1971 PGA Championship 1971 PGA Championship The 1971 PGA Championship was the 53rd PGA Championship, played February 25–28 at the original PGA National Golf Club, presently known as BallenIsles Country Club (East Course) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Jack Nicklaus won the second of his five PGA Championships, two strokes ahead of Billy Casper, the reigning Masters champion. Nicklaus led wire-to-wire, and held a four-stroke lead over Gary Player after 54 holes, with Casper seven shots back. The two were pre-tournament favorites, along with Arnold Palmer, who shot an opening round 75 and finished at 289 (+1), eight strokes back. Nicklaus became the
1938 PGA Championship 24th, which Runyan bogeyed. Runyan's victory four years earlier in 1934 took 38 holes to decide. Two-time defending champion Denny Shute lost in the third round to semifinalist Jimmy Hines. The course, now The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort, is on an island in the Delaware River, east of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1938 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days: "Saturday, July 16, 1938" "Morning" "Afternoon" 1938 PGA Championship The 1938 PGA Championship was the 21st PGA Championship, held July 10–16 at Shawnee Country Club in Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania.