CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The winner of the Masters will get a advantageous new piece of attire. The winner of the Open Championship will get a jug appropriate for all the things from advantageous wine to barbecue sauce. The winner of the PGA Championship? Nicely, he’ll get a trophy giant sufficient to ice down a complete case of beer.
Behold the Wanamaker Trophy, the biggest of the 4 main trophies, a beast of an award. “It appears heavy. It is huge,” Rory McIlroy, who’s gained two of them, mentioned earlier this week. “I did not understand how heavy it was, but it surely’s fairly meaty.”
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Certainly. Named for Rodman Wanamaker, who established the PGA, the trophy weighs 27 kilos, is about 27 inches handle-to-handle, and stands 28 inches tall. The winner annually will get a barely smaller duplicate of the trophy; the unique stays on the PGA’s Frisco, Texas, headquarters … with the brand new winner’s title engraved on it, in fact.
Earlier this week, a number of different trophies of notice visited Quail Hole and “posed” for an image alongside the Wanamaker. They embrace the Stanley Cup (35 kilos), the NBA’s Larry O’Brien Trophy (15.5 kilos) and the NASCAR Cup (68 kilos). Collectively, they made for fairly a championship combo.
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Whoever wins the Wanamaker this weekend ought to keep in mind it’s really a two-piece deal. Collin Morikawa discovered that the exhausting means again in 2020, when he hoisted the trophy and despatched the highest spiraling to the turf.
Talking of hoisting … as McIlroy famous, there’s positively a bonus for the trophy’s weight. “It’s good for the images as a result of your biceps are often flexed,” he joked. “So it makes you look a bit stronger than you really are.”
Irrespective of how a lot it weighs, it’ll really feel feather-light to the PGA champion on Sunday evening.
