Harold McSpaden
Summary
- Best major finish runner-up, 1937 PGA Championship
Near misses
- 1937 PGA Championship Pittsburgh Field Club · runner-up to Denny Shute · lost the final won on 37th hole
Rivals
Beat him
Next in the chain: Denny Shute's rivals →
Results by championship
Best day
1937 PGA Championship
Runner-up to Denny Shute.
Chosen by rule: the most recent of the best major finishes. Year page: 1937.
Career line, 1937–1937
1 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Runner-up
Harold McSpaden was born in 1908 in Monticello, KS. McSpaden's best major finish was second, at the 1937 PGA Championship.
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The record
Near misses
- 1937 PGA Championship Pittsburgh Field Club · runner-up to Denny Shute · lost the final won on 37th hole
PGA Championship match play
Every recorded match in our bracket file, 1916–1957: 22 won, 11 lost, including 0 of 1 finals.
- 1936 Round of 64 beat Joe Belfore 6 & 4
- 1936 Round of 32 beat Johnny Revolta won on 19th hole
- 1936 Round of 16 beat Leo Walper 4 & 3
- 1936 Quarterfinal lost to Jimmy Thomson 1 up
- 1937 Round of 64 beat Clarence Clark 3 & 2
- 1937 Round of 32 beat Bunny Torpey won on 20th hole
- 1937 Round of 16 beat Sam Snead 2 up
- 1937 Quarterfinal beat Henry Picard won on 39th hole
- 1937 Semifinal beat Ky Laffoon 2 up
- 1937 Final lost to Denny Shute won on 37th hole
- 1938 Round of 64 beat Sam Parks Jr. 3 & 2
- 1938 Round of 32 lost to Ray Mangrum won on 20th hole
- 1939 Round of 64 lost to Ken Tucker 1 up
- 1940 Round of 64 beat Stan Parzick 3 & 2
- 1940 Round of 32 beat Herman Keiser 2 & 1
- 1940 Round of 16 beat Walter Hagen 1 up
- 1940 Quarterfinal beat Paul Runyan 8 & 6
- 1940 Semifinal lost to Sam Snead 5 & 4
- 1941 Round of 64 beat Jimmy Thomson won on 21st hole
- 1941 Round of 32 beat George Schneiter 3 & 2
- 1941 Round of 16 lost to Jimmy Hines 6 & 4
- 1942 Round of 32 beat Sam Parks Jr. 7 & 5
- 1942 Round of 16 lost to Jim Turnesa 1 up
- 1944 Round of 32 beat Bruce Coltart 7 & 5
- 1944 Round of 16 beat Fred Annon 8 & 7
- 1944 Quarterfinal lost to Bob Hamilton 2 & 1
- 1945 Round of 32 lost to Clarence Doser 5 & 4
- 1946 Round of 64 beat Claude Harmon 4 & 3
- 1946 Round of 32 beat Bob Hamilton 4 & 3
- 1946 Round of 16 beat Dutch Harrison 4 & 3
- 1946 Quarterfinal beat Chuck Congdon 5 & 3
- 1946 Semifinal lost to Ed Oliver 6 & 5
- 1947 Round of 64 lost to Lloyd Mangrum 2 up
Profile
Researched for this card in October 2026; each line names the page it comes from.
Full name
- Harold Lee "Jug" McSpaden Wikipedia
Other names
- Jug McSpaden Wikipedia
Status
- professional, turned professional in 1926 Wikipedia
Died in
- Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. Wikipedia
Hall of Fame
- Kansas Golf Hall of Fame (1991) Wikipedia
Beyond our rooms
- 1931 Oklahoma Open winner
- 1934 Oklahoma Open winner
- 1934 Iowa Open winner
- 1938 Massachusetts Open winner
- 1938 New England PGA Championship winner
- 1939 New England PGA Championship winner
- 1940 Philippine Open winner
- 1941 Massachusetts Open winner
- 1941 New England PGA Championship winner
- 1942 Miami Open winner
Source: Wikipedia: Jug McSpaden
Known for
- Harold Lee "Jug" McSpaden (July 21, 1908 – April 22, 1996) was an American professional golfer, and golf course architect. Wikipedia
Sources
Elsewhere: Wikipedia · Wikidata.
Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.