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Saturday 19 September 1931Men’s majorsYear in Review

Creavy wins PGA Championship

Wannamoisett Country Club, Rumford, Rhode Island · Monday 14 to Saturday 19 September 1931 · purse $7,200 · 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 04 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a first-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

Wannamoisett Country Club, Rumford

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Tom Creavy

2 & 1 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Denny Shute

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1911-02-03, Tuckahoe, New York; United States; age 20 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Tom Creavy’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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