2008 PGA Championship

The 2008 PGA Championship was the 90th PGA Championship, played from August 7–10 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. It was the ninth major championship contested at the South Course and the first in twelve years, when Steve Jones won the 1996 U.S. Open. The PGA Championship returned to "The Monster" for the first time in 29 years; the 1979 event was won by David Graham.

The 2008 event was won by Pádraig Harrington, his second consecutive major and third overall. His three-under 277 was two strokes better than runners-up Ben Curtis and Sergio García. Harrington earned $1.35 million for the victory, and became the first European-born winner of the PGA Championship in 78 years, last accomplished in the match play era by Tommy Armour of Scotland in 1930 (by then a naturalized U.S. citizen). Harrington was the first winner from Ireland, and the first European to win the Open Championship and the PGA Championship in the same year.

Tiger Woods, the two-time defending champion, did not compete due to rehabilitation for a season-ending knee surgery following his playoff victory in the U.S. Open in June.

Television coverage was provided nationally by CBS and TNT and on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland. Coverage was in High Definition.

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