The 2004 PGA Championship was the 86th PGA Championship, played August 1215 at the

Straits Course of the Whistling Straits complex in Haven, Wisconsin (postal address Kohler).[1] The
purse was $6.25 million and the winner's share was $1.125 million.
Vijay Singh, the 1998 champion, earned his third and final major title in a three-hole aggregate
playoff, defeating Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco.[2] At the time Singh, age 41, was third in
the world rankings;[3] the win moved him to #2 and he ascended to the top spot three weeks later,
displacing Tiger Woods.[4]
It was the first major championship at the expansive Straits Course, designed by Pete Dye and
opened in 1998,[5] which allowed high attendance and was highly profitable for the PGA of America. It
set records with over 94,400 tickets sold and an overall attendance of 320,000 for the week. [6] The
overall economic impact was $76.9 million, shattering the previous record of $50.4 million in 2002,
and nearly doubling that of 2003.[7]
The PGA Championship returned just six years later, in 2010, displacing the more confined Sahalee
Country Club near Seattle,[8][9][10][11] which hosted in 1998, Singh's first major win. The admittance at
Sahalee in 1998 was capped at 25,000 per day by the PGA of America, [12] In early 2005, its chief
executive officer, Jim Awtrey, cited the proximity to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as the
main reason for the retraction, and that Sahalee was targeted for 2012 to 2015 for another PGA
Championship.[8][10] Whistling Straits was awarded the 2010 event days later.[13] The PGA of America
has yet to commit to a return to Sahalee before 2020, or any other venue in the West.