Golf Network News
Tuesday 26 July 1955Men’s majorsYear in Review
Ford wins PGA Championship
Meadowbrook Country Club, Northville Township, Michigan · Wednesday 20 to Tuesday 26 July 1955 · purse $20,700 · winner's share $5,000
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 30 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R132°/19°C · wind 7 km/h SSW, gusts 17 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R233°/18°C · wind 8 km/h SW, gusts 14 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R333°/20°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/22°C · wind 18 km/h W, gusts 44 · 10.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R526°/17°C · wind 14 km/h NNE, gusts 31 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R629°/12°C · wind 11 km/h SW, gusts 21 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R734°/19°C · wind 12 km/h SW, gusts 29 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre 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
Meadowbrook Country Club, Northville Township
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Cary Middlecoff
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1922-08-06, West Haven, Connecticut, USA; United States; age 32 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