PGA Championship coming to Tulsa in 2022 tournament

OKLAHOMA CITY — The PGA Championship is coming to Southern Hills one year from now, the Oklahoma course that gets its eighth major championship earlier than expected after the PGA of America cut ties with former President Donald Trump.

The 2022 PGA Championship initially was to be held at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey. The PGA casted a ballot to end that agreement, endorsed in 2014, after the Trump-fueled riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress was certifying the election victory of President Joe Biden.

Prior to this, Southern Hills was not booked to have the PGA Championship until 2030.

The club was reported Monday as the 2022 host, which implies it will return to-back enormous occasions beginning with the Senior PGA Championship this May. That was one reason it was interesting to climb Southern Hills in the PGA Championship turn. The PGA of America as of now has staff nearby in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alongside a tasks outline that will not require a lot of work.

Kerry Haigh, the central titles official for the PGA of America, said the agreement with Southern Hills for 2022 replaces the one for 2030. He said Southern Hills would stay in the blend to likewise have in 2030. It isn’t strange for the PGA Championship to get back to a course in eight years or less.

“We have a Senior PGA Championship there this year. We additionally have a staff nearby for Southern Hills, who currently will actually want to remain on through for the PGA Championship,” Haigh said. “These are significant components when we’re under 16 months from playing. What’s more, we think Southern Hills is a magnificent green. It generally has been.”

Southern Hills recently facilitated the PGA Championship in 1970, 1982, 1994 and most as of late in 2007, when Tiger Woods won his thirteenth major — and fourth PGA title — with a two-shot triumph over Woody Austin. Woods completed at 8-under 272, one of just five players who completed under standard.

The course as of late went through a reclamation project drove by Gil Hanse, with greens and bunkering a major focal point of his work on the first Perry Maxwell plan. The club opened in 1935.

The insurgence at the U.S. Legislative hall, which drove the House to impugn Trump briefly time, incited the PGA of America load up to audit its agreement and it eventually casted a ballot to leave Trump National.

It was the second time since Trump entered legislative issues that the PGA of America left one of his courses. They commonly consented to drop the PGA Grand Slam of Golf at Trump National LA in 2015 after Trump reported his bid.

Since the choice to leave Trump National in 2022, Haigh said the PGA got solicitations from around 30 golf clubs needing to have the PGA Championship one year from now.

The temperature was in the low 100s Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) during the last PGA Championship at Southern Hills when it was held in August. That will presently don’t be an issue now that the exceptionally old major has moved to May.

Southern Hills recently facilitated U.S. Opens in 1958, 1977 and in 2001.

The PGA Championship this year will be at Kiawah Island in South Carolina, which last facilitated the major in 2012 when Rory McIlroy won by eight shots. After Southern Hills, it goes to Oak Hill in Rochester, New York.