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Sunday 22 November 1936Men’s majorsYear in Review

Shute wins PGA Championship

Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina · Monday 16 to Sunday 22 November 1936 · purse $9,200 · 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

9 h 56 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 34° up at noon, and that night a waxing 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

Pinehurst Resort (No. 2), Pinehurst

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Denny Shute

3 & 2 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Jimmy Thomson

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1904-10-25, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)

Denny Shute’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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