FACTS & FIGURES

Event: 105th PGA Championship

Dates: May1 8-21

Site: Oak Hill CC (East)

Length: 7,394 yards

Par: 70

Field: 156 players (20 PGA professionals)

Prize money: TBA ($15 million in 2022)

Winner’s share: TBA ($2.7 million in 2022)

Defending champion: Justin Thomas

Last year: Thomas won the PGA Championship for the second time and tied the tournament record by rallying from seven shots behind. He closed with a 3-under 67 at Southern Hills and then beat Will Zalatoris in a three-hole playoff. Mito Pereira had a one-shot lead going to the 18th hole and made double bogey to finish one shot out of the playoff.

Tiger Tales: Tiger Woods had ankle surgery last month and will miss the PGA Championship, and likely the rest of the majors this year.

Major champions at Oak Hill: Jason Dufner (2013 PGA Championship), Shaun Micheel (2003 PGA Championship), Curtis Strange (1989 U.S. Open), Jack Nicklaus (1980 PGA Championship), Lee Trevino (1968 U.S. Open), Cary Middlecoff (1956 U.S. Open).

Key statistic: In the last 10 years, every major champion has been among the top 50 in the world except for Phil Mickelson (No. 115) when he won in 2021 at age 50.

Noteworthy: Collin Morikawa is the only PGA Championship winner in the last five years who had never won a major. That’s the fewest of the four majors since 2018.

Quoteworthy: “I’m starting to build back some momentum.” — Phil Mickelson, a runner-up atthem asters at age 52.

Television (all times EDT): Thursday-friday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ESPN+), 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. (ESPN); Saturday-sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. (ESPN+), 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ESPN), 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. (CBS).