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The 2022 PGA Championship was a professional golf tournament, held May 19–22 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was the 104th PGA Championship . This was the fifth PGA Championship at Southern Hills and its eighth major championship .
It is the only major that does not explicitly invite leading amateurs to compete (it is possible for amateurs to get into the field, although the only viable ways are by winning one of the other major championships, or winning a PGA Tour event while playing on a sponsor's exemption), and the only one that reserves so many places, 20 of 156, for ...
19–22 May: PGA Championship – Justin Thomas won in a 3-hole playoff against Will Zalatoris. [3] It was his second PGA Championship victory, and his second overall major championship victory. Out of 22 players who have won multiple PGA Championships, Thomas was only the fifth player to win the event twice before turning 30.
The Tour Championship was played August 25–28. 30 golfers qualified for the tournament. Will Zalatoris did not play due to a back injury, reducing the field to 29. [10] There was no second-round cut. Players were allocated a starting score relative to par based on their position in the standings after the BMW Championship. The points leader ...
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 ...
Preceding the first event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series in London, the PGA Tour announced on June 1, 2022, that they would sanction players who competed in the event. [2] Seventeen PGA Tour members played in the event, including major champions Phil Mickelson , Dustin Johnson , Sergio García , Martin Kaymer , Louis Oosthuizen , Charl ...
The Players Championship at one point offered the highest purse of any tournament in golf (from $12.5 million in 2019 up to $25 million in 2023). [3] [4] The field usually includes the top 50 players in the world rankings, but, unlike the major championships, it is owned by the PGA Tour and not an official event on other tours.
The field consisted of 144 players meeting various criteria; they include tournament winners on the PGA Tour since the previous Players Championship, recent winners of major championships, The Players and World Golf Championships, and leading players in the FedEx Cup standings from the current and preceding seasons.