart, Vijay Singh, Tiger
Woods and Phil Mickelson.
Appropriately for an event first
won by Barnes, a player born on
foreign soil, the PGA
Championship has become a
truly international event. More than
20
countries were represented in the field of
the 2009 PGA Championship, and with
his victory last year at Hazeltine National
Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., Y.E. Yang
Since 1916, 12 internationally born players have
combined to win 16 PGA Championships –
most recently South Korea’s Y.E. Yang at last
year's Championship at Hazeltine National
Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.
PGA Championship factoid
28 THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF THE 2010 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
became the first Asian-born male golfer to
win a major championship. Off the course,
875 media representatives from a total of
13
countries covered the event, and the
Championship was televised in 197
countries, giving the event a potential reach
of more than 581 million households.
Bolstered by players from around the
globe, the PGA Championship has become
known as the major championship with the
strongest field. When Whistling Straits
hosted the event in 2004, it boasted more
players from the top
100 of the Official
World Golf Ranking than any other event
that season. As you would expect, getting
into the field is no easy matter. The field is
made up of all past winners of the PGA
Championship, winners from the last five
Masters, U.S. Opens and Open
Championships, the 2010 Senior PGA
Champion (Tom Lehman), the low
15 scorers
and ties from the 2009 PGA Championship,
the low
20 scorers at the 2010 PGA
Professional National Championship, the
70 leaders on the PGA Championship
points list (compiled from the 2009 WGC
Bridgestone Invitational through the 2010
Greenbrier Classic), and winners of
tournaments approved by the PGA Tour
from the 2009 PGA Championship through
this week. In addition, The PGA of America
reserves the right to invite additional players
not included in these categories to fill the
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