A PGA Championship like no other comes to San Francisco

In one of the most anticipated sporting events since the COVID-19 pandemic sent sports into a deep freeze in March, the PGA Championship comes to San Francisco this week with several top players out to make history.

Originally scheduled for May, the tournament was pushed back to August, when San Francisco's thick fog often blankets the city.Starting on Thursday, it will be the first of three majors this year, with the world's top players competing to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy and collect a US$1.98 million cheque on Sunday.

"It's going to be very different," said four-time PGA Championship winner Tiger Woods, who in normal times would have a flock of fans at every hole he played. Yet he is decidedly an underdog, having only played once since the tour resumed in June. The chilly conditions could also cause his surgically-repaired back to tighten up, limiting his movement.Favourite Brooks Koepka is looking to become the only player to win the tournament three years in a row since it switched from being a matchplay event to a stroke play event in 1958.Koepka has been in this position before. He won back-to-back U.S.

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