2011 PGA Championship: Keegan Bradley wins at Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course)
Keegan Bradley won the 2011 PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course) in Johns Creek, Georgia with 272 (−8), beating Jason Dufner in a playoff.
Updated October 23, 2026
See 2011 in Wanamaker Avenue, the PGA Championship room, or every year on the PGA Championship winners list.
- Dates
- August 11, 2011 to August 14, 2011
- Course
- Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course), Johns Creek, Georgia
- Edition
- 93rd PGA Championship
- Format
- stroke play
- Par
- 70 · 7,467 yards
- Field
- 156
- Made the cut
- 75 (cut at 144)
- Purse
- $8,000,000 · winner's share $1,445,000
- Champion
- Keegan Bradley · age 25 · United States · born Woodstock, Vermont
- Champion's title
- 1st PGA Championship
- World ranking
- No. 108
- Winning score
- 71-64-69-68 = 272 (−8)
- Runner-up
- Jason Dufner
- 54-hole leaders
- Jason Dufner, Brendan Steele (203) · Keegan Bradley was 1 stroke back
- Playoff
- 3-hole aggregate (holes 16, 17, 18); beat Jason Dufner; Bradley 3-3-4 = 10; Dufner 4-4-3 = 11; 18 (aggregate settled)
- Caddie
- Steve "Pepsi" Hale
- Low club professional
- Mike Small (292)
Winner and runner-up
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keegan Bradley | 71 | 64 | 69 | 68 | 272 | −8 |
| 2 | Jason Dufner | 70 | 65 | 68 | 69 | 272 | −8 |
What happened at the 2011 PGA Championship
Bradley triple-bogeyed the 15th on Sunday, then birdied 16 and 17 while Dufner bogeyed 15, 16 and 17, wiping out a five-shot lead with three to play.
Bradley was the first player to win a major with a long putter and the first to win in his first major start since Ben Curtis in 2003.
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).
Sources
- PGA of America history
- Golf Compendium 2011
- Today's Golfer purse history
- Salarysport prize-money history
- PGA of America 2011 leaderboard
- Covers cut history
- The Golf News Net, Bradley and Hale
- The Golf News Net 2011 results
- Sportscasting
- PGA of America club pros who made the cut
- PGA of America 2013 media guide, p. 19
- Golf Compendium playoff results