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The 1979 PGA Championship was the 61st PGA Championship, played August 2–5 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. After a double-bogey on the 72nd hole, David Graham won the first of his two major titles on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with Ben Crenshaw.
The 1979 PGA Tour was the 64th season of the PGA Tour, ... PGA Championship: Michigan: 350,000: David Graham (4) Major championship: Aug 12: Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater ...
Players are listed here in order of their first win. For much of the modern era the four major championships have been played chronologically in the order listed, but this has not always been the case, and starting in 2019 the PGA Championship was rescheduled as the second major of the year. In 2020, a year dramatica
a The PGA Championship was not held from 1917 to 1918 because of World War I. b The 1943 PGA Championship was not held because of World War II. c Par is a predetermined number of strokes that a golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the total pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the total pars of each ...
1979 PGA Championship; 1979 PGA of Japan Tour; 1979 PGA Tour; Fall 1979 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates; Spring 1979 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates; Fall 1978 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates; Spring 1978 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
Oakland Hills is full of history and epic champions. The restored South Course will be home to 8 USGA tournaments by 2051.
In the 1979 PGA Championship, at Oakland Hills, outside Detroit, Michigan, he stood on the last tee at 7 under par for his final round and leading by two, but double-bogeyed the last hole for a 65 to drop back into a playoff with Ben Crenshaw. At each of the first two sudden-death holes he holed long putts to keep the playoff alive and finally ...
The 1979 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 22–25 at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. The sixth Tournament Players Championship, it was the third at Sawgrass and Lanny Wadkins won in the wind at 283 (−5), five strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Watson.