For many golf followers, Tiger Woods’ triumph within the Oklahoma warmth is all we all know of Southern Hills.
The Tulsa course will host this yr’s PGA Championship, having undergone important transformation since Woods’ victory in 2007, when it final hosted a Main Championship.
With the temperature additionally set to be considerably cooler than when John Daly wanted 12 Weight-reduction plan Cokes simply to get by way of his spherical, Southern Hills might be an unrecognisable, new expertise for a lot of.
However it is a place with historical past. And a fairly darkish one at that.
It has hosted seven Majors in whole, however none are extra well-known than the 1977 US Open.
Hubert Inexperienced took a two-shot lead into the ultimate spherical – and had a lot extra than simply nerves to deal with.
The FBI acquired an nameless tip on Saturday from a lady who claimed that her boyfriend and two different males have been planning to shoot Inexperienced on the fifteenth gap on Sunday.
Inexperienced was knowledgeable of the risk on his life after he had accomplished the 14th gap – but he determined to hold on.
After an understandably wild tee-shot, he someway managed to save lots of par because the risk proved to be empty.
The American went on to win the event after finishing the closing holes beneath the safety of armed police.
It was by no means found who made the decision and the motive stays a thriller.
4 years later, one man would lose his life at Southern Hills.
Those that have seen ‘The Departed’ would possibly concentrate on Whitey Bulger, who the movie is loosely primarily based on.
The infamous mobster ordered a success on Roger Wheeler after the businessman found Bulger’s Winter Hill gang was embezzling cash from certainly one of his firms.
Wheeler was shot within the Southern Hills automobile park in Might 1981.
Golf is a recreation obsessive about historical past – and the Tulsa observe might be hoping to create some extra nice reminiscences when the second Main of the yr begins on Thursday .