2022 PGA Championship
The 2022 PGA Championship was a professional golf tournament, held May 19–22 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was the 104th PGA Championship. This was the fifth PGA Championship at Southern Hills and its eighth major championship. The event was originally scheduled to be played at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, but was moved to Southern Hills following the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Defending champion Phil Mickelson withdrew from the tournament amid controversy over his remarks about LIV Golf. It was the first time he had missed the PGA Championship since 1992, and the first time the defending champion did not play since 2008, when Tiger Woods was sidelined after knee surgery. Justin Thomas defeated Will Zalatoris in a three-hole aggregate playoff to win his second PGA Championship (2017). Thomas came from seven shots behind at the start of the final round to win, tying the largest comeback in PGA Championship history. Mito Pereira, the 54-hole leader in his first PGA Championship appearance, led by one shot playing the 72nd hole before hitting his drive into a water hazard and making a double-bogey to finish a shot out of the playoff. This was the first major championship to go to a playoff since the 2017 Masters, a span of 19 consecutive majors, the longest in history. This year's purse was increased 25% to $15 million, with a winner's share of $2.7 million. Venue Course layout Yardage by round Southern Hills had previously hosted the PGA Championship in 1970, 1982, 1994, and 2007; it also hosted the U.S. Open in 1958, 1977, and 2001. Field The field for the PGA Championship is sometimes regarded as the strongest in professional golf, routinely having the highest "strength of field rating" of the year according to the Official World Golf Ranking. A number of qualification criteria are used to determine the field, which includes past PGA champions, recent major winners, top finishers in the 2021 PGA Championship, Ryder Cup players, tournament and leading money winners on the PGA Tour, and twenty PGA club or teaching professionals. The PGA of America also issue invitations to players outside of these criteria, which is generally seen to include the top-100 in the world rankings. Criteria This list details the qualification criteria for the 2022 PGA Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified is indicated in parentheses. 1. All past winners of the PGA Championship (list excludes those not expected to play) Rich Beem Keegan Bradley (10) John Daly Jason Day Jason Dufner Pádraig Harrington (8) Martin Kaymer Brooks Koepka (3,8,10,11,12) Rory McIlroy (5,10,11,12) Shaun Micheel Collin Morikawa (4,8,10,11,12) Justin Thomas (5,10,11,12) Tiger Woods (2) Yang Yong-eun Davis Love III, Phil Mickelson (8,10), Vijay Singh, and Jimmy Walker did not play. 2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2018–2022) Dustin Johnson (10,11) Hideki Matsuyama (10,12) Patrick Reed (10) Scottie Scheffler (8,10,11,12) 3. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2017–2021) Jon Rahm (8,10,11,12)