Mickelson has never been afraid to take a trip to TinkerTown, USA, on a major week. The fact he’s had so much success in doing so is further proof he’s a unicorn.
Welcome to the the 106th PGA at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. The horse-racing town will welcome the world’s best golfers as the second men’s major of 2024 gets underway. Here are some of the storylines you should be watching for.
PGA of America president John Lindert said the quiet part out loud when it comes to the golf ball rollback that the R&A and USGA have slated to take effect in 2028: namely, that average golfers might not abide by it. At least initially.
Cameron Smith is predicting a long, wet week upon his first trip to Valhalla Golf Club, but hot form on a globe-trotting schedule recently has prepared the major winner for anything the PGA Championship can throw at him.
Respect it or not, Valhalla delivers reliably great stories. There’s magic in the air in Kentucky, a strange kind of gothic voodoo, and it settles like the hot air in this specific patch of the Ohio River Valley.
In the next decade, the PGA will continue to return to familiar host sites – notably Quail Hollow in 2025, Baltusrol in 2029 and Kiawah Island’s Ocean course in 2031 – but also will visit courses last seen on the men’s side when they hosted the US Open, including San Francisco’s Olympic Club and Congressional, located just outside Washington, DC.
Receiving invites were Australia’s Lucas Herbert, Dean Burmester, Adrian Meronk and David Puig. Two of those players – Herbert and Meronk – are also inside the top 100 of the OWGR.
Australian Golf Digest
