The 2020 PGA Championship was the first of the majors held on August 6 – 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was won by Collin Morikawa

*Note: The 2020 PGA Championship was moved to August and was the first of the majors to take place for the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic

The PGA Championship is now the second major golfing championship held annually in May*, on the weekend leading up to Memorial Day, having been moved up from its previous mid-August position from 2019 on.  Chronologically on the major golf championships calendar, the PGA Championship – often called the US PGA – follows on from The US Masters in March.

Running at various golf courses around America, the PGA Championship offers an $11 million prize fund and is it is known for its exclusivity as the field features an almost completing pro-player line-up. It is the only one of the four golf majors not to definitively allow the Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings into the field. That said, the Top 100 players are usually invited if not already qualified.

Established in 1916, the PGA Championships traditionally runs in the eastern half of the US with the west of the country only hosting 10 previous editions of the time-honoured tournament.

US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2020

• US PGA Championship Tournament Dates: August 6 – 9, 2020 (Moved from May to August due to COVID-19)
• Location: TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, California, USA
• Edition: 102nd
• Field: 156 maximum
• Winner’s Prize Fund: $1.98 million
• 2020 PGA Championship Winner: Collin Morikawa (USA)
• Winning 2020 PGA Championship Score: 267 (-13)

The 102nd edition of the PGA Championship was originally set to run from May 14 – 17, 2020 at the TPC Harding Park course in San Francisco, California. It was the first time the Bay Area has hosted the tournament and the first PGA Championship to take place in California after a quarter of a century.

Collin Morikawa won in his PGA Championship debut. The twenty-three-year-old became the third youngest winner of the tournament (since WWII). He also set a PGA Championship record scoring 129 strokes (65-64) for the final 36 holes.

The 2020 PGA Championship dates were changed to August 6 – 9, 2020 due to COVID-19.

US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT

• Venue: Various locations across the US
• Date: May (August in 2020 due to COVID-19)
• Inauguration: 1916
• Par: 72 (in 2020)
• Length: 7,169 yards (6,555 m)
• Format: Stroke Play (1958 – present)
• Tours: European Tour, PGA Tour, Japan Golf Tour
• Prize Money: US $11 million (in 2020)
• Current PGA Championship Champion: Collin Morikawa (2020)

The PGA Championship is often known outside its home country as the US PGA Championship and from 1958 – the present day is a Stroke Play formatted golfing major. Prior to 1958, the PGA Championship took place as a Match Play scoring system before the format change saw it fall into line with the other golf majors.

Future sites for the PGA Championship have been announced right up until the 2034 (116th) edition.

Each year the PGA Champion is invited to attend all three other golf majors, along with The Players Championship, for the next five years. The PGA Championship winner is also awarded a replica of the Wanamaker Trophy, named in honour of the late Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863 – 1928) who was a department store tycoon and golfing enthusiast. Wanamaker donated the very first PGA Championship gold medal awarded to inaugural champ Jim Barnes who also received a $500 cash prize!

Future PGA Championship Venues

PGA Championship Records

PGA Championship Winners