1966 PGA Championship

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Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Location map". Script error: No such module "Location map". The 1966 PGA Championship was the 48th PGA Championship, played July 21–24 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Al Geiberger won his only major championship, four strokes ahead of runner-up Dudley Wysong.[1][2]

Sam Snead, age 54, was co-leader and leader after the first two days, but shot 75 in the third round on Saturday. Geiberger carded a two-under 68 to lead by four strokes over Wysong, who shot a 66.[3] Both shot two-over 72 on Sunday as both bogeyed the first two holes. The lead shrank to two as Wysong birdied the third while Geiberger bogeyed the fourth, but then birdied the fifth and ninth holes to regain the four-stroke advantage.[4]

The 1966 championship was originally scheduled to be held at Columbine Country Club in Columbine Valley, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver. A flash flood of the adjacent South Platte River in June 1965 caused significant damage to the course and forced a postponement. Firestone was scheduled to host in 1967, so the venues swapped years.[5]

This was the second of three PGA Championships at the South Course, which previously hosted in 1960 and later in 1975. It is the current venue for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which began in 1976 as the "World Series of Golf" on the PGA Tour, preceded by the American Golf Classic, which debuted in 1961.

Course layout

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 400 500 450 465 230 465 225 450 465 3,650 405 365 180 460 410 230 625 390 465 3,530 7,180
Par 4 5 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 35 4 4 3 4 4 3 5 4 4 35 70

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 21, 1966

Place Player Score To par
T1 Template:Flagicon Al Geiberger 68 −2
Template:Flagicon Sam Snead
T3 Template:Flagicon Julius Boros 69 −1
Template:Flagicon Don January
Template:Flagicon Doug Sanders
6 Template:Flagicon Jacky Cupit 70 E
T7 Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron 71 +1
Template:Flagicon Larry Beck
Template:Flagicon Jim Ferrier
Template:Flagicon Jack Fleck
Template:Flagicon Walker Inman

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Second round

Friday, July 22, 1966

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Sam Snead 68-71=139 −1
T2 Template:Flagicon Al Geiberger 68-72=140 E
Template:Flagicon Don January 69-71=140
4 Template:Flagicon Julius Boros 69-72=141 +1
T5 Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron 71-72=143 +3
Template:Flagicon Jacky Cupit 70-73=143
Template:Flagicon Billy Farrell 73-70=143
Template:Flagicon Gary Player 73-70=143
Template:Flagicon Doug Sanders 69-74=143
10 Template:Flagicon Dow Finsterwald 74-70=144 +4

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Third round

Saturday, July 23, 1966

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Al Geiberger 68-72-68=208 −2
2 Template:Flagicon Dudley Wysong 74-72-66=212 +2
T3 Template:Flagicon Don January 69-71-73=213 +3
Template:Flagicon Gary Player 73-70-70=213
T5 Template:Flagicon Frank Beard 73-72-69=214 +4
Template:Flagicon Billy Farrell 73-70-71=214
Template:Flagicon Sam Snead 68-71-75=214
T8 Template:Flagicon Julius Boros 69-72-75=216 +6
Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 73-73-70=216
Template:Flagicon Jacky Cupit 70-73-73=216

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Final round

Sunday, July 24, 1966

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Template:Flagicon Al Geiberger 68-72-68-72=280 E 25,000
2 Template:Flagicon Dudley Wysong 74-72-66-72=284 +4 15,000
T3 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 73-73-70-70=286 +6 8,334
Template:Flagicon Gene Littler 75-71-71-69=286
Template:Flagicon Gary Player 73-70-70-73=286
T6 Template:Flagicon Julius Boros 69-72-75-71=287 +7 5,000
Template:Flagicon Jacky Cupit 70-73-73-71=287
Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer 75-73-71-68=287
Template:Flagicon Doug Sanders 69-74-73-71=287
Template:Flagicon Sam Snead 68-71-75-73=287

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Lema and wife killed

Hours after the championship's conclusion on Sunday, Tony Lema and his wife Betty were among four fatalities in a chartered private plane crash near the Indiana-Illinois border. Lema, age 32, had finished tied for 34th and was heading west to a Monday tournament in the Chicago area. Both pilots of the twin-engine Beechcraft Bonanza were also killed as they attempted an emergency landing on a golf course in Lansing, Illinois, near the destination airport.[9][10][11][12]

References

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