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Sunday 10 August 2008PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review
Harrington wins PGA Championship
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan · Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 August 2008 · Padraig Harrington’s win no. 5 on the PGA Tour · purse $7,500,000 USD · 90th PGA Championship; thunderstorms suspended play Saturday afternoon, third round completed Sunday morning and the final round played the same day off split tees
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 54 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 63° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R125°/16°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 1.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R225°/15°C · wind 20 km/h NNW, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R324°/14°C · wind 21 km/h W, gusts 45 · 12.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R419°/11°C · wind 23 km/h NW, gusts 50 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- PGA Championship
1916–2026 in our record, 108 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Sergio Garcia ESP · 279Led by three going to the 10th; hit his approach into the water at 16 for a bogey, then Harrington holed a 10-foot birdie at 17 and a par putt of about 15 feet at 18 PGA Championship, August 10, 2008: Padraig Harrington / Sergio Garcia (ASAP Sports)
- Ben Curtis USA · 27954-hole leader by one; closed with a 1-over 71 after bogeys around the turn PGA Championship, August 10, 2008: Ben Curtis (ASAP Sports)
156 started · cut +8, 73 made it
Same week
Men's major
PGA Championship
Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course), Bloomfield Hills
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Curtis, Sergio García
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
10 August 2008
I really DO like the fact that no other European has won two Majors consecutively. Because obviously I obviously hold a lot of European players who I grew up watching in high esteem.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
10 August 2008
And the only thing from experience that I know is that in a Major, nobody goes without making some mistakes. So as long as I could hang in there, I knew that I would get my opportunity
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
10 August 2008
Next question, please. Let's try to keep this as positive as we can, please.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Padraig Harrington | 71 · 74 · 66 · 66 | 277 | −3 |
| T2 | Sergio Garcia | 69 · 73 · 69 · 68 | 279 | −1 |
| T2 | Ben Curtis | 73 · 67 · 68 · 71 | 279 | −1 |
| T4 | Camilo Villegas | 74 · 72 · 67 · 68 | 281 | +1 |
| T4 | Henrik Stenson | 71 · 70 · 68 · 72 | 281 | +1 |
| 6 | Steve Flesch | 73 · 70 · 70 · 69 | 282 | +2 |
| T7 | Andres Romero | 69 · 78 · 65 · 72 | 284 | +4 |
| T7 | Phil Mickelson | 70 · 73 · 71 · 70 | 284 | +4 |
| T9 | Alastair Forsyth | 73 · 72 · 70 · 70 | 285 | +5 |
| T9 | Justin Rose | 73 · 67 · 74 · 71 | 285 | +5 |
| T9 | Jeev Milkha Singh | 68 · 74 · 70 · 73 | 285 | +5 |
| T9 | Charlie Wi | 70 · 70 · 71 · 74 | 285 | +5 |
The golfer
born 1971-08-31, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland; IRL; turned pro 1995; age 36 that week; tour wins to date: 5; majors to date: 3; world No. 3 that week (OWGR rankBefore (owgr.com player profile, 90th PGA Championship)).
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