12 FAST & FASCINATING FACTS
- Rory McIlroy holds the course record for Quail Hollow, carding an 11-under-par 61 at the 2015 Wells Fargo Championship, having previously held the record with a 62 shot at the same event in 2010.
- Quail Hollow has hosted a PGA Tour event every year since 2003, first the Wachovia Championship, then the Wells Fargo Championship, but missed-out in 2016 whilst major changes were made ahead of the 99th U.S. PGA Championship in August 2017.
- The inaugural U.S. PGA Championship was held in October 1916 at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, New York.[3] The winner, Jim Barnes, received US$500 and a diamond-studded gold medal donated by Rodman Wanamaker.
- The Wanamaker Trophy - the original of which the champion gets to keep for a year - is the largest in professional golf; it weighs in at about 27lbs. and is about 2 feet tall and 2 feet wide from handle to handle. Past champions can purchase a 90% scale replica should they so wish.
- The record scores in the U.S. PGA Championship are, to Par, minus-20 by Jason Day at Whistling Straits in 2015, and by aggregate, David Toms at the Atlanta Athletic Club.
- The U.S. PGA Championship was originally played in a match-play format, but changed to stroke-play in 1958, when the first prize went down from US$8,000 to US$5,500 but rose to US$8,250 in 1959.
- Walter Hagen and Jack Nicklaus lead the way with five U.S. PGA Championship wins, closely followed by Tiger Woods with four to date.
- The state of New York has hosted the U.S. PGA Championship a record twelve times, with Ohio on 11 occasions and Pennsylvania nine so far.
- Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri will host the 2018 U.S. PGA Championship for the second time; Nick Price lifted the Wanamaker Trophy there in 1992.
- Gene Sarazen remains the youngest player ever to win the U.S. PGA Championship; he was just 20-years, 4-months and 22-days when he defeated Emmet French 4&3 in the 1922 event at Oakmont.
- American Julius Boros was 48-years, 4-months, 18-days old when was one stroke better than Bob Charles and Arnold Palmer on his way to winning the 1968 PGA Championship at Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas, the oldest man ever to lift the Wanamaker Trophy.
- The first prize at the U.S. PGA Championship has risen from US$500 won by Jim Barnes in 1916, to US$5,000 in 1953, US$11,000 in 1960, US$50,000 in 1978, US$100,000 in 1983, US$540,000 in 1998, US$1m in 2003 with the 2017 champion earning US$ 1,890,000.
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