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Saturday, May 18, 2019 Brooks Koepka maintained his seven stroke lead after a level-par 70, a round that included three birdies and three bogeys. His seven shot lead after three rounds was a record for the PGA Championship, although he failed to break the 54-hole scoring record of 196 held by David Toms in the 2001 championship . [ 20 ]
The Memorial Tournament (branded as the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday for sponsorship reasons) is a PGA Tour golf tournament founded in 1976 by Jack Nicklaus. It is played on a Nicklaus-designed course at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb north of Columbus. The golf course passes through a large neighborhood ...
World Golf Championships and major events (all Open Championships and U.S.-based majors since 1998) are also considered official European Tour events but they are covered in the PGA Tour section. Woods was never a member of the European Tour and therefore did not qualify to count his winnings towards the career money list .
It was his fifth Masters championship, his 15th major championship, and his 81st PGA Tour win. [1] 16–19 May: PGA Championship – Brooks Koepka won by two strokes over Dustin Johnson for his second consecutive PGA Championship victory. He is the first player to simultaneously hold the last two titles of two different major championships ...
Beginning in 2019, the tournament is played in May on the weekend before Memorial Day, as the season's second major following the Masters Tournament in April. It is an official money event on the PGA Tour , European Tour , and Japan Golf Tour , with a purse of $ 11 million for the 100th edition in 2018 .
As a part of a restructuring of the schedule, the event moved to the fall in 2019. Because the tour year starts the previous fall, the event was not a part of the 2019 PGA Tour, but was one of the first events of the 2020 PGA Tour. [2] It is held at the Memorial Park Municipal Golf Course in Harris County near downtown Houston and the Galleria.
The schedule contained 46 events, two fewer than the previous season. The schedule was shortened in an effort to complete the FedEx Cup Playoffs by the end of August.. As announced in 2017, the PGA Championship was moved from August to May on the weekend before Memorial Day, starting in 2019.
The 2019–20 PGA Tour was the 105th season of the PGA Tour, ... Memorial) would be expanded from the usual 120-player field to become full-field (144 golfer) events. ...