SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – (August 16, 2015) The 2015 PGA Championship came to a close on Sunday evening as Australia’s Jason Day won his first-ever major championship with a three-shot victory over American Jordan Spieth.
The 97th edition of the season’s final major, which was played on the rugged, windswept terrain at Whistling Straits in Sheboygan, Wis. from Aug. 10-16, marked the fifth PGA Championship at which OMEGA, an Official Patron of The PGA of America, served as Official Timekeeper.
OMEGA Ambassador Rory McIlroy, who won the PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014, finished at nine under par and in 17th place in his first tournament back after an ankle injury. Day shot a four-day total of 268 (68, 67, 66, 67) and finished 20 under par to win the famed Wannamaker Trophy.
To commemorate his PGA Championship victory, Day was presented with an OMEGA Seamaster Aqua Terra “Golf” Master Co-Axial timepiece by the PGA of America President Derek Sprague at a private ceremony in the clubhouse.
The timepiece was created to celebrate the brand’s expanded presence in the world of golf and is powered by OMEGA’s revolutionary Master Co-Axial calibre 8500 self-winding mechanical movement. With its green transferred “Seamaster” name and matching numbers on the minute track, the watch recalls the verdant courses where golf’s great events are contested and fashionably identifies itself with the sport.
Looking ahead, all eyes will be on OMEGA – and the sport of golf – in 2016.
The 98th PGA Championship, where OMEGA will again be on hand as Official Timekeeper, is set for July 25-31, 2016 at the iconic Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.
Just one week later on Aug. 5, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio – where OMEGA will serve as Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games for the 27th time and where golf returns as an Olympic sport for the first time in more than a century – will begin.
Then, in the fall of 2016, OMEGA will serve as Official Timekeeper of the Ryder Cup for the second time. The tournament, which is one of the most popular and hotly anticipated events on the golfing calendar, is a competition between teams from Europe and the United States contested every two years, alternating between American and European courses. It will be held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., from Sept. 27 – Oct. 2, 2016.
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