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The 2008 PGA Championship was the 90th PGA Championship, played from August 7–10 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. Pádraig Harrington won his second consecutive major and third overall, two strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Curtis and Sergio García .
The 2008 PGA Tour was the 93rd season of the PGA Tour, ... PGA Championship: Michigan 7,500,000 Pádraig Harrington (5) 100 Major championship: Aug 17 Wyndham ...
The Players Championship: PGA Tour: Sergio García: 20–23 May: NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships: U.S. college championship: Southern Cal. / Azahara Muñoz: 22–25 May: BMW PGA Championship: European Tour: Miguel Ángel Jiménez: 22–25 May: Senior PGA Championship: Senior major: Jay Haas: 28–31 May: NCAA Division I Men's Golf ...
Law and crime Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, is sentenced to 66 months in prison for war crimes. (The New York Times) The Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is ordered to go to jail for violating the terms of his bond for an ongoing perjury trial. (NPR) Politics and elections The leaders of the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état promise to hold elections as soon as possible. (Xinhua ...
a The PGA Championship was not held from 1917 to 1918 because of World War I. b The 1943 PGA Championship was not held because of World War II. c Par is a predetermined number of strokes that a golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the total pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the total pars of each ...
Oakland Hills is full of history and epic champions. The restored South Course will be home to 8 USGA tournaments by 2051.
The 2008 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held May 8–11 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 35th Players Championship .
On 11 May 2008, García won The Players Championship on the PGA Tour in a sudden-death playoff against Paul Goydos. The playoff began at the par-3 17th, where Goydos hit a pitching wedge that ballooned and fell inches short of the island green and into the water, while García played a sand wedge to within four feet (1.3 m) of the hole.