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is for GENE SARAZEN, who won the championship on three occasions (1922, 1923 and 1933). The son of an Italian immigrant (Sarazen was born Eugenio Saraceni) would become the first golfer to win all four majors – the career Grand Slam – when he triumphed at the 1935 Masters after famously holing a four-wood from 235 yards at the fifteenth hole for an albatross. Sarazen is also credited with inventing the sand wedge.

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is for HOME ADVANTAGE. Players from the United States have claimed 76 of the 92 championships played thus far. Only Australia (with four), South Africa, England, Zimbabwe and Fiji (each with two) have seen their own triumph on more than one occasion.

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is for INVERNESS CLUB, which hosted the 1993 and 1986 tournaments that saw Greg Norman finish second on both occasions. In 1986, Bob Tway holed a bunker shot at the final hole to defeat the Great White Shark after the latter let slip a hefty back-nine lead; seven years later, Paul Azinger overcame the unlucky Australian in a sudden-death play-off.

J

is for JIM BARNES, the championship's first winner. Barnes won the inaugural event in 1916 at Siwanoy Country Club in New York, beating Jock Hutchison 1up in the final. Barnes earned US$500 for his efforts. He would also win second event, which was in 1919 after a hiatus of three years due to World War I. He remains to this day the only Englishman to have won the title.

K

is for KIDS. The pundits seem to be expecting the likes of Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Rickie Fowler to blossom at the US PGA but the fact remains that the championship seems to favour the older golfer. Last year's winner Martin Kaymer became only the third 20-something in the last two decades to triumph at the event following his play-off win over Bubba Watson.

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is for LOWEST AGGREGATE. David Toms holds the aggregate scoring record with 265 (also the lowest in major championship history), which he achieved at the 2001 edition. But because the Atlanta Athletic Club was playing as a par 70, his 15-under-par total was not the lowest of all time. Tiger Woods and Bob May scorched to 18-under-par of the 2000 event at Valhalla Golf Club, a par 72 layout, before Woods won in a play-off. Woods also finished 18-under at Medinah Country Club, site of his third US PGA victory in 2006.