Golf Network News
Sunday 6 August 1972Men’s majorsYear in Review
Player wins PGA Championship
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan · Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 August 1972 · purse $224,087 · winner's share $45,000
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 04 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 64° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R125°/14°C · wind 21 km/h NNW, gusts 45 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/10°C · wind 21 km/h NE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/9°C · wind 11 km/h S, gusts 19 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R421°/14°C · wind 15 km/h S, gusts 34 · 6.6 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.
138 started, 79 (cut at 150) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
PGA Championship
Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course), Bloomfield Township
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Tommy Aaron, Jim Jamieson
The golfer
b. 1935-11-01, Johannesburg, South Africa; South Africa; age 36 at the win (year page); 6th 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