CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The winner of the Masters gets a fine new piece of apparel. The winner of the Open Championship gets a jug suitable for everything from fine wine to barbecue sauce. The winner of the PGA Championship? Well, he’ll get a trophy large enough to ice down an entire case of beer.
Behold the Wanamaker Trophy, the largest of the four major trophies, a beast of an award. “It looks heavy. It's big,” Rory McIlroy, who’s won two of them, said earlier this week. “I didn't know how heavy it was, but it's pretty meaty.