A Quick Guide To Golf Championships

If you are trying to learn how to be a golf master, you must understand the essentials of the game, particularly the big golf competitions that happen every year. Just like a real basketball fan knows about the key NBA games and tournaments, and the Olympic championship game, any faithful golfing fanatic has to be knowledgeable about the most important tournaments.

U.S. PGA Tournament - The PGA TOUR is a group of golf contests taking place over the duration of the year that have various prizes and competitors. The competitions are thrown at golf courses all across the U.S. from Hawaii to Florida. There are playoffs that take place near the last part of the year. To date, the competitor with the highest total amount of cash won from the PGA TOUR at the moment is Tiger Woods with $77,515,376.

One of the four majors, the PGA Championship is actually a part of the tour mentioned above. It is the final of the four major championships and is usually played in August time to round the year off. Winning this (or any other major) gives you a raft of invitations to all the big tournaments and exempts you from qualifying for this one ever again!

Don't forget the other three major events! The US Open, the Open Championship (also known as the British Championship) and the Masters, all with a prize pool of around $7,000,000 each. They are all unique in their requirements, locations and the players who choose to play them. Let's take a look at each:

The Masters Championship is strange in that it is always played on the same course, Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. The final round is scheduled for the second Sunday in April with a tricky par of 72. The course was opened in 1933 and has been played on ever since apart from during World War 2.

If win the Masters then you become and honorary member of the club and get a distinctive green jacket. This jacket has been awarded since 1949 and is highly prized among golfers. They keep it for one year and then give it back to the club who hold it for them to wear whenever they visit. The winner from the year before is supposed to place the jacket on the latest winner.

The U.S. Open is organized in June and allows both amateurs and experts. Participants must have a handicap index of 1.4 or less. Varied host golf courses are decided on each year for the U.S. Open in the United States. This is one competition where either male or female golfers may be accepted into the tournament.

The Open Championship, a.k.a. the British Open, is a golf competition thrown at varied golf venues in the United Kingdom. It is usually organized the third week of July. The record for total triumphs at the Open Championship is six, held by Harry Vardon, whose final appearance was in 1914. The Open is the first of all the most well-known golf competitions.