Golf Network News
Monday 31 July 1961Men’s majorsYear in Review
Barber wins PGA Championship
Olympia Fields Country Club, Olympia Fields, Illinois · Thursday 27 to Monday 31 July 1961 · purse $64,800 · winner's share $11,000
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 15 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R130°/18°C · wind 11 km/h SSE, gusts 27 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/21°C · wind 11 km/h SW, gusts 30 · 13.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R331°/20°C · wind 8 km/h S, gusts 16 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R433°/22°C · wind 15 km/h SW, gusts 40 · 6.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R529°/23°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 34 · 2.8 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.
161 started, 65 (cut at 148) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
PGA Championship
Olympia Fields Country Club, Olympia Fields
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Don January
The golfer
b. 1916-04-25, Woodson, Illinois; United States; age 45 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