Who doesn’t love some extra golf?
The 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park is heating up in the final round and the top of the leaderboard is becoming quite crowded.
Dustin Johnson started the day with the lead but Bryson DeChambeau, Scottie Scheffler, Matthew Wolff, Tony Finau, Paul Casey, Cameron Champ, Collin Morikawa, Daniel Berger, Justin Rose, Jason Day and Patrick Reed all duking it out.
If the PGA Championship does go to a playoff, here’s what the format will look like:
In the event of a tie for first place after 72 holes, there will be a three-hole aggregate score playoff on holes 16, 17 and 18. If a tie still remains, there will be a hole-by-hole playoff beginning on No. 18, and, if necessary, on to holes 16, 17 and 18 repeated until a winner is determined.
It’s been a decade since we had a playoff in the PGA Championship.
In 2010, Martin Kaymer knocked out Bubba Watson to win at Whistling Straits. Other playoffs were 2004 (Vijay Singh), 2000 (Tiger Woods), 1996 (Mark Brooks), 1995 (Steve Elkington), 1993 (Paul Azinger), 1987 (Larry Nelson), 1979 (David Graham), 1978 (John Mahaffey), 1977 (Lanny Wadkins), 1967 (Don January) and 1961 (Jerry Barber).
That’s a total of 12 playoffs since 1958, the first year the PGA Championship went to a stroke-play format.
