Golf Network News
Sunday 8 August 1982Men’s majorsYear in Review
Floyd wins PGA Championship
Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma · Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 August 1982 · purse $450,000 · winner's share $65,000
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 36 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).
- R137°/25°C · wind 13 km/h S, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R235°/26°C · wind 12 km/h SW, gusts 23 · 4.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R330°/24°C · wind 8 km/h NE, gusts 23 · 28.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R432°/23°C · wind 14 km/h NNE, gusts 34 · 4.6 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.
150 started, 74 (cut at 145) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
PGA Championship
Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Lanny Wadkins
The golfer
b. 1942-09-04, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA; United States; age 39 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