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Saturday 6 October 1928Men’s majorsYear in Review

Diegel wins PGA Championship

Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Maryland · Monday 1 to Saturday 6 October 1928 · purse $10,400

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

The weather

11 h 17 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

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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

Baltimore Country Club (Five Farms East), Lutherville

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Leo Diegel

6 & 5 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Al Espinosa

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1899-04-20, Gratiot Township, Michigan, USA; United States; age 29 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Leo Diegel’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet