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PGA Championchip
Masters
British Open
US Open
Ryder Cup
PGA Championchip
The PGA Championship (PGA Championship, in
English) is an annual golf tournament organized by the American PGA Tour as
part of the PGA. This championship is one of the so-called majors in golf, and
is the last of the majors that are played each year, always in the month of
August (usually the fourth weekend after the British Open golf, although the
editions of 2007 and 2008 have been advanced one week because of scheduling
conflicts). The budget for awards at the 2006 amounted to $ 6.8 million (5.3
million, approximately).
As in other majors, winning the tournament
gives the golfer who gets certain privileges: the champion of the PGA is
automatically invited to play the other three majors (the Masters, the U.S.
Open and British Open golf) for the next five years and shall be free to play
the qualifying stage for PGA for life. It also becomes a member of the PGA
Tour over the next five years and get an automatic invitation to play the
tournament The Players' over the next five years.
Throughout its history, the PGA has been held
in various camps throughout the United States.
The Masters
The Masters is one of the four most important tournaments (also called majors) in
the men's professional golf and the first to be held every year. The final
round takes place annually the weekend following the second Sunday of April.
Unlike the other major championships, the Masters has a fixed venue, Augusta
National Golf Club, a private golf club located in Augusta, Georgia, USA. The
precursors of the tournament players were Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, who
designed the field alongside the legendary designer Alister MacKenzie tours.
Similar to other major championships, winning
the Masters gives the golfer who gets certain privileges: It is automatically
invited to play the other three majors for the next five years, and get a
lifetime invitation to play the Masters. It also becomes part of the PGA Tour
and is invited to play the tournament The Players' over the next five years. In
2006, the budget for awards was $ 7 million.
The most significant prize in the tournament,
however, is the coveted green jacket. Besides this prize, the tournament
winner receives a gold medal and his name is engraved on the trophy for the
Masters. This trophy, which represents the clubhouse, was first awarded in
1961 and remains at the club. Since 1993, a replica of the trophy is given to
the winner in recognition. For its part, the finalist receives a silver medal,
and since 1978, a silver tray.
Bristish Open
The Open Championship, also known as the
British Open and British Open golf, is the oldest of the four most important
tournaments (majors) that are played throughout the year in professional golf
circuit. The tournament is held every year in one of the prestigious golf
clubs in the UK and is managed by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St
Andrews, no matter where you play. The tournament is played on a links
provided, or golf course located in a coastal area, which is characterized as
an area dominated by sand dunes. In 2006 the prize fund was 4 million pounds
(about 5.86 million euros), the largest of the four majors.
The Open is played on the weekend of the third
Friday in July, the third best in the calendar (after the Masters Tournament
and U.S. Open and before the PGA Championship).
The first edition of the British Open was held
on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club. This first tournament was
restricted to professional golfers, and only eight of them participated,
playing 3 rounds on the course of 12 holes of the club in a single day. The
winner was Willie Park, Sr. with a score of 174, beating the favorite, Tom
Morris, Sr., by two strokes. In the next edition, the tournament was opened to
amateur players, and attended by 18 players (10 professional and 8 amateur).
Originally, the trophy was delivered to the
winner was a belt, made of red leather with a silver buckle. However, in the
first three editions was not delivered cash prize. In 1863, it established a
prize fund of £ 10 to share between the second, third and fourth ranked
professional player. In 1864, Tom Morris was the first winner of the
tournament receive a cash prize; that year were 6 £. For 2004, the prize
winner had risen to £ 720,000. The belt was given as a prize winner last time
in 1870, after Tom Morris Jr. won the tournament for the third consecutive
time and I stay on property. Thereafter, he was replaced by current trophy,
known as the Claret Jug, or solid silver jug.
The Prestwick Golf Club ran the tournament between 1860 and 1870, from that
moment, shared responsibility with two other clubs, The Royal and Ancient Golf
Club of St Andrews and The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. In 1892 the
tournament has doubled its length, from 36 to 72 holes in four rounds of 18
holes. Due to the large number of participants who drew the tournament, the
organization decició introduce the "cut" after two rounds in the 1898 edition.
It is from 1920 when the entire responsibility for organizing the tournament
rests solely with the The Royal & Ancient Golf Club. The Open has always
been dominated by professional players, giving only six victories by amateurs
(all between 1890 and 1930)..
The Open has always been dominated by
professional players, giving only six victories by amateurs (all between 1890
and 1930).
US Open
The U.S. Open Golf is an annual men's golf
tournament held in the United States and is organized by the United States
Golf Association each June (always matches the weekend of the third Sunday of
that month). This tournament is one of the four majors are held throughout the
year and appears on both the PGA Tour schedule as the European Tour. The U.S.
Open has been played in several camps throughout its history.
The first U.S. Open took place on 4 October 1895, with a nine-hole course in
Newport, Rhode Island. The tournament had a total of 36 holes and was played
in a single day. It took some ten professionals and one amateur. The winner
was 21 years young Englishman Horace Rawlins, who had come to America in
January of that year. The award he received was $ 150 total prize fund of 325,
plus a gold medal valued at another $ 50, his club also received the trophy of
the tournament was presented by the USGA.
In its early years, the tournament was
dominated by experienced British golfers, until 1911, the year he beat the
first American, John J. McDermott. From that year the American golfers began
to win the tournament regularly, and it was to become one of the four majors.
Throughout history, the title has been won
almost exclusively by players from the United States. Since 1950, only players
from four countries (excluding USA) have won the tournament, highlighting the
South Africans, who have won five times since 1965.
However, between 2004 and 2007 there have been
four consecutive victories from U.S. players, something that has not occurred
since the early twentieth century. These four victories were achieved by South
African Retief Goosen (2004), New Zealander Michael Campbell (2005),
Australian Geoff Ogilvy (2006) and Argentina's Angel "Pato" Cabrera (2007),
all players in the Southern Hemisphere. No European has won the tournament
since he succeeded Tony Jacklin in 1970.
The U.S. Open is open to any professional or
any amateur golfer who has a current handicap of 1.4. Players can obtain the
square automatically or have to play a qualifying round. Of the 156 seats that
has the tournament, about half (usually 70 seats) are awarded automatically to
players (winners of other majors, former winners of the tournament, players who
were in the top 30 in the previous season PGA Tour, etc.)..
Those players who have to struggle to qualify for the tournament must do so in
two stages. First there is a local qualifying round, played over 18 holes in a
hundred camps throughout the United States. There are also players who are
exempt from this first stage play and, therefore, pass directly to the final
qualifying phase. In this second phase, players who have passed the first round
and were found free of it, will face 36 holes on a journey that takes place at
various golf clubs in the United States and in two fields of Europe and Japan
(a field in each).
There is no age limit to compete in the
tournament, for example, in 2006 ranked the youngest player ever who
participated in the tournament: Tadd Fujikawa of Hawaii, 15.
The prize fund for the tournament was in 2006
of 6,800,000 $, where the prize for the winner of $ 1,225,000. In line with the
other majors, U.S. Open winner receives a number of privileges including its
automatic invitation to play the other three majors for five years and automatic
qualification for the U.S. Open for the next ten years. Also automatic entry
into the PGA Tour during the next five seasons and received invitation to play
the tournament The Players' for five seasons.
The 50 best players of each edition of U.S.
Open will qualify automatically for the next edition, and the top eight are
invited automatically for the Masters next season.
Ryder cup
The Ryder Cup or Ryder Cup is a biennial golf
tournament that pits teams from Europe and the United States. The Ryder Cup was
born in 1926 when American teams competing in Britain and the East Course at
the Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, UK. After more than 45 years of
U.S. dominance (Britain won the trophy only once between 1935 and 1973), the
British team was joined by players from Ireland in 1973, and later also players
from the rest of Europe (since 1979) . This inclusion of players made the
tournament is more competitive considerablamente. Currently, parties are
directed jointly by the USPGA and the PGA European Tour.
The meetings of the Ryder Cup matchplay include
several matches between players selected by both teams among the dozen players
who are part of each. Currently, the matches consist of eight foursomes
matches, eight games and twelve singles matches fourball. The winner of each
match scores a point for his team, whereas if there is a tie after 18 holes,
each of the teams are divided ½ point.
A meeting in foursomes format is a contest between two teams of two
golfers each. Players from each team alternating shots in the game over,
always with the same ball. Each hole is won by the team that completes
the course in the fewest strokes. The format of fourball match also sets
two teams of two players each, but all four participants have their own
ball throughout the journey, and each hole is won by the team whose
player emboque in the fewest strokes. A singles match is the standard
type of competition between two players, in which the player emboque in
the fewest number of strokes, points to the hole.
The games are held over three days, usually from Friday through Sunday.
The first two days are held four matches in the morning fourball mode,
and four foursomes format, the latter in the afternoon. Sunday marked
the twelve singles matches. Not all players competing in games Friday
and Saturday, the captain of each team can select the eight players
competing in each of the four rounds of these two days. |
