{"id":10523,"date":"2024-05-13T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T07:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/?post_type=article&p=10523"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:29:37","slug":"2024-pga-championship-at-valhalla-golf-club-preview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/article\/2024-pga-championship-at-valhalla-golf-club-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club – Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 106th edition of the PGA Championship, the second major of the 2024 calendar, will be held at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky from May 16-19. Designed by all-time major champion Jack Nicklaus, Valhalla is ranked as the top course in Kentucky and is listed among \u201cAmerica\u2019s 100 Greatest Courses\u201d by Golf Digest. Valhalla has hosted three previous PGA Championships, two Senior PGA Championships, and the 2008 Ryder Cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located just east of Louisville, Valhalla is a beautiful 486-acre property that features rolling terrain, narrow tree-lined fairways surrounded by penal rough, and tricky undulating greens. It’s a stern but fair test of golf that will challenge players in every area. While there are some definite scoring opportunities, poor shots will be punished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resembling the length of some of the most recent PGA Championship courses in Kiawah Island, Southern Hills, and Oak Hill, it’s a brute of a par-71 layout that measures 7,609 yards from the tips. It also boasts an impressive balance of scenic, risk\/reward, and difficult holes. Gently meandering throughout the course is Floyd’s Fork, a stream that comes into play and forces strategic decisions on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last PGA Championship at Valhalla was in 2014 when Rory McIlroy held off Phil Mickelson by one stroke and won his second Wanamaker Trophy and fourth major overall. Mcllroy hasn’t won a major championship since. This was also the scene where Tiger Woods held off Boby May in a riveting three-hole playoff to claim the 2000 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Brooks Koepka defeated both Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler by two strokes at Oak Hill for his third career PGA title while also becoming the first LIV golfer to win a major. At Valhalla, he is attempting to become the fourth golfer in history to win at least four PGA Championship titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is seemingly said for every major, but the PGA Championship does have the strongest field, perhaps of all time. 99 of the top 100 players in the world rankings are in attendance at Valhalla. The 156-player field also features 16 players from the rival LIV Golf league including major championship stalwarts Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, and the defending PGA winner, Brooks Koepka. Others from LIV were granted exemptions including Talor Gooch, Joaquin Niemann, and Patrick Reed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main storyline is that three of the game’s biggest heavyweights, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Brooks Koepka are each coming off victories in their most recent starts heading into this week. Scheffler is gunning for his second consecutive major after winning another Green Jacket last month and enters as the overwhelming favorite having had a couple of weeks away from the game after winning the RBC Heritage and coming off the birth of his first child. Not only did McIlroy win his second straight event at Quail Hollow last week, but he also crushed everyone, gaining 19.9 strokes on the field. And Koepka, who is perhaps the biggest game hunter of them all with five combined PGA\/U.S. Open titles since 2017 won the most recent LIV event in Singapore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are plenty of other big names in the second-tier of favorites that are ready to contend including Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Aberg, and Max Homa. Other past PGA champions in the field include Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Jason Day, Phil Mickelson, Keegan Bradley, and Tiger Woods. Woods is a four-time winner of this event and is coming off his 24th consecutive made-cut at the Masters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valhalla Golf Club – History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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It all started on a rainy Saturday afternoon in 1977. Sitting in one of his business offices with his son, Louisville businessman Dwight Gahm was lamenting his inability to play at his local country club without having to scramble for a tee time. And then it dawned on him. He owned 486 acres of property in the eastern part of Jefferson County. Louisville also lacked a premier golf course and the land would be perfect for one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the land had been used as a quarter-horse farm with another portion housing a Boy Scout camp. Not long after that rainy day, Gahm contacted Jack Nicklaus and got the ball rolling by convincing him to design what would eventually become Valhalla Golf Club. Nicklaus described the site in 1983 as a \u201cgolf designer\u2019s dream because there is a variety of terrain, vegetation, and water to work with. Everything necessary for an excellent golf course is here: room for wide, tree-lined fairways and spectacular golf holes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before it became a golf course, the property was difficult to develop because half of the site was a floodplain with high-tension electric poles everywhere. Nicklaus, however, drew on his extensive training and prior experience to produce a unique design that includes a par 5 with an alternate fairway, a par 4 with an island green, and a finishing hole with a horseshoe-shaped green. In the spring of 1984, after considering 40 potential course routings, construction began and the final product opened for play in June 1986. As he is known to do, Nicklaus has returned periodically to update and renovate the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1992, Valhalla was selected to host the 1996 edition of the PGA Championship. The following year, the PGA of America purchased a 25% interest in the club. After the championship in 1996 (won by Mark Brooks), the PGA of America raised its stake to 50% and announced that the event would return to Valhalla in 2000. At its conclusion, the PGA of America exercised an option to purchase the remaining interest in the club. Later that year, it announced that the Ryder Cup would be held at Valhalla in 2008. Team USA won 16.5 \u2013 11.5 to end the streak of three successive victories for Europe. This was the USA’s largest margin of victory since 1981 and the first time since 1979 that the Americans had held the lead after every session of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PGA Championship returned in 2014 with Rory McIlroy’s triumphant victory. And in November 2017, the PGA of America announced that the PGA Championship would return to Valhalla in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In preparation for the tournament this year, Valhalla\u2019s new ownership group has made numerous updates to the course. Included in those are the renovation of the clubhouse, adding a new agronomy center, a waterfall on the 13th hole, and new tee boxes on the first, 12th, 14th, and 18th holes. The entire course has also been re-sodded from Bentgrass to Zoysia, a warmer-season turf. This should allow for easier maintenance of the course during the summer. The course will play about 100 yards longer than it did in 2014. The first hole is 50 yards longer, and No. 14 can be played as a 250-yard par three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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