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
1942 PGA Championship play qualifier at 138 (–6), but lost to Nelson in the quarterfinals on the third extra hole. The golf course, now known as the Bay Course of the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club, was designed in 1914 by Donald Ross. It hosts an annual event on the LPGA Tour, the ShopRite LPGA Classic. The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1942 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days: <br> "Sunday, May 31, 1942" "Morning" "Afternoon" 1942 PGA Championship The 1942 PGA Championship was the 25th PGA Championship, held May 25–31 at Seaview Country Club in