The PGA Championship: Day 4
August 14 2011
10:00 pm Bradley latest example of depth on TOUR
By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Thirteen majors, thirteen different winners. Keegan Bradley was the latest to join that list and in it represents parity and increasing depth on the PGA TOUR.
For Bradley, his victory at the PGA Championship was remarkable on several levels, not the least of which was the fact that just 2 1/2 years ago Bradley was grinding out a career on the Hooters Tour after a collegiate career at St. Johns University.
Not only is Bradley the 13th straight different major winner, he’s one of six rookies to win on the TOUR this season (his first win came earlier in the year) and the 13th player in his 20s to do so.
“I just know from the guys that I graduated with on the Nationwide Tour, like Chris Kirk and Jamie Lovemark, who’s not even playing, all of these guys are so good,” Bradley said. “Any one of them could win every week.”
Bradley of course is the one who did win. Sunday’s victory was his second of the year and all but locks up Rookie of the Year honors and puts him squarely in the conversation for the Player of the Year as well.
“The top players are not dominating like they were,” Bradley continued. “It gives an opportunity for a player like me to win this thing, and I just think it’s as deep as it’s ever been and I think it’s only getting deeper.”
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Give Bradley credit for hanging in after taking a tripple to go on and win the PGA. Good kid…. Where were the big guys thay always make their charge. No where to be found. Nobody fears the big guns anymore. Tiger gone and Phil in major slump!
Will see how Keegan does in the next couple of weeks. To early to crown him the next trar yet.
Tom Watson could smoke all of these young stars. and he’s over 60 years old.
SCOTT YOUR BACK, i was so worried about you .isn’t it great we have all these highly skilled young superstars to watch now your buddy has gone,the only trouble is there’s too many of them . i cant believe it takes maybe 8-10 OF THEM to replace one broken down washed up circus animal . [ IT'S AMAZING].
Fantastic win for Keegan. Sad for Jason but that is golf. A bright future for golf given the ups and downs of all leading players on Sunday. Thank God we didn’t have to watch Tiger display all his animal emotions
Very nice win Keegan ! I still think it was the less interesting major of the las t two years but what a performance ! Congrats
Will Keegan have a note in the recod book about his belly putter?
great finish to a great week!
WHAT?????? Frenchie, I am in New Zealand. Now I don’t know what kinda transmission you get in your neck of the woods, but from where I was watching it was riveting stuff. I would opine that the 2010 Open was a yawn (name me the winner…) and if Rory hadn’t turned up at the US Open we would have all fallen asleep. What does it take for you guys to fess up and admit that this was as good a dog fight as you will ever witness (unless another Frenchie like Jean van de Velde comes on back for another crack!).
By the way, it was Louis Oostehezin that was ’10 Open winner – I know you forgot!
Re Tiger, so now he is going to practice for the next three months? How about taking the opportunity to spend some time with the kids? The true greatness of Jack Nicklaus was not just that he won 18 Majors, it was that he did so over a long and glorious career in golf while successfully raising a large family with his loving wife. This basic fact of life seems to be totally lost on TW and the horde of golf media types that continually genuflect in his presence when he deems to grant them an audience. Congrats to Keegan.
13 different winners in the past 13 majors, and 10 of them winning for the first time are great sign of the tour’s depth. However, I believe majors should have 5 rounds instead of 4, making it a much greater challenge while providing a greater opportunity for the cream to rise to the top. As much as fans enjoy upsets, and pulling for the underdog, the game would benefit if there was a clear distinction between majors and any other tournaments.
As Golf’s marquee events, and given the fact that the reputations of greatest players in golf history are largely based on the number of major championship victories they accumulate, it should be much more difficult to win one.
Nothing against players like Immelman, Yang, Oosthuizen, Clarke, …etc. They’re all great players, and were the best during that particular week. However, given their performance prior and after their major victories, I question their place in the history books. Will Bradley join this club? Only history will tell us.
wow, avid fan of golf, unlike a casual watcher, I thought this was a amazing tournie, given there inexperience and all that they had going on for it. Just look at what had to be done on those last 4 holes.
Alright Cman.. Explain me, as if I was a 5 year old kid, what’s the difference between yesterday’s great finish, and last year’s Chevron Challenge exciting finish?
I assume yesterday’s was much more important given that it is a major championship, and not an invitational, right?? Now, as for the caliber of the involved player’s, I think anyone who knows a thing or two about golf would agree that McDowell and Tiger are much more accomplished than Bradley and Dufner are.
What I am trying to say is that the game would benefit from a different format during the majors, just like it happens in tennis. It would create much more attention, and give the best players the better chance to win.
“i cant believe it takes maybe 8-10 OF THEM to replace one broken down washed up circus animal”…..Seriously? Sorry to misinform you but the golf channel or any other sports/news outlet can’t blow enough glitter onto this surge of young guns winning to replace the excitement Tiger brings when healthy and playing his A-game. Brandel nearly having a conniption trying to make this into something more than it was was hilarious. Congrats to Keegan, well played and an incredible talent but don’t expect this guy to carry the tour unless you like plain vanilla ice cream wit a silver spoon.
Isn’t the Ryder Cup statistics for the last 15 years an indication of the depth of the US Tour?!…
A super win for Keegan. but he forgot his manners on the final play-off hole. Once Keegan’s putt dropped for the win, he should have immediately congratulated his fellow’s competitor; instead of dancing around the green with his relatives. I’m sure just an oversight given moment.
Way to go, Keegan! Great win holding up under pressure. Hopefully, this will propel him to greater heights! BTW, I know I speak for millions when I say that I’m soooooooooooooo grateful that we weren’t subjected to any more of The Great Fornicator (a.k.a. Tiger Woods) this weekend, although CBS tried their best to interject him as much as they could. Stay away, Woods. Golf is much, much better off without your filthy mouthed antics.
I found the PGA Tournament facinating, interesting, and well worth watching. Congratulations to Keegan. What a fantastic game. Concerning Tiger Woods: he is no longer the “great intimidator” but he should be able to win two or three tournaments in his remaining life time and perhaps one or two of them will be a major…and then, perhaps he will never win another major tournament. There are so many good young players these days. Tiger slipped to 33rd in the world golf rankings after the PGA and he will slip even lower after September, 2011. The PGA is much better off without Tiger Woods and his awful antics on and off the golf course.
Say what you want about tiger woods but to say that the PGA is better off without him is just ignorant. At the end of the day the PGA is a buisness, if it doesnt produce a profit it fails and no more professional golf for us to watch. Now, plain and simple watching these relativly random players win majors everytime does not produce money and unlike basketball or football there are no lock outs, theres simply the PGA shutting down. There is a reason the media hypes up tiger in these tournaments its because he is what produces money, because the important part is that you have to have fans of the golfers and its hard to be a fan for golfers who dont at least contend in tournament after tournment. Plus, we dont watch golfers because of there personal lives we watch them because they are great at a game we love, so stop caring about an athletes personal life, its none of our buisness and tiger fans are tiger fans because when he is on his game nobody has ever done it better.
DON’T THINK HE’S GONE/; just yet guys i hear NIKE ARE ALLREADY WORKING on a none HOOK-SLICE driver to correct his problems , then he just goes out and buy’s a broomstick [IF THERES ANY LEFT ] and he’s updated and ready to go. BEWARE THE WOUNDED TIGER.
My main question here is why is the WGC at Firestone on the week before a major?
The players I would have expected for the PGA turned up and played there and most of them were nowhere this week.
They’ve got to change that, unnecessary for such a big one to be the week before a major, it must drain the players energy a bit.
HH has got to know that one of the first moves of the downswing is to start mnvoig the torso so that the shoulders move directly from their flat plane at the top, to a steeper one (down-the-line view) nearer the ball. Getting the hitting shoulder’ nearer the ball keeps the right arm from fully extending too soon, resulting in the clubhead flipping past the wrists prior to impact.