2012 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
The 2012 PGA Championship marked the 94th time the tournament was played. Rory McIlroy won his second major championship here, doing it with a tournament-record margin of victory.
Winner: Rory McIlroy, 275
Where it was played: Kiawah Island Resort (The Ocean Course), Kiawah Island, South Carolina
Tournament dates: August 9-12, 2012
Leader after first round: Carl Pettersson, 66
Leader after second round: Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Carl Pettersson, 140
Leader after third round: Rory McIlroy, 209
What Happened in the 2012 PGA Championship
At the 2011 U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy won by eight strokes to claim his first win in a major. At the 2012 PGA Championship, McIlroy again won by eight strokes, taking his second trophy in a major. And that margin set a new record here: McIlroy broke the tournament record for largest margin of victory in a PGA Championship. Jack Nicklaus had been the recordholder with a 7-stroke win at the 1980 PGA Championship.McIlroy opened the tournament with a 67, then struggled to a 75 in Round 2. That 75 didn't hurt him too badly, though, as the field scoring average in Round 2 was near 78, the highest average score in any PGA Championship to this point.
Near the beginning of McIlroy's third round, an incident happened that might have derailed his quest, had he let it. He hit a drive on the third hole that never came down — it flew into a dead cypress tree and stuck in the tree branch. McIlroy had to take a 1-stroke penalty for an unplayable lie, but after dropping, he hit a great approach to the green, then sank the putt to salvage par. After that, it was mostly smooth sailing.
The only thing that got in McIlroy's way (other than the tree) was the weather on Saturday at South Carolina's Ocean Course. A heavy band of thunderstorms stopped third-round play, requiring many golfers to complete the round on Sunday morning.
Tiger Woods was one competitor who lost ground in that third round, and Woods fell farther behind in the final round, eventually finishing tied for 11th. When the 23-year-old McIlroy won, he reached his second career win in a major at a younger age than Tiger, by four months.
Journeyman David Lynn, who received a special invitational from the PGA of America to play, wound up in second place. Defending champion Keegan Bradley was among those tied for third.
McIlroy wound up posting three rounds of 67 or better to go with that second-round 75, finishing at 13-under 275.
2012 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Rory McIlroy | 67-75-67-66—275 |
| David Lynn | 73-74-68-68—283 |
| Keegan Bradley | 68-77-71-68—284 |
| Justin Rose | 69-79-70-66—284 |
| Ian Poulter | 70-71-74-69—284 |
| Carl Pettersson | 66-74-72-72—284 |
| Blake Adams | 71-72-75-67—285 |
| Jamie Donaldson | 69-73-73-70—285 |
| Peter Hanson | 69-75-70-71—285 |
| Steve Stricker | 74-73-67-71—285 |
| Tiger Woods | 69-71-74-72—286 |
| Geoff Ogilvy | 68-78-70-70—286 |
| Ben Curtis | 69-77-73-67—286 |
| Bubba Watson | 73-75-70-68—286 |
| Tim Clark | 71-73-73-69—286 |
| Graeme McDowell | 68-76-71-71—286 |
| Adam Scott | 68-75-70-73—286 |
| Bo Van Pelt | 73-73-67-74—287 |
| Padraig Harrington | 70-76-69-72—287 |
| John Daly | 68-77-73-69—287 |
| Jimmy Walker | 73-75-67-73—288 |
| Robert Garrigus | 74-73-74-67—288 |
| Seung-Yul Noh | 74-75-74-65—288 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 70-79-70-69—288 |
| Joost Luiten | 68-76-75-69—288 |
| Pat Perez | 69-76-71-72—288 |
| Marc Leishman | 74-72-71-72—289 |
| Jason Dufner | 74-76-68-71—289 |
| Thorbjorn Olesen | 75-74-71-69—289 |
| Miguel Angel Jimenez | 69-77-72-71—289 |
| Trevor Immelman | 71-72-70-76—289 |
| Greg Chalmers | 70-76-72-72—290 |
| John Senden | 73-74-72-71—290 |
| Bill Haas | 75-73-69-73—290 |
| Luke Donald | 74-76-74-66—290 |
| Rich Beem | 72-76-72-71—291 |
| Y.E. Yang | 73-74-74-70—291 |
| Marcel Siem | 72-73-71-75—291 |
| Phil Mickelson | 73-71-73-74—291 |
| Fredrik Jacobson | 71-75-73-72—291 |
| Vijay Singh | 71-69-74-77—291 |
| Jim Furyk | 72-77-70-73—292 |
| J.J. Henry | 72-77-70-73—292 |
| Aaron Baddeley | 68-75-74-75—292 |
| Gary Woodland | 67-79-75-71—292 |
| David Toms | 72-78-72-70—292 |
| Martin Laird | 71-74-79-68—292 |
| Paul Lawrie | 73-75-71-74—293 |
| Ernie Els | 72-75-73-73—293 |
| Dustin Johnson | 71-79-72-71—293 |
| Thomas Bjorn | 70-79-74-70—293 |
| Retief Goosen | 73-75-75-70—293 |
| Scott Piercy | 68-78-79-69—294 |
| Francesco Molinari | 70-75-74-75—294 |
| Sang-Moon Bae | 72-78-71-73—294 |
| Darren Clarke | 73-76-72-73—294 |
| Brendon de Jonge | 71-78-72-73—294 |
| K.J. Choi | 69-77-75-73—294 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 70-77-74-74—295 |
| Ryo Ishikawa | 69-77-79-70—295 |
| Kyung-Tae Kim | 69-77-77-73—296 |
| Ken Duke | 71-78-74-74—297 |
| Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano | 67-78-75-77—297 |
| Chez Reavie | 74-76-73-74—297 |
| George McNeill | 71-76-80-70—297 |
| Alexander Noren | 67-80-73-78—298 |
| Marcus Fraser | 74-75-78-71—298 |
| John Huh | 72-78-79-70—299 |
| Toru Taniguchi | 72-76-78-73—299 |
| Zach Johnson | 72-73-76-79—300 |
| Matt Every | 72-76-74-82—304 |
| Cameron Tringale | 69-78-77-82—306 |
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