The Wanamaker Trophy, the biggest (physically) prize in golf, might weigh as much as supermodel Kate Moss, but that's no problem for a strapping young lad like Tiger Woods ...
On this day in 1916, over steaks and cocktails at a posh club on Broadway in New York City, the PGA of America was born during a business lunch hosted by the department store heir Rodman Wanamaker. The host, realising the potential for America to have an association similar to Britain's Professional Golfers' Association of Great Britain, invited 35 pro and amateur golfers to a luncheon at the Taplow Club in the Hotel Martinique.
The food and drink must have been good, because at the end of the day, everybody said "what a jolly good idea this is", and Wanamaker donated $2,500 (a pretty healthy $48,000 in today's money) to establish the PGA of America, the prize money for the first PGA Championship, and it's great big whopping trophy (which needs to be big to fit Wanamaker's name on it) ...