Talk:PGA Championship

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Contents 1 Format 2 Qualification 3 Courses 4 Off topic but relevant

[edit] Format

I find this page incredibly difficult to read, as compared to the comparable list at the U.S. Open page. Would it be safe to say that we should not make links to these courses until there are articles to read?

I disagree, red links encourage people to start articles. I will put this into table form eventually - two separate tables for the strokeplay and matchplay eras. Osomec 29 June 2005 15:01 (UTC)

I am not quite sure what the fetish is for the little flags and icons all over Wikipedia recently, but I think that the flags on this page, combined with the round-by-round scores for several of the tournaments, have made the chart much harder to read and less attractive, since the information doesn't fit onto one line anymore, at least on my 1024x768 screen. Thoughts?

[edit] Qualification

I've added the qualification as per the official site, with references to specific years removed. It does not state that they invite the World Top 50, which I have read elsewhere that all the majors do. If they don't invite the top 50, they must use quite a few invitations for leading non-PGA Tour players. I would like to say something one way or another in the article. Does anyone know more? Osomec 7 July 2005 17:19 (UTC)

[edit] Courses

I have tried to put in as many of the "official" names for the courses used for this event as I could, but I have run into a number of difficulties. For example, the events in 1928, 1927, 1926 and 1924 were at courses that do not exist anymore, at least under the name as the article originally listed them (if my memory serves me correctly). Although just about all of the U.S. Open venues are still open, and apparently under their original names, I have found doing research for this event more challenging and would like to encourage more expert golf historians to scrutinize my efforts. I gave up working on it for a time when one of the events (I forget what year since it has been a few weeks since I fiddled with it) was played at a venue for which I could find no other information, and so I am going to cede work on this front to people with more skill than I as far as the Match Play era of the event, and will make a go of it again with the stroke play. To that end, though, I think for this article in particular (it seems to be less of an issue with the U.S. Open), we should decide if we want the name of the venue to be listed as it was at the time it was played, or the name as it is known now. I lean towards the "as it was known then" approach, although that may be difficult to verify with total accuracy (e.g., is a venue now known as Weemake Bigbucks Golf Resort once known as Weemake Bigbucks Country Club?).

Addendum: I have done a considerable amount of research trying to determine exactly where the Shawnee Inn is. Its address is listed as Shawnee-on-Delaware, but as it turns out that is not a defined place; it is the town name to list when writing to certain P.O. Boxes. Shawnee-on-Delaware does not appear to exist as a legally defined entity, and the Census Bureau does not recognize it as a CDP. Furthermore, addresses that have Shawnee-on-Delaware as a town can only be sent to a P.O. Box, not physical street addresses. In fact, as near as I can tell, there aren't any standardized street addresses to be found in that area; the only option is the P.O. Box. My research indicates that the area is within the legal limits of Springfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; although this is not the mailing address, is there support for making an exception to the general principle of using the venue's mailing address for this circumstance?

I think the main thing is to link to a place we have an article about. Apparently we have articles for all "census designated places" in the US. Osomec 07:16, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

As I noted, however, Shawnee-on-Delaware is not even a census designated place. It is the only postal destination I have ever encountered that exists as neither an incorporated municipality or CDP. Hence my consternation.

Typo! It's Smithfield Township, not Springfield. My fault.

[edit] Off topic but relevant

Is it just me, or don't you think that Sahalee should be awarded the 2013 or 2014 PGA, because it won't get the 2010 because of the Winter Olympics. --fpo 16:31, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

I believe when the PGA of America announced they were bailing on Sahalee for 2010, they said they were going to bring it back there shortly thereafter. I certainly think it is a deserving venue. AppleFan84 20:48, 15 August 2005 (UTC)