Jack Nicklaus won the 1980 PGA by seven shots at Oak Hill, and Shaun Micheel hit the shot of his life at the final hole to win in 2003.Īustralia has pitched seven players into the field with most of them being in good form, especially Cameron Smith who was narrowly beaten in the LIV Tulsa event last week and Jason Day, who won his first PGA Tour event for five years.ĭay has been improving consistently for the past six months and as a past winner of the PGA, may well start one of the favourites this week along with the likes of Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Scotty Scheffler, Dustin Johnson and Smith. Oak Hill is no stranger to big-time golf it previously hosted three US Opens and three PGA Championships totalling six majors, plus Ryder Cups and Senior majors.
Many of those have been taken out to give the course a more open feel but at par- yards, it will present a strong major championship test this week with the lurking danger of Allen’s Creek meandering through the course. Ross contracted John Williams, a celebrated doctor, author and arbourist to plant the oak trees at the course, and he would later say when he was asked how many he planted: “I stopped counting at 40,000.” It is a storied venue, built by Donald Ross in 1926 during the so-called golden period of golf architecture, and tweaked since, most notably in 2019 when hundreds of trees were removed, the greens enlarged and reshaped, water hazards added and bunkers rebuilt.Ī parkland course in suburban Rochester, it is described as “an American classic”.
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