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2013 PGA Championship

The 2013 PGA Championship was the 95th PGA Championship, played August 8–11 at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, a suburb southeast of Rochester. Jason Dufner won his first major title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Jim Furyk.

Venue

This was the third PGA Championship at the East Course at Oak Hill; Jack Nicklaus won in 1980 and Shaun Micheel in 2003. It also hosted three U.S. Opens, in 1956, 1968, and 1989, and the Ryder Cup in 1995.

Course layout

East Course

Source:[1][2]

Previous course lengths for major championships

Field

The following qualification criteria were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.[3]

1. All former PGA Champions

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions

3. Last five Masters Champions

4. Last five British Open Champions

5. Current Senior PGA Champion

6. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2012 PGA Championship

7. 20 low scorers in the 2013 PGA Professional National Championship

8. Top 70 leaders in official money standings from the 2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational to the 2013 RBC Canadian Open

9. Members of the United States and European 2012 Ryder Cup teams (provided they are ranked in the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking on July 28)

10. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2012 PGA Championship

11. Vacancies are filled by the first available player from the list of alternates (those below 70th place in official money standings).

12. The PGA of America reserves the right to invite additional players not included in the categories listed above

Alternates (per category 11):

  1. David Hearn – replaced Brendan Jones
  2. Matt Jones – took spot reserved for WGC-Bridgestone Invitational winner
  3. J. J. Henry – replaced Mark Brooks

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Jim Furyk and Adam Scott shot 5-under-par 65s and were tied for the lead after the first round.[8] Rain suspended play for 71 minutes.[9]

Second round

Friday, August 9, 2013

Jason Dufner posted a 7-under-par 63 to break the Oak Hill Country Club course record, which was held by Ben Hogan and Curtis Strange and tied in the same round by Webb Simpson.[10] He held a two-stroke lead over Furyk, Scott, and Matt Kuchar. Woody Austin suffered a four-stroke penalty for carrying too many clubs in his bag for the first two holes and missed the cut by one stroke.[11]

Third round

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Furyk shot a 68 to take the lead going into the final round. Dufner was one shot behind, and Henrik Stenson was two shots behind.[12] The low round of the day went to Dustin Johnson, who shot a 5-under-par 65 to move into a tie for ninth place.

Final round

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Jim Furyk went into the final round with a one-shot lead at nine-under-par over Jason Dufner, but was tied for the lead when Dufner birdied the fourth hole.[13] At the fifth hole, Dufner took the lead outright with a birdie to go 10-under-par, but Furyk regained a share of the lead with a birdie of his own on six.[13] At No. 8, Dufner took the lead with a birdie to move to 11-under-par, and from that point onwards he was the sole leader.[13] Furyk bogeyed the ninth hole and from that point until the end of the championship the margin was affixed at two strokes.[13] At No. 16, both golfers made birdie to go to 12-under and 10-under-par respectively, however at the subsequent two holes they made bogeys to finish out their respective rounds at 10-under and 8-under-par.[13] Dufner shot a two-under-par round of 68 to Furyk's one-over-par, 71.[14] Henrik Stenson, who started the day two shots out of the lead, pulled within one stroke after eagling the fourth hole, but never really threatened the leaders after that and finished the tournament in solo third place.[15]

Scorecard

Final round

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "2013 PGA Championship: course tour". PGA of America. 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "2013 PGA Championship: Course map and tour". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  3. ^ "2013 PGA Championship – Field List". PGA of America. July 29, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  4. ^ "John Daly cuts season short to have elbow surgery, missing last 2 majors". FOX News. July 8, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  5. ^ Lamport-Stokes, Mark (August 7, 2013). "Golf-Brooks withdraws from Oak Hill with unspecified injury". Yahoo! News. Reuters. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  6. ^ Betscher, Fatiha (July 2013). "Oosthuizen Neck Injury To Force Him Out Of Bridgestone Invitational & PGA Championship". Golf, by Tour Miss. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  7. ^ "PGA Tour golfer Blake Adams sidelined after hip surgery". The Augusta Chronicle. January 29, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  8. ^ Murray, Ewan (August 8, 2013). "Furyk and Scott set the pace with Westwood one step behind". The Guardian. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  9. ^ "Jim Furyk, Adam Scott tied for lead". ESPN. Associated Press. August 8, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  10. ^ "Dufner flirts with 62, settles for lead". ESPN. August 9, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  11. ^ Harig, Bob (August 9, 2013). "Woody Austin given 4-stroke penalty". ESPN. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  12. ^ "Jim Furyk up by 1 shot at PGA". ESPN. Associated Press. August 10, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
  13. ^ a b c d e "PGA: Jason Dufner holds off Furyk". ESPN. August 11, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
  14. ^ "Dufner wins maiden major title". News24. AFP. August 12, 2013.
  15. ^ Murray, Ewan (August 12, 2013). "Jason Dufner gains US PGA redemption with two-shot victory". The Guardian. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  16. ^ "2013 PGA Championship leaderboard". Yahoo! Sports. August 11, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.

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