Golf Network News
Sunday 22 July 1962Men’s majorsYear in Review
Player wins PGA Championship
Aronimink Golf Club, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania · Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 July 1962 · purse $69,400 · winner's share $13,000
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 24 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R129°/16°C · wind 11 km/h WNW, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R231°/17°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R331°/21°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 45 · 6.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/19°C · wind 10 km/h W, gusts 32 · 12.2 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.
170 started, 91 (cut at 151) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
PGA Championship
Aronimink Golf Club, Newtown Square
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bob Goalby
The golfer
b. 1935-11-01, Johannesburg, South Africa; South Africa; age 26 at the win (year page); 3rd 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