2014 PGA Championship


The 2014 PGA Championship was the 96th PGA Championship, played August 7–10 at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. This was the third PGA Championship at Valhalla, which previously hosted in 1996 and 2000.
Rory McIlroy won his second PGA Championship and fourth career major golf championships|major] title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson.

Venue

Previous course lengths for major championships
The second hole was previously played as a par 5.

Field

The following qualification criteria were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.
1. All former PGA Champions
2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
3. Last five Masters Champions
4. Last five British Open Champions
5. Current Senior PGA Champion
6. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2013 PGA Championship
7. 20 low scorers in the 2014 PGA Professional National Championship
8. Top 70 leaders in official money standings from the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational to the 2014 RBC Canadian Open
9. Members of the United States and European 2012 Ryder Cup teams
10. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2013 PGA Championship
11. Vacancies are filled by the first available player from the list of alternates.
12. The PGA of America reserves the right to invite additional players not included in the categories listed above
Alternates
  1. Jerry Kelly – replaced Dustin Johnson
  2. Pat Perez – took spot reserved for WGC-Bridgestone Invitational winner
  3. Shawn Stefani – replaced David Toms
  4. John Huh – replaced Matt Kuchar

    Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 7, 2014
Lee Westwood recorded nine birdies, including his last four holes, to offset a double-bogey for a round of 65 and join Kevin Chappell and Ryan Palmer in a tie for first. Rory McIlroy also rebounded from a double-bogey with four straight birdies on the back nine and was one shot behind. Defending champion Jason Dufner entered the championship with a neck injury and withdrew after ten holes at +8.
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T1

Second round

Friday, August 8, 2014
Rory McIlroy, who had regained the List of [World Number One male golfers|world number one] spot the previous Monday, held the 36-hole lead. The low round went to Jason Day with a 65.
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Third round

Saturday, August 9, 2014
Rory McIlroy birdied three of his last four holes for a round of 67. Bernd Wiesberger recorded birdies on his last three holes to record the lowest score of the round with a 65 and move into second place, one shot behind. A tight leaderboard saw five players tied for the lead at 10-under at one point on the back-nine. The scoring average for the round was 69.6, the lowest in PGA Championship history.
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Final round

Sunday, August 10, 2014
Finishing the round in almost complete darkness, Rory McIlroy made par on the 18th to win his fourth career and second consecutive major championship. Beginning the round with a one-shot advantage, McIlroy fell from the lead with two bogeys on his first six holes. Rickie Fowler recorded birdies on four out of five holes on the front-nine, Phil Mickelson made four birdies on his first nine while Henrik Stenson made five birdies on the front to each pass McIlroy. Down by as much as three shots, McIlroy jumped back into contention with an eagle at the 10th to get within one shot. Fowler and Stenson both made bogey on the 14th, while Mickelson bogeyed the 16th. McIlroy, meanwhile, birdied the 13th and 17th to get to 16-under-par. Needing eagle on 18 to tie McIlroy, Mickelson's chip from off the green narrowly missed while Fowler missed on a lengthy putt. McIlroy found a greenside bunker at the last then two-putted for par and a one-shot win over Mickelson. With this win McIlroy became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2008 to win three straight starts on the PGA Tour, and the first since Pádraig Harrington to win consecutive majors. Harrington won the same two in 2008, the Open Championship and PGA Championship.

Final leaderboard

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Scorecard

Final round
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