Talk:2007 PGA Championship

Past Champions In Field
Would it make more since to list most recent to most distant? On the assumption that a) people who one more recently are more likely to win again; b) that usually a main focus of a sporting event is whether the defending champion will win. (Happyax 13:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC))
 * I honestly don't see how this section is relevant in the first place for an encyclopedia article on the current event. -- Zim Zala Bim talk  13:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Invitations
The PGA of America does not announce how it determines who it invites (category 11) but the Official World Golf Rankings are obviously important. Possible categories:

Paul Casey (18), Niclas Fasth (20), Nick O'Hern (24), Andrés Romero (29), Richard Green (30), Richard Sterne (33), José María Olazábal (35), Colin Montgomerie (36), Stephen Ames (39), Robert Karlsson (40), Arron Oberholser (43), Anders Hansen (44), Lee Westwood (48), Shingo Katayama (50), Charl Schwartzel (51), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (52), David Howell (54), Bradley Dredge (55), Raphaël Jacquelin (59), Jeev Milkha Singh (63), Toru Taniguchi (65), John Senden (68), Bernhard Langer (72), Johan Edfors (76), Pat Perez (77), Yang Yong-eun (79), Peter Hanson (81), Thomas Bjørn (86), Simon Dyson (89), Jyoti Randhawa (90), Rocco Mediate (91), Liang Wen-Chong (93), Markus Brier (94), Nathan Green (97), Kenny Perry (98), Søren Hansen (99), Anthony Wall (100)
 * Top 100 in OWGR as of July 29, 2007

Nick Dougherty (100)
 * Top 100 in OWGR as of July 22, 2007

Camilo Villegas (99), Thongchai Jaidee (100)
 * Top 100 in OWGR as of July 15, 2007

Grégory Havret, Graeme Storm (only players in top 20 not otherwise eligible)
 * Top 20 on European Tour Order of Merit as of July 29, 2007

Billy Mayfair, 1995 The Tour Championship
 * Previous winners at host course

Darren Clarke, Paul McGinley (death of Clarke's wife)
 * Players eligible in 2006 but who didn’t play

Justin Leonard, Corey Pavin
 * Unknown

Hole Averages on Thursday
I don't know what the exact average was, however, the 13th was definitely the easiest hole on Thursday.

http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2007/scoring/course_stats.html

(Ryan86 17:20, 10 August 2007 (UTC))

Tiger's Injury
Dave Sittler's column in the 6/19/08 Tulsa World points out that although the public didn't know it at the time, Tiger was actually pretty badly injured (torn ACL) when he won the 2007 PGA. As Sittler puts it, "So Woods was basically playing on one leg when he won his 13th and 14th majors." "Tiger's remarkable run began at Southern Hills." I don't know if it's important enough to add this to the 2007 PGA article or not, but it certainly puts Tiger's win--on a course he'd never handled particularly well before--in an interesting new light, so maybe it is. Arxiloxos (talk) 03:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)