The Golf Club at Dove Mountain The Golf Club at Dove Mountain The Golf Club at Dove Mountain is a golf course in the southwestern United States, located in Marana, Arizona, northwest of Tucson. For six years it hosted the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, a match play tournament on the PGA Tour and the European Tour in late February. The club was known as Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, carrying co-branding from Ritz-Carlton, which operates the hotel facilities at the club, from its opening until 2012; however the co-branding was removed before the 2013 event for unknown reasons. Designed by Jack Nicklaus, the course holds the distinction for
1936 PGA Championship It hosted the Ryder Cup in 1951 and the U.S. Women's Open was also here in 2014. The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1936 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days: "Sunday, November 22, 1936" "Morning" "Afternoon" 1936 PGA Championship The 1936 PGA Championship was the 19th PGA Championship, held November 16–22 at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Then a match play championship, Denny Shute won the first of his consecutive PGA Championships, defeating Jimmy Thomson 3 & 2 on the No. 2 Course. It was Shute's second major title; his first was at