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Saturday 15 July 1939Men’s majorsYear in Review
Picard wins PGA Championship
Pomonok Country Club, Flushing, Queens, New York · Sunday 9 to Saturday 15 July 1939 · purse $10,600 · winner's share $1,100
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 crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
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- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
- 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
Pomonok Country Club, Flushing
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Byron Nelson
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1906-11-28, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet