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Saturday 13 September 1930Men’s majorsYear in Review

Armour wins PGA Championship

Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flushing, Queens, New York · Monday 8 to Saturday 13 September 1930 · purse $10,300 · winner's share $1,000

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 21 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous 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

Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flushing

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Tommy Armour

1 up (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Gene Sarazen

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1895-09-24, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland / USA; age 34 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)

Tommy Armour’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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