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
1944 PGA Championship Open in 1946, all held in Spokane. The PGA Championship was the sole major played in 1944 (and 1945); the three others returned in 1946. This was the first major championship played in the Pacific Northwest. The PGA Championship was played in Portland in 1946, and at Sahalee, east of Seattle, in 1998. The first U.S. Open in the region was played in 2015 at Chambers Bay, southwest of Tacoma. The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1944 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days: "Sunday, August 20, 1944" "Morning" "Afternoon" 1944 PGA Championship The 1944