Five great moments from the US PGA Championship: Record-breaking Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods holds on

Record-breaking McIlroy In 2012 at Kiawah Island, one of the relative new stars on the scene was a fresh faced, curly haired, Rory McIlroy who was competing in only his fourth PGA Championship. In his three previous starts at the event, the Northern Irishman already had a pair of tied thirds to his name. Ad Mother Nature bare her teeth during the weekend forcing most to cram a round and a half of golf into the final day.

The results were disastrous for some. But not for a certain McIlroy. BMW PGA ChampionshipAnkle injury rules Woods out of PGA Championship, Spieth to play10/05/2023 AT 18:33 Arriving at the tee to get his final round underway, many were worrying that McIlroy would crumble under the pressure.

Something that felled him in cataclysmic fashion at The Masters the previous year where he shot the worst round in history by any professional golfer leading after the third round — 80. Instead, he surged, burying the competition with a six-under 66 to win by eight shots, surpassing Jack Nicklaus in 1980 for the widest margin of victory in tournament history. McIlroy now had two major victories under his belt, both of which came in record-breaking fashion, having won the 2011 US Open by posting an incredible 16-under total.

After a summer in which he missed three out of four cuts, this was exactly the result McIlroy needed as he took a hold of the top spot in the World Ranking’s once again. John Daly — A star is born John Daly is well known these days, sometimes for his hard-living more than his golf skills, but in 1991 he was still a relative nobody. So much so, that he was the ninth alternate for the US PGA Championship and he only made it because Nick Price withdrew with the birth of his first child imminent.