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The PGA of America has announced a callow eight-year contract with CBS Sports to televise the PGA Championship through 2019, which includes back of The PGA's Centennial in 2016. CBS Sports has reached a new, eight-year concord with The PGA of America to confer show rights of the PGA Championship through 2019, which includes verify of The PGA's Centennial in 2016. The declaration was made Thursday by PGA President Allen Wronowski, PGA Chief Executive Officer Joe Steranka, and CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus. "We are unusually gratified to go our 20-year partnership with the PGA of America," said McManus.

"The PGA Championship is one of the most famed sporting events in the world, and we are thrilled to with to radio this paramount championship on Network television. With this long-term extension, CBS Sports will service its management dispose as the main Network of golf programming well into the future." "The PGA of America has been auspicious to have a valued team-mate in CBS Sports that has worked so well with revealing the significant yarn of the Season's Final Major," said Wronowski. "The PGA Championship's trademark is its commitment to annually peculiarity the strongest ground in notable Championship golf, and the world's clip players have returned by producing some of golf's most striking moments.

As The PGA and our 27,000 PGA Professionals solemnize our 95th Anniversary in 2011, and begin the countdown to our Centennial, The PGA of America is disturbed about extending this wonderful partnership that brings the PGA Championship story-line to golf and sports fans around the country." Spanning the seniority of televised sport, CBS Sports has captured the theatre of the PGA Championship, which has defined some of the most signature moments in golf history. "Starting with the earliest PGA Championship of the stroke-play day in 1958, and continuously since John Daly's miracle while under way at Crooked Stick in 1991, CBS Sports has partnered with The PGA of America to lead the extravaganza of the PGA Championship to golf fans everywhere," said Steranka. "The PGA of America is enchanted to annually hurl one of the most coveted Championships in all of skip about to a worldwide audience, featuring the best players from around the globe.

And we are thrilled that CBS Sports will also showcase to the state the talents of PGA Professionals, as the experts in the daring and function of golf." Each year, CBS Sports will give birth to five hours of superior explanation coverage of each of the ultimate two weekend Championship rounds. Additionally, CBS Sports will make annual one-hour specials on The PGA of America and also the "Road to the PGA Championship" program, which highlights the behind-the-scenes stories of the 20 PGA Professionals participating in the Season's Final Major.

A promotional drive highlighting The PGA's Centennial Celebration will appear on CBS Sports during 2016. The PGA Championship is one of only four vital golf events in the men and the only one featuring an all-professional field. It perennially hosts the strongest participants and deepest supranational lineup of any foremost golf championship. Since 1994, the PGA Championship has featured the most top-100 world-ranked players of any greater championship.

Since 1916, golf's best professionals have been competing for the PGA Championship's coveted Wanamaker Trophy. Past champions include: Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and brand-new global stars Padraig Harrington, Y.E. Yang and Martin Kaymer, the defending PGA Champion.

About The PGA of America Celebrating its 95th year, The PGA of America has maintained a twofold activity of its founders: to ensconce and elevate the standards of the craft and to fructify weight and participation in the play of golf. By establishing and elevating the standards of the golf trade through world-class education, trade services, marketing and analyse programs, The PGA enables its professionals to inflate their carrying out in their several livelihood paths and showcases them as experts in the competition and in a multi-billion dollar golf industry. By creating and delivering Thespian world-class championships and enticing and enjoyable promotions that are viewed as the best of their arrange in the golf industry, The PGA of America elevates the public's portion in the game, the give one's eye-teeth for to drama more golf, and ensures accessibility to the adventurous enough for everyone, everywhere. The PGA of America make represents the very best in golf.

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