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Medinah Country Club: Pga Championship
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Medinah Country Club is a private country club in Medinah, Illinois with nearly 600 members and 640 acres containing three golf courses, Lake Kadijah, swimming facilities and a Byzantine-style, mosque-evoking clubhouse with Oriental, Louis XIV and Italian architectural aspects. Medinah is widely known for its Course #3, a 7,508 yard (7,385 m) golf course which has hosted three U.S. Opens (1949, 1975, 1990) and two PGA Championships (1999, 2006).
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Medinah Country Club tipped in favor of the easy in the PGA Championship. Tiger Woods won at 18 under par, six other players finished under par by double digits and 40 players broke par for the tournament.
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The Medinah 1 Course at Medinah Country Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Medinah, Illinois. This medium-length layout has adequate length for a regulation course. Overall this course plays quite difficult, at least from the back tees it does. Trouble surrounds many of the greens. There are 2 other courses at this same golf club, the Championship Course, and the Medinah 2 Course. Online tee times may be available at Medinah Country Club or at nearby golf courses, often at a substantial discount from the going green fees rate.
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Medinah is home to the Medinah Country Club, which hosted the USGA US Open in 1990, 1975, 1949, 1946, and 1937. Medinah ... hosted the 1999 and 2006 PGA Championships. The club is scheduled to host the 2012 Ryder Cup.
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MEDINAH, Ill. - A mellow, patient Tiger Woods fielded questions from the media for 30 minutes Tuesday afternoon in preparation for the 88th PGA Championship on the No. 3 Course at Medinah Country Club. Woods won the 1999 PGA Championship here, out-lasting 19-year-old Sergio Garcia. But the course has undergone significant changes since then. Architect Rees Jones has added 160 yards, stretching the layout to 7,561 yards, the longest in major championship history. Jones ... removed about 300 trees and renovated seven greens.
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Tiger Woods delivered another peerless performance at Medinah Country Club to rack up his 12th Major Championship and move closing to supplanting Jack Nicklaus as the most prolific accumulator of Majors in golfing history. Woods, who started the final round of the 88th US PGA Championship tied with England’s Luke Donald, closed with a 68 for an 18 under par total of 270 and a five stroke victory over Shaun Micheel with Donald, Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott sharing third place.
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