Golf Network News
Tuesday 27 June 1950Men’s majorsYear in Review
Harper wins PGA Championship
Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio · Wednesday 21 to Tuesday 27 June 1950 · purse $17,700 · winner's share $3,500
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 50 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 73° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/17°C · wind 13 km/h NW, gusts 30 · 4.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/17°C · wind 17 km/h SSE, gusts 35 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R332°/20°C · wind 21 km/h SSW, gusts 39 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/22°C · wind 19 km/h WSW, gusts 42 · 23.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R530°/21°C · wind 9 km/h WNW, gusts 21 · 3.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R632°/18°C · wind 18 km/h WSW, gusts 37 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R724°/13°C · wind 22 km/h NW, gusts 43 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
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
Scioto Country Club, Columbus
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Henry Williams Jr.
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1914-03-10, Portsmouth, Virginia; United States; age 36 at the win (year page); 1st 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