PGA Grand Slam of Golf
The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is the world's most exclusive golf tournament. It is an annual off-season golf tournament contested by the year's winners of golf's four Grand Slam events, also known as the major championships of regular men's golf: The Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open), and the PGA Championship. It is one of several invitational events for leading male golfers which are held each year in November and December after the PGA Tour and the European Tour seasons have concluded. The competition is organised by the PGA of America and the prize money does not count towards the PGA Tour money list.
The tournament has been staged since 1979 with a couple of short breaks. It is a 2 day, 36-hole stroke-play competition. If a player wins more than one major in a calendar year, the PGA of America will fill the four-man field by inviting the player(s) with the best overall finishes in that year's majors. Initially the PGA Grand Slam of Golf was played at a different golf course each year, but since 1994, the Poipu Bay Golf Course in Koloa, Hawaii on the island of Kauai has been the tournament's permanent home. The prize fund is $1 million, of which $400,000 goes to the winner. This is likely to be the lowest first prize some of the competitors have played for all year, but on the other hand there is a guaranteed $150,000 for coming fourth and last.
[edit] Winners
- 2005 Tiger Woods - United States
- 2004 Phil Mickelson - United States
- 2003 Jim Furyk - United States
- 2002 Tiger Woods - United States
- 2001 Tiger Woods - United States
- 2000 Tiger Woods - United States
- 1999 Tiger Woods - United States
- 1998 Tiger Woods - United States
- 1997 Ernie Els - South Africa
- 1996 Tom Lehman - United States
- 1995 Ben Crenshaw - United States
- 1994 Greg Norman - Australia
- 1993 Greg Norman - Australia
- 1992 Nick Price - Zimbabwe
- 1991 Ian Woosnam - Wales
- 1990 Andy North - United States
- 1989 Curtis Strange - United States
- 1988 Larry Nelson - United States
- 1987 No tournament
- 1986 Greg Norman - Australia
- 1985 No tournament
- 1984 No tournament
- 1983 No tournament
- 1982 Bill Rogers - United States
- 1981 Lee Trevino - United States
- 1980 Lanny Wadkins - United States
- 1979 Gary Player - South Africa
[edit] Multiple winners
Only two men have won the event more than once up to and including 2005.
- Tiger Woods — 6 consecutive wins: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2005 (did not play 2004)
- Greg Norman — 3 wins: 1986, 1993 and 1994
