2008 PGA Championship: Padraig Harrington wins at Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course)

Padraig Harrington won the 2008 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan with 277 (−3), by 2 strokes over Ben Curtis and Sergio García.

Updated October 23, 2026

See 2008 in Wanamaker Avenue, the PGA Championship room, or every year on the PGA Championship winners list.

Dates: August 7, 2008 to August 10, 2008
Course: Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Edition: 90th PGA Championship
Format: stroke play
Par: 70 · 7,445 yards
Field: 156
Made the cut: 73 (cut at 148)
Purse: $7,500,000 · winner's share $1,350,000
Champion: Padraig Harrington · age 36 · Ireland · born Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Champion's title: 1st PGA Championship
World ranking: No. 3
Winning score: 71-74-66-66 = 277 (−3) · won by 2 strokes
Runners-up: Ben Curtis, Sergio García
54-hole leader: Ben Curtis (208) · Padraig Harrington was 3 strokes back
Caddie: Ronan Flood

Winner and runners-up

Pos.	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par
1	Padraig Harrington	71	74	66	66	277	−3
T2	Ben Curtis	73	67	68	71	279	−1
T2	Sergio García	69	73	69	68	279	−1

What happened at the 2008 PGA Championship

Harrington came from three shots behind Ben Curtis with weekend rounds of 66-66 and became the first European to win the PGA since the 1930s and the first Irishman ever.

Defending champion Tiger Woods did not play, having had knee surgery a couple of months earlier.

How this was built

Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's PGA Championship data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.

Data: pga.json (the PGA Championship room's data: Tables 1A–1H).

2008 PGA Championship: Padraig Harrington wins at Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course)

Winner and runners-up

What happened at the 2008 PGA Championship

How this was built

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