PSA: PGA Grand Slam of Golf

[Harry Longshanks]

Almost forgot this was on tomorrow and Wednesday.

I know it's a "made for TV" event, but it's interesting because there are only 4 players and you get to see every shot from every player. It's always fun to see how a round develops, and ebbs and flows.

Trevor Immelman (Masters)
Padraig Harrington (Open Championship and PGA)
Retief Goosen (2001 and 2004 U.S. Open)
Jim Furyk (2003 U.S. Open)

Not really a spoiler below. Just an easy way to condense a lot of (now irrelevant) typing. I didn't want to delete it in case anyone had the same question.

I'm still trying to figure out how Jim Furyk and Retief Goosen got in. I thought they took the most recent available winner for the slot where this year's winner is not available.

2008 U.S. Open - Tiger Woods (injured)
2007 U.S. Open - Angel Cabrera
2006 U.S. Open - Geoff Ogilvy
2005 U.S. Open - Michael Campbell
2004 U.S. Open - Retief Goosen
2003 U.S. Open - Jim Furyk

2008 PGA - Pardaig Harrington (already in British Open slot)
2007 PGA - Tiger Woods (injured)
2006 PGA - Tiger Woods (injured)
2005 PGA - Phil Mickelson (declined???)
2004 PGA - Vijay Singh (injured)
2003 PGA - Shaun Micheel

Or if Padraig Harrington was assigned the PGA spot, leaving the British Open spot available:

2008 Open - Pardaig Harrington (already in PGA slot)
2007 Open - Pardaig Harrington (already in PGA slot)
2006 Open - Tiger Woods (injured)
2005 Open - Tiger Woods (injured)
2004 Open - Todd Hamilton

Either way, why are Goosen and Furyk the alternates instead of Cabrera, Ogilvy, Campbell, Micheel, or Hamilton?

EDIT: Aww crap. After all that typing, I found that it's a points list based on finishing positions in each of the 4 majors this year and the first alternate (Mickelson) declined. Goosen was the second alternate, and Furyk was the third alternate.

[MO_Hacker]

Harry,
What channel and what time is it on?

[Smallville]

MO_Hacker -

TNT it's on from 3 PM-6 PM our time.
Tomorrow from 4 to 8.

You can watch it live online, just search for "PGA Grand Slam of Golf."

[MO_Hacker]

thank you

[Mikey]

Crap looks like I saw this to late. I will have to search for it online.

[907golfer12]

Crap looks like I saw this to late. I will have to search for it online.

No, it is on TNT in 13 minutes.

[golf rules]

Go Jim!!!!!

[MO_Hacker]

That was pretty fun to watch. Glad to see Immelman get that eagle on a par 4, he was really struggling.

[TinCupTampa]

"Re: PSA: PGA Grand Slam of Golf"

What does PSA stand for?

[Smallville]

Public Service Announcement is what I figured it meant.

[bruce]

That was pretty fun to watch. Glad to see Immelman get that eagle on a par 4, he was really struggling.

Yeah,that was great,very nearly a hole in one.Great second shot by Jim on the playoff hole.

[drewdown]

First time I really watched Furyk play and man does he have a non-traditional swing!

[Smallville]

Drew -

A few years ago it was even weirder! Same basic swing, just a little more extreme.

[drewdown]

Drew -

I can only imagine!