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Sunday 30 May 1937Men’s majorsYear in Review

Shute wins PGA Championship

Pittsburgh Field Club, Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania · Monday 24 to Sunday 30 May 1937 · 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

14 h 39 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° 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

Men's major

PGA Championship

Pittsburgh Field Club, Fox Chapel

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Denny Shute

won on 37th hole (36-hole final)Total

Runner-up: Harold "Jug" McSpaden

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); 3rd 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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