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Coming off his victory in last month's British Open, Woods headlines the event. For the first two rounds, he's paired up with Phil Mickelson, perhaps the second biggest name on the Tour. The Trib's David Haugh will be liveblogging their rounds.
So what does Medina's 7,561 yards, Par 72 Course #3 have in store for the worlds best golfers? PGA.com has a hole-by-hole video tour!
Both the Tribune and the Sun-Times offer additional coverage of the event.
In related golf news, the PGA is rethinking its decision to rotate the BMW (formerly Western) Open among various midwestern cities. While the event will rotate for the next couple years, it might remain exclusively in Chicago again after 2010. While the tourney moves to St. Louis in 2008 and Indianapolis in 2010, it could move back to Cog Hill for good after that. The PGA was surprised by the amount of fan outrage over the proposed changes. And Even Tiger Woods thought the tournament should remain in Chicago. And if Tiger wants it to be...
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I hear the parking lot is arlington race track, and it will rain all weekend, and tickets are only $100. This will probably be the last time the champiionship will be held at medinah.
Yeah, we did a shitty job with the US Open in 1975 and 1990 and the PGA Championship in 1999 was a snore. Oh, and we get the Ryder Cup in 2012, so yeah, we're on the B-list.
They've really gone to great lengths to Tiger-proof the course this year...
Google map of Medinah
and, if you head downtown, you can catch all the live updates outside the nbc building on the big board they've got set up.