Kiawah is a must-know destination until the 2022 Professional Golfers' Association Championship, scheduled for May 20-23 at Kiawah Island Golf Resort's South Carolina, seems to be the thrilling 2022 Professional Golf Associations Championship. The latest champion is Morikawa. It'll be the second major championship of the Ocean Course; nine years earlier, Rory McIlroy claimed the 2012 Professional Golfers' Association Championship. Because of the pandemic, America's PGA announced in February 2022 that ten thousand fans would be admitted in the ground for the 2022 Professional Golfers' Association Championship.
Things To Know About Kiawah Island
Here are some essential things to know about Kawah before the start of the upcoming PGA Championship.
- Kiawah Island was called Cassic or Chieftain for the Kiawah Indians.
- Kiawah Island is a 15,14-square-mile island with the rest of the ocean. Kiawah Island is 13 miles above sea level.
- Cougar Point opened in 1976. Turtle Point and Osprey Point, two of seven golf courses opened in 1981. Cougar Point • Turtle Point • Oak Point
- Ten holes are hugging the Atlantic Ocean and eight parallel holes, the Northern Hemisphere's most seaside holes. Alice Dye, Pete Dye's mother, suggested raising the course to offer players unhindered views of Kiawah's fantastic coastline from every hole.
- The Ocean Course is a par 72 course measuring 7,849 yards (7,177 meters) from championship tees and has a slope ranking of 155 and a U.S. Golf Association rating of 79.1.
- Ocean Course teeing costs about $383, except caddy service fees (usually $100). Caddies aren't needed. Golfers hire pull trolleys, nobody.
- The 1991 Ryder Cup—not long after the victorious Middle East Desert Storm battle—was Kiawah Island's first global rivalry taste. Pro-Americanism was high, with USA Cap Dave Stockton establishing the trend by standing in a photographic armed force series, prompting many American players on the first day to wear battle-fatigue-inspired golf caps.
- WCG moved to Kiawah in 2003. Twenty-four nations, including Harrington's Ireland group and McGinley's reigning Ocean Course domination six years ago, were represented. But Rory Sabbatini's South African side and Trevor Immelman's squad won four shots to share $1.4 million first prize. England's runners-up, Paul Casey and Rose. No one-size-fits-all.
- The 68th Senior Professional Golfers' Association Championship took place in Kiawah in 2007, and Zimbabwean Denis Watson claimed two shots over Argentina's Eduardo Romeo, rendering it Zimbabwe's first and seventh.
- Rory McIlroy won the 2012 Professional Golfers' Association Championship, now known as 'Glory for Rory,' a bogey-free 66 over England's runner-up David Lynn. The victory margin was the highest in Professional Golfers' Association Championship history, outperforming Jack Nicklaus' seven-time conquest for his fifth PGA and 17th central crown in 1980. At age 23 and 3, McIlroy became the sixth-youngest two-major winner, including eight strokes.
- Forty-four. David Lynn's second-place performance earned him a PGA Tour card in 2013. It used it to come runner-up in that year's Wells Fargo Championship; however, at the end of 2014, the two-time European Tour winner suddenly retired from golf after participating in 408 European Tournaments. Over his prize money, the 47-year-old has amassed so much cash that he is now CEO of Lynn Homes, which has many 'affordable' homes in England's rural Lincolnshire. Wentworth, Belfry, Turnberry, Sunningdale, and Muirfield are all well-known U.K. golf courses.
Historical Back Ground
After birding the first two holes on Day 3 of the 2012 Professional Golfers' Association Championship, Rory McIlroy's tee shot on the drivable, par-4 third hole landed 8 feet off the ground in a tree limb in the fairway center. McIlroy, his caddie, and authorities searched for the ball in the tall grass high and low, but nowhere. If his ball ended in a vacuum, the press would decide. Once told, McIlroy watched the forest ball. McIlroy then took an unplayable fib, but a neat pitch shot rescued him. He grinned at the ball, heading off the green. The tree avoided being over-struck by golfers, fighting strong winds and floods, but it was a fungus that killed it in 2015. In 2019, the course replaced "Rory's wood" with new oak, retaining the hole's approach and aesthetic appeal. Golfers will pass the oak for the next century and beyond, marveling at the contrast between its nude shape and idyllic seaside outfit.
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy wore two jerseys last day of the 2012 Professional Golfers' Association Championship. Officials declared a third-day stop, McIlroy playing nine holes. McIlroy wore a white shirt over the last nine holes. He went back to a red game jersey. Tiger Woods, who was 11th with McIlroy, carried his regular all-day red hat. McIlroy had to change his winner to a red top: "If I played Tiger, I couldn't wear a red shirt, so I didn't. You're acquainted with him (smiling). Oakley (then McIlroy's backer) gave me the draught at week start. I wouldn't wear tiger red today (fourth round). I saw Luke Donald in 2006. I wasn't playing when I called. He'd have to do that now; no doubt he makes so much (laughing)." McIlroy has a final-round display, winning the 2012 D.P. World Tour Championship and 2019 RBC Canadian Open.
