DID YOU KNOW – US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
• There are 53 European Tour Members competing in the final Major Championship of the season.
• Of those 53, six are playing in the US PGA Championship for the first time. They are: Byeong Hun An, Emiliano Grillo, Tyrrell Hatton, James Morrison, Eddie Pepperell and Andy Sullivan.
• Of those six, Emiliano Grillo is the only one yet to have played in a Major Championship.
• Keegan Bradley won the 2011 US PGA Championship in his first appearance in a Major Championship. He was the first player to win a Major Championship in their first appearance since Ben Curtis at the 2003 Open Championship.
• Jordan Spieth is bidding for his third Major Championship of the 2015 season. Should he triumph he would join Ben Hogan (1953) and Tiger Woods (2000), as the only players to win three of the four Majors in the same season.
• Whistling Straits is staging the US PGA Championship for the third time. On both previous occasions the tournament has been won by European Tour Members and both via a play-off. In 2004 Vijay Singh defeated Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard. In 2010 Martin Kaymer saw off Bubba Watson.
• Open Champion Zach Johnson will be attempting to win back-to-back Major crowns. Should he prevail he would follow Rory McIlroy, who achieved this feat in 2014. Others to win the final two Majors of the year in the last 25 years are: Nick Price (1994), Tiger Woods (2000 and 2006) and Padraig Harrington (2008).
• Should a European Tour Member win the US PGA Championship, it would be their sixth triumph since 2008. The winners were: Padraig Harrington (2008), Y E Yang (2009), Martin Kaymer (2010) and Rory McIlroy (2012 and 2014).
• There are 25 European Tour Members who competed in the 2010 US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
• Søren Kjeldsen will have a reason to celebrate at this year’s US PGA Championship. He becomes the first Dane to reach the milestone of 500 European Tour events. In all the 40 year old is the 30th player to reach the landmark and only the eighth of the 30 to come from Continental Europe.
