1975 PGA Championship 1975 PGA Championship The 1975 PGA Championship was the 57th PGA Championship, played August 7–10 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Jack Nicklaus, an Ohio native, won the fourth of his five PGA Championships and the fourteenth of his eighteen major titles, two strokes ahead of runner-up Bruce Crampton. Nicklaus was the 54-hole leader, four strokes ahead of Crampton. It was the second major of the year for Nicklaus, who won his fifth green jacket in April at the Masters, and the fourth of five times that he won two majors in the same calendar
1945 PGA Championship consecutive wins in 1945. Defending champion Bob Hamilton was defeated in the first round by Jack Grout, 4 & 3. Due to World War II, the PGA Championship was the sole major played in 1945 (and 1944). The three others returned in 1946. The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1945 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days: "Sunday, July 15, 1945" "Morning" "Afternoon" 1945 PGA Championship The 1945 PGA Championship was the 27th PGA Championship, held July 9–15 at Moraine Country Club in Kettering, Ohio, a suburb south of Dayton. Then a match play championship,