There's a new Champ in town

Another year, another major golf tournament. This morning the 2005 PGA Championship was relaunched with an updated look, which builds upon the template design and art direction of 2004 site, but (as we designers like to say) with a little more volume.

The biggest change is the color -- a stronger palette of contrasting colors was chosen, with heavy emphasis on the yellow/gold of the tournament logo, plus a deepening of the warm-grays to balance it out. The course tour on the home page has been moved to a pop-up window, and replaced with a timeline Flash movie that updates many times throughout the day. Other than that, it's essentially the same site, but it looks dramatically different with just a few visual tweaks.

Nothing but Tiger, Phil, Vijay and all the rest until Sunday. Should be an interesting week.