Club: Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean Course)

Location: Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Date: August 6-12, 2012

PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds: One of the most storied events on the PGA Tour calendar on an annual basis, the PGA Championship provides golf betting fans with a great chance to boost their bankrolls. As one of the four tournaments classified as "major championships," the PGA is always one of the hottest contested four day stretches of the season.

From 1916 to 1957, this tournament was actually played in match play form, not traditional stroke play. Ever since 1958 though, strokes have been counted to determine the winner.

The course that the PGA Championship is played at rotates every year. This season, Kiawah Island Golf Resort in Kiawah Island, South Carolina will be the home of the event. Probably no other golf course in the world outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland is affected as much by the wind. From one round to the next, a player can experience up to an 8-club difference on holes depending upon the direction and strength of the wind a fact that became readily apparent at the famed 1991 Ryder Cup held at The Ocean Course. During the relatively benign practice rounds, players hit 7 and 8-irons into the treacherous par-3 17th hole. By Sunday, with a stiff wind in their face, players were hitting everything from 3-irons to 3-woods.

Overall, 71 courses in 25 states have served as a host site for at least one of the 91 PGA Championships. Since 1994, the PGA Championship has featured the most players in the Top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings, and perennially has boasted the strongest field in golf. The 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., established an all-time record for world-ranked participants, with 98 of the Top 100.

Americans have dominated this event since 1996, but the likely suspects you would think to be on this list, though there, aren't the only ones that are past winners. As a golf betting enthusiast, you wouldn't think of Mark Brooks, Davis Love III, David Toms, Rich Beem, and Shaun Micheel winning major tournaments. However, Phil Mickelson also won this event in 2005.

Toms owns the scoring record at both the PGA Championship and for all major tournaments overall with his 265 shot in 2001. However, in relation to par, Woods owns the record at the PGA Championship at -18 in both 2000 and 2006.

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2011 PGA Championship Winner - Titletown USA adds another champion in PGA winner Keegan Bradley

Wearing the home red and white of his beloved Boston Red Sox, New England golfer Keegan Bradley joined the Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots in the world champions’ winner’s circle after Sunday’s decisive playoff victory at the PGA Championship.

The Woodstock, Vt., native put the finishing touches on his first major -- and second title of his rookie season -- with stellar shot-making in the three-hole playoff. Like the 2004 Sox, who battled back from a 3-0 playoff deficit to the New York Yankees and went on to capture their first World Series championship in 86 years, Bradley came back from being five down with three to play after a triple-bogey on the par-3 15th.

Hit the short stuff he did, with what Bradley described as his best shot of the week. He went on to birdie that and the next hole, helped by a quick 40-footer with his belly putter on 17, to play himself into extra innings with a closing-round 68.

A birdie-par-par finish in overtime started the cowbells ringing throughout New England. Indeed, the 25-year-old who grew up skiing the mountains of Vermont proudly displayed his colors after tapping in for the win on his 75th green.

Kaymer Wins 2010 PGA Championship

PGA Championship 2011 Results – The ending in Whistling Straits Wisconsin will be remembered for awhile for its exciting ending and bizarre events. Martin Kaymer came up big to win his first major event on Sunday in a final that needed a 3-hole playoff to decide the winner.

To get to the playoffs the 25 year old German made a critical play in the 18th hole to catch Watson. He made a birdie putt in the playoffs to put the pressure on Watson. Watson would then have a run of bad plays or bad luck depending on who you talk to finish a double bogey that hit the water and a bunker before finally resting in the hole. Kaymer would get a bogey for the win.