[2] Tiger Woods won his third PGA Championship and twelfth major title, five shots ahead of runner-up Shaun Micheel, the 2003 champion.

3 Course Previous course lengths for major championships: Thursday, August 17, 2006 Chris Riley and Lucas Glover set the pace in round one shooting six under 66s.

Friday, August 18, 2006 Four players shared the lead at the conclusion of the second round, including Tim Herron, Billy Andrade, Luke Donald and Henrik Stenson.

Big names that missed the cut included: Vijay Singh, John Daly, Fred Couples, and Colin Montgomerie.

Tiger Woods tied his record for the aggregate low score in PGA Championship history (shared with Bob May at Valhalla in 2000) at 18 strokes under-par.