Tournament information | |
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Dates | August 17–20, 2006 |
Location | Medinah, Illinois |
Course(s) | Medinah Country Club No. 3 Course |
Organized by | PGA of America |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,561 yards (6,914 m) |
Field | 156 players, 70 after cut[1] |
Cut | 144 (E) |
Prize fund | $6,800,000 |
Winner's share | $1,224,000 |
Champion | |
Tiger Woods | |
270 (−18) | |
The 2006 PGA Championship was the 88th PGA Championship, played August 17–20 at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago.[2] Tiger Woods won his third PGA Championship and twelfth major title, five shots ahead of runner-up Shaun Micheel, the 2003 champion. It was consecutive major wins for Woods, after taking The Open Championship at Hoylake four weeks earlier.
The No. 3 Course was the longest to date in major championship history. Medinah previously hosted the tournament in 1999, when Woods captured his first PGA Championship. The purse was $6.8 million with a winner's share of $1.224 million.
This was the last appearance for two-time winner Nick Price.