When the PGA Championship returns to Valhalla this week for the first time since 2014, Thomas hopes to emulate his mate Tiger Woods and leave town with the Wanamaker Trophy.
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.
A couple of Adelaide locals have gone viral after recording themselves sneaking into Grange Golf Club during the second edition of LIV Golf Adelaide and, well, living it up on the tournament’s famous party hole.
Woods joins a list of legendary golfers who have received special exemptions from the USGA that includes Jack Nicklaus (seven times), Arnold Palmer (five times) and Tom Watson (five times).
Talor Gooch will not be trying to qualify for next month’s US Open. And let’s just say it’s a pretty big lock that the USGA will not extend him a special exemption like it did overnight for Tiger Woods.
Australian Golf Digest
