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PGA Championship History

The PGA Championship is the annual professional champion hosted by the American Association of Professional Golfers. Although long known as the last “professional” of the season in 2019, the PGA Championship has advanced to May.

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The American PGA has its own championship and does have a PGA, which is in line with the fact that professionals have been second-class citizens of golf throughout most of the history recorded in the game. After all, clubs and teaching professionals are servants to wealthy amateurs. At the open golf tournament, gentlemen amateurs were introduced as gentlemen, while their professional peers had no honors. In courses where competitions are held, professionals are not even allowed to enter the club. Their status is the same as other “help” status and has no ratings. In fact, it was not until the 1920 US Open at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio that professionals were allowed to enter the club.

In the United States, the founding of the American Golf Association in 1895 led to the establishment of two national champions to match the R&A Open Championship (1860) and the British Amateurs (1885). The U.S. Open welcomes professionals in the competition, but USGA is primarily a group focused on amateurs (whether the debate is still the case. The fact about the organization’s seekers, the organization calls itself “for the benefit of the game” and just needs to follow that money).

Of course, a group of club professionals led by Walter Hagen met with department store owner Rodman Wanamaker at Wykagul Country Club in January 1916 at New York. A month later, the conference led to the establishment of the Professional Golfers Association. Later that year, the first professional golfers association champion was held at Siwanoy Country Club in New York. Jim Barnes won $500 and won the Diamond Nail Gold Medal donated by Wanamaker.

The current trophy to win the PGA is named after Rodman Wanamaker.

From its founding to 1958, the PGA Championship followed the format of the competition. This gave the PGA champion a unique flavor, but ultimately made the TV producer unpopular, as the format could lead to Marquee Players being kicked out by the weekend. (According to the author’s estimates, the change is an error that should be corrected).

It is also difficult for PGA champions to find a place on the calendar. Before the 1960s, it was often performed a week after the British Open in late July. In 1971, it was held in Florida in February. In 2019, the PGA champion will be promoted to May.

It is also worth noting that the PGA Championship is not a product of the PGA Tour. The PGA Tour separated from the US PGA in 1968 and established an association focusing on the needs of travel professionals. PGAs in the United States remain focused on “clubs” and teaching professionals. In fact, the PGA Tour does not manage any “professional” of golf.

The PGA in the United States also organized the Senior PGA Championship and the PGA European Tour Ryder Cup.

Walter Hagen (1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927) and Jack Nicklaus (1963, 1971, 1973, 1973, 1975, 1980) respectively held the record with five PGA title wins. However, they play in different situations. Hagen won all the wins in the format of the game, while Nicklaus won the medal or medal.

Other records:

• Oldest winner: Phil Mickelson (50 years, 11 months)
• Youngest winner: Gene Sarazen of 1922 (20 years, 174 days)
• The biggest win in the game era: Paul Runyan defeated Sam Snead 8 and 7 in 1938
• The biggest win in the Stroke Game Era: 8 out of 8, Rory McIlroy in 2012
• Lowest Absolute 72 Holes Score: 263, Xander Schauffele
• Minimum 72-hole score with PAR: -21 Xander Schafuffele, 2024
• Lowest 18 hole score: 62 (Xander Schauffele, Rd. 1, 2024 Valhalla; Shane Lowry, Rd. 3, 2024 Valhalla)

PGA Championship History Posted on the Golfblogger Golf Blog for the first time on May 18, 2021

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