Golf Network News
Monday 16 August 1976Men’s majorsYear in Review
Stockton wins PGA Championship
Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland · Thursday 12 to Monday 16 August 1976 · purse $250,950 · 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
13 h 27 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 64° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R132°/18°C · wind 13 km/h SSW, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R233°/20°C · wind 12 km/h SW, gusts 27 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R332°/21°C · wind 8 km/h W, gusts 28 · 11.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R430°/21°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 35 · 23.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R526°/17°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 34 · 0 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.
138 started, 76 (cut at 149) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
PGA Championship
Congressional Country Club (Blue Course), Bethesda
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Don January, Raymond Floyd
The golfer
b. 1941-11-02, San Bernardino, California, USA; United States; age 34 at the win (year page); 2nd 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