Sudarshan Yellamaraju will get his first shot at a major in the upcoming PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
The tournament announced on Sunday that the Canadian has secured the final spot in the event’s field.<\/p>\n
Yellamaraju will join fellow Canucks Taylor Pendrith, Corey Conners and Nick Taylor among the 156 players set to tee it up at Aronimink Golf Club.<\/p>\n
Yellamaraju was listed as the first alternate, set to enter the tournament for his major debut if any player withdrew or if a winner of the Truist Championship or Myrtle Beach Classic was already included in the initial field.<\/p>\n
So, when Kristoffer Reitan \u2014 already set to compete \u2014 won at Myrtle Beach on Sunday, Yellamaraju took the spot.<\/p>\n
Yellamaraju, a PGA Tour rookie, exploded onto the scene at The Players Championship, where he placed in the top five, and followed it up a week later with a top-six finish at the Texas Children’s Houston Open.<\/p>\n
He finished tied for 19th, finishing five under at this weekend’s Truist Championship.<\/p>\n
The PGA Championship is set for May 14-17 just outside of Philadelphia in Newtown Square, Penn. Scottie Scheffler is the defending champion.<\/p>\n
No Canadian man has won a major since Mike Weir at the 2003 Masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sudarshan Yellamaraju will get his first shot at a major in the upcoming PGA Championship. The tournament announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-661280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}