The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge playoff, in a five-way tie The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge is a private golf club in the northwest United States, located in Snoqualmie, Washington, east of Seattle, at the foothills of the Cascade Range. Designed by Jack Nicklaus, the championship golf course opened in 1999 and was formerly a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour. Since 2005, it has hosted the Boeing Classic, a 54-hole PGA Tour Champions event in late August. When the project was initially announced in 1986, the course was to be designed by Rees Jones.
1978 PGA Championship a pre-tournament favorite: in his previous majors at Oakmont (two U.S. Opens), he won in 1962, his first major and first win as a professional, and tied for fourth in the 1973. At the previous year's PGA Championship at Pebble Beach, he finished third, one stroke out of the playoff. This was the eighth major held at Oakmont and its third PGA Championship; the previous two in 1922 and 1951 were match play events. Lengths of the course for previous major championships: Before 1962, the 1st hole was played as a par 5. "Thursday, August 3, 1978" "Friday, August 4,