Talk:2008 PGA Championship

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:

Lee Westwood (18), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (20), Robert Karlsson (22), Graeme McDowell (29), Martin Kaymer (33), Søren Hansen (41), Paul Casey (42), Richard Green (45), Oliver Wilson (47), Niclas Fasth (49), Ross Fisher (52), Shingo Katayama (53), Nick O'Hern (54), Toru Taniguchi (62), Nick Dougherty (65), Jeev Milkha Singh (66), Brendan Jones (68), Mark Brown (70), James Kingston (71), Prayad Marksaeng (73), Hennie Otto (75), Ben Curtis (77), Charles Howell III (79), Colin Montgomerie (83), Søren Kjeldsen (84), Peter Hanson (86), Ben Crane (87), Jyoti Randhawa (88), Steve Webster (91), Charl Schwartzel (92), Bubba Watson (94), Jonathan Byrd (96), Alastair Forsyth (97), Jason Bohn (98), Peter Hedblom (99)
 * Top 100 in OWGR as of July 27, 2008

Missing only Richard Sterne (63)

Louis Oosthuizen (100)
 * Top 100 in OWGR as of July 20, 2008

Scott Strange (99)
 * Top 100 in OWGR as of July 13, 2008

Greg Norman - T3 - British Open (only Top 5 finisher not already eligible/invited through OWGR)
 * Top finishers in current year's majors

Pablo Larrazábal (14th)
 * Top 15 on European Tour Order of Merit as of July 27, 2008

Tom Lehman (2006 Ryder Cup captain), Corey Pavin (2006 Ryder Cup asstistant captain), Fred Couples (2008 Presidents Cup)
 * Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup notables

Darren Clarke – won BMW Asian Open, Hiroyuki Fujita – won Pine Valley Beijing Open
 * Others – notable 2008 achievements

Tewapack (talk) 22:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)