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.
1979 PGA Championship match play. It was the sixth major championship held on the South Course, which previously hosted the PGA Championship in 1972 and the U.S. Open in 1924, 1937, 1951, and 1961. It later hosted the U.S. Open in 1985 and 1996, the PGA Championship in 2008, and the Ryder Cup in 2004. This was the third consecutive playoff at the PGA Championship (and nearly the fourth, as the 1976 title was decided by the final putt on the 72nd green). Graham became the second Australian-born player to win the PGA Championship, preceded by Jim Ferrier in 1947. Jerry Pate and