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Two Former Cards Ready for PGA Championship
August 12, 2015 | Men's Golf
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Former University of Louisville men's golfers Grant Sturgeon and Adam Rainaud will compete in the 97th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis., on Thursday-Sunday.
Sturgeon will tee off at 6:55 a.m. on Thursday, while Rainaud gets underway at 8:45 a.m. off the first tee.
Sturgeon, who played at Louisville from 1999-02, won the PGA Assistant Championship to earn a spot in this week's major tournament. He closed with a 7-under 65 - the best final round in tournament history - for a seven-stroke victory over Kenny Pigman.
Sturgeon, a PGA assistant professional at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, New York, had a 13-under 275 total on PGA Golf Club's Wanamaker Course.
Rainaud of South Hadley, Mass., is on property at Whistling Straits, a Pete Dye design on the western shoreline of Lake Michigan. And so too are 97 of the world's top 100 players.
One thing you want to do is play in as many major championships and PGA Tour events as you can,'' Rainaud said. "It still hasn't sunk in yet. But things like packing, getting on the plane, driving up the entrance, the locker room . . . those are things that make it exciting.''
Rainaud, an assistant pro at Black Hall Club in Old Lyme, Conn., qualified by virtue of his 10th place finish at the Professional National Championship in Philadelphia in late June.
Accolades including playing at the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship in 2014 and becoming the first to win all five major championships within the Connecticut Section PGA. Rainaud starred at the University of Louisville and South Hadley High School.
