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1 | April 2009
No. 3
GRAND SLAM OF GOLF
PGA GRANDPGA
SLAM
OF GOLF
THE LAST MAN STANDING AT AUGUSTA:
ARGENTINA’S ANGEL CABRERA GRINDS
HIS WAY TO BECOME SOUTH AMERICA’S
FIRST MASTERS CHAMPION
Jim Furyk
2008 PGA Grand Slam of Golf Champion
THE NEXT MAJOR
BERTHS TO FILL
THE GRAND
SLAM FOURSOME
• 1 09th U.S. Open,
June 18 - 21
• 138th Open Championship,
July 16 - 19
• 91st PGA Championship,
August 13 - 16
2009 PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF
Dates: October 19-21, 2009
Site: Port Royal Golf Course, Bermuda
Purse: $1.35 million
2008 Champion: Jim Furyk
Schedule of Activites:
Champions Clinic and Pro-Am,
Monday, October 19
First Round,
Tuesday, October 20
Second Round,
Wednesday, October 21
TNT will televise the
PGA Grand Slam of Golf to
88.9 million U.S. homes. It
will be seen in more than
100 countries worldwide.
Angel Cabrera, 2009 Masters Champion
Angel Cabrera became the first Argentine to win
the Green Jacket at Augusta (Ga.) National Golf
Club by surviving a wild final round that began
with a pulsating duel between Tiger Woods
and Phil Mickelson and ended with a stunning
collapse by Kenny Perry.
Two shots behind with two holes to play,
Cabrera fought his way into a three-way playoff
when the 48-year-old Perry, on the verge of
becoming golf's oldest major champion,
bogeyed the final two holes.
Even in the playoff with Perry and Chad Campbell,
Cabrera looked like the odd man out.
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THE 27th PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF
October 19-21, 2009
Port Royal Golf Course
2008 Masters Champion Trevor Immelman puts the Masters
Green Jacket on 2009 Champion Angel Cabrera
...The Masters (con’t)
He drove into the trees on the first playoff hole (the 18th), then hit
another shot off a Georgia pine with the ball coming to rest in the
middle of the fairway. He ultimately knocked home an 8-foot putt
for par.
Cabrera finished his rally with a routine par on the second extra hole
(the 10th) when Perry missed the green badly to the left – a shot he
later said contained a speck of mud – and made the most costly bogey
of them all.
"I may never get this opportunity ever again, but I had a lot of fun
being in there," said Perry, who also lost a sudden-death playoff in the
1996 PGA Championship. "I had the tournament to win. I lost the
tournament. But Angel hung in there. I was proud of him."
It was 41 years ago when Roberto de Vicenzo made one of golf's most
famous gaffes, signing for the wrong score that denied him a spot in
a Masters playoff.
De Vicenzo had given Cabrera a picture of a Green Jacket two years
ago when Cabrera returned home as U.S. Open champion and told him
to go for it. On this turbulent day, it took everything Cabrera had.
"This is a great moment, the dream of any golfer to win the Masters,"
Cabrera said through an interpreter during the Green Jacket ceremony.
"I'm so emotional I can barely talk."
Cabrera finished with a 1-under-par 71 to get into the first three-man
playoff at the Masters in 22 years.
Cabrera, who won the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont, erased a chapter
of disappointment for Argentina in the Masters.
Port Royal Golf Course
Port Royal Golf Course in Bermuda, which
the late architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. deemed
his finest work outside of the United States, is the
site for the 2009 and 2010 PGA Grand Slam
of Golf. The 2009 PGA Grand Slam of Golf will
be held Oct. 19-21.
Port Royal, a public course that opened for play
in 1970, has undergone a $13.7 million renovation
that extends the layout 281 yards to 6,824 yards.
The par-70 course began its renovation program
in January 2008, a project that included rebuilding
tees and greens and installing TifEagle grass.
All bunkers have been redesigned and a reverse
osmosis plant and course irrigation system has
been installed.
2008 PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF IN REVIEW
2009 MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP VENUES
109TH U.S. OPEN In 2002, The Black Course at Bethpage State Park
became the first municipally owned golf course to host a U.S. Open. At the
time, the 7,214-yard, par-70 layout, originally designed by A.W. Tillinghast
and later given a major facelift from Rees Jones, was the longest in Open history.
The parkland-style course more than proved itself as a major-championship venue,
with only champion Tiger Woods finishing the 72-hole competition under
par at 277 (three under). Some minor alterations have been for the 2009
U.S. Open, but the course should essentially feature the same challenging
characteristics that the world’s best golfers faced seven years ago.
Bethpage State Park, Black Course
138TH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Built as a luxury hotel and golf
Turnberry, Ailsa Course
course development by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company in
1903, Turnberry became a landing strip for planes of the Royal Flying Corps
during the Great War and then for Beaufighters and Liberators on antisubmarine and convoy protection patrols during the Second World War.
A massive two-year rebuilding program and re-design by Mackenzie Ross
led to the Ailsa Course being opened in 1951, with the resulting layout being
a fabulous convergence of top-quality links golf with a stunning cliff-top
location that serves to make Turnberry one of the most scenic golf courses in
the world. Turnberry will host its fourth Open Championship in July, but its
signature moment in golf history came in 1977 when Tom Watson edged Jack
Nicklaus by one stroke in what became known as “the Duel in the Sun.” The
two golf legends went head-to-head over the final two days and finished
11 strokes ahead of the rest of the field. The most recent Open drama at
Turnberry came in 1994 when Nick Price rallied with an eagle putt on the
17th hole to edge Jesper Parnevik by one stroke.
91ST PGA CHAMPIONSHIP The PGA Championship returns
to Hazeltine National Golf Club, where Rich Beem outlasted Tiger Woods
in 2002 for his only major title. Tucked away in the agricultural community
of Chaska, Minn., Hazeltine has been anything but a quiet hamlet when it comes
to major championship golf. In 1970, England's Tony Jacklin stunned the golf
world by winning the U.S. Open, the first from his homeland in 50 years to
accomplish the feat. In 1991, the flamboyant Payne Stewart held on in an
18-hole playoff to defeat Scott Simpson for an Open crown. Hazeltine
National also crowned the 1966 and 1977 U.S. Women's Open champions
in Sandra Spuzich and Hollis Stacy, respectively. And, Billy Casper left his
mark in 1983, winning the U.S. Senior Open.
Hazeltine National Golf Club
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PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF
2009 MAJOR CHAMPIONS POINTS LIST
OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2009
RANK
PLAYER
MASTERS
U.S. OPEN
OPEN Championship
Angel Cabrera
June 21
July 19
Place
Points
August 16
Place
Points
Total
Points
Place
Phil Mickelson
100
5th
100
2nd
Tiger Woods
82.5
T6th
82.5
3rd
Jim Furyk
66.33
T10th
66.33
T4th
Geoff Ogilvy
60.5
T15th
60.5
T4th
Todd Hamilton
60.5
T15th
60.5
T6th
Trevor Immelman
51.5
T20th
51.5
T6th
Sandy Lyle
51.5
T20th
51.5
T8th
Larry Mize
44
T30th
44
1st
Points
PGA Championship
Place
T8th
Vijay Singh
44
T30th
44
T10th
Ben Curtis
40
T35th
40
T10th
Padraig Harrington
40
T35th
40
Mike Weir
29
T46th
29
12th
PGA GRAND SLAM
OF GOLF MAJOR
CHAMPIONS POINTS
SCORING SYSTEM
In the event of an injury
or a dual winner in a Major
Championship, The PGA
of America has developed
a formula to determine the
PGA Grand Slam of Golf
alternate. This equation,
revised in 2009, incorporates
active past major winners
and how they compete in this
year's Major Championships.
The points system awards
150 points for a 2nd place
finish in a major event, 125
for 3rd, 110 for 4th, 100 for
5th, 90 for 6th, 85 for 7th all
the way through 70th place,
which receives 6 points.
FINISH
POINTS
FINISH
POINTS
FINISH
POINTS
2nd
150
25th
51
48th
28
3rd
125
26th
50
49th
27
4th
110
27th
49
50th
26
5th
100
28th
48
51st
25
6th
90
29th
47
52nd
24
7th
85
30th
46
53rd
23
8th
80
31st
45
54th
22
9th
75
32nd
44
55th
21
10th
70
33rd
43
56th
20
11th
65
34th
42
57th
19
12th
64
35th
41
58th
18
13th
63
36th
40
59th
17
14th
62
37th
39
60th
16
15th
61
38th
38
61st
15
16th
60
39th
37
62nd
14
17th
59
40th
36
63rd
13
18th
58
41st
35
64th
12
19th
57
42nd
34
65th
11
20th
56
43rd
33
66th
10
21st
55
44th
32
67th
9
22nd
54
45th
31
68th
8
23rd
53
46th
30
69th
7
24th
52
47th
29
70th
6