2008 PGA Championship
The 2008 PGA Championship was the 90th PGA Championship, played from August 7–10 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 7–10, 2008 |
| Location | Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
| Course(s) | Oakland Hills Country Club, South Course |
| Organized by | PGA of America |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour PGA European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,395 yards (6,762 m) |
| Field | 156 players, 73 after cut |
| Cut | 148 (+8) |
| Prize fund | $7,500,000 €4,804,330 |
| Winner's share | $1,350,000 €867,219 |
| Champion | |
| Pádraig Harrington | |
| 277 (−3) | |
Country Club
Country Club
Pádraig Harrington won his second consecutive major and third overall, two strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Curtis and Sergio García. He earned $1.35 million for the victory, and became the first European-born winner of the PGA Championship in 78 years, last accomplished in the match play era by Tommy Armour of Scotland in 1930 (by then a naturalized U.S. citizen). Harrington was the first winner from Ireland, and the first European to win The Open Championship and the PGA Championship in the same year.
It was the ninth major championship contested at the South Course and the first in twelve years, when Steve Jones won the 1996 U.S. Open. The PGA Championship returned to "The Monster" for the first time in 29 years; the 1979 event was won by David Graham.
Tiger Woods, the two-time defending champion, did not compete due to rehabilitation for a season-ending knee surgery following his playoff victory in the U.S. Open in June.
The South Course previously hosted the PGA Championship in 1972 and 1979, the U.S. Open in 1924, 1937, 1951, 1961, 1985, and 1996, and the Ryder Cup in 2004.