When the 2024 PGA Championship takes place at Valhalla Golf Club, it will mark the seventh marquee event the Kentucky venue has hosted since 1996.
Previously, three PGA Championships, two Senior PGA Championships and one Ryder Cup have been contested across the Louisville land with all but the team event being decided by the thinnest of margins – one stroke.
Almost all of the greats in the men’s game have teed it up there, but only a handful have ever walked away triumphant at the end of a serious examination of their golf games.
Here are the five solo (and one team) winners at Valhalla Golf Club…
1996 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP – MARK BROOKS
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Hosting its first Major, Valhalla opened up with a cracker in 1996 as Texas-born Mark Brooks came from behind to beat Kentucky favorite Kenny Perry in a playoff.
Perry blew a two-stroke lead by bogeying his final hole in regulation and watching Brooks birdie the 18th some half an hour later. Brooks then birdied the first playoff hole as Perry found trouble via the left rough.
Afterwards, Brooks said: “I’ve learned a lot of about life through golf. That’s what today was all about. Fighting through the bad and knowing something good is at the end.”
2000 PGA Championship – Tiger Woods
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Tiger Woods claimed his fifth Major and second PGA Championship victory via a playoff success over Bob May in 2000 at Valhalla. It was the lowest winning score at Valhalla by some way, too, at 18-under.
That year’s PGA Championship also happened to be Jack Nicklaus‘ final appearance at the tournament, with the Golden Bear playing alongside Woods and Vijay Singh in the first two rounds.
After the 60-year-old missed the cut by one shot in Kentucky, Woods went on to lift the title by the same margin. Another of Woods’ iconic moments occurred when the 15-time Major winner ran after and pointed at what turned out to be the decisive putt on the first of three playoff holes.
2004 Senior PGA Championship – Hale Irwin
World Golf Hall of Famer Hale Irwin has 4 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship titles & we’re just 4 days away from teeing it up at Harbor Shores.@KitchenAid_Golf | #SrPGA pic.twitter.com/DYBYcjCMKqMay 23, 2022
From one dominant figure to another, Hale Irwin collected his fourth Senior PGA Championship…
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