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Saturday 20 September 1919Men’s majorsYear in Review

Barnes wins PGA Championship

Engineers Country Club, Roslyn Harbor, New York · Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 September 1919 · purse $2,580 · winner's share $500

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

12 h 01 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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  4. R4Not yet researched

The name over time

  1. PGA Championship

1916–2026 in our record, 108 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Men's major

PGA Championship

Engineers Country Club, Roslyn Harbor

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Jim Barnes

6 & 5 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Fred McLeod

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1886-04-08, Lelant, Cornwall, England; England (US-based); age 33 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)

Jim Barnes’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

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