The PGA Championship has been played in August every year save one since 1971, but this week’s Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte will be the next to last: Beginning in 2019, it’ll permanently move to May and become the year’s second major.
The change, in the works for a few years, is expected to be officially announced later today, but the news has been leaked to the AP already. And it’s going to mean a major shift to golf’s calendar. Now the four majors will take place in April (the Masters), May, June (the U.S. Open), and July (the Open Championship), rather than cramming the last three of them into a seven-week stretch in the height of summer.
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There are a number of reasons for the change.
All fine reasons to make the change. (It’ll kick in with the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on Long Island, N.Y.) But I can’t help thinking we’re going to miss having a major in August, in the peak of the sports calendar’s dead zone. One whole extra weekend with nothing to watch but baseball’s slog.
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