1972 PGA Championship

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 1972 PGA Championship was the 54th PGA Championship, played August 3–6 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. Gary Player won his second PGA Championship with a total of 281 (+1), two strokes ahead of runners-up Tommy Aaron and Jim Jamieson. It was the sixth of Player's nine major titles, but his first in over four years.

The PGA Championship returned to the month of August in 1972 after being played in late February in 1971 in Florida.

Defending champion Jack Nicklaus, winner of the year's Masters and U.S. Open and runner-up in the British Open, finished six strokes back in a tie for thirteenth place. He regained the title the following year.

It was the fifth major championship held on the South Course, which previously hosted the U.S. Open in 1924, 1937, 1951, and 1961. It later hosted the PGA Championship in 1979 and 2008, the U.S. Open in 1985 and 1996, and the Ryder Cup in 2004.

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	446	521	202	439	442	368	408	458	227	3,511	459	420	567	173	468	388	408	201	459	3,543	7,054
Par	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	35	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	35	70

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 3, 1972

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Template:Flagicon Buddy Allin	68	−2
	Template:Flagicon Stan Thirsk
T3	Template:Flagicon Raymond Floyd	69	−1
	Template:Flagicon Larry Gilbert
	Template:Flagicon Jerry Heard
	Template:Flagicon Jim Jamieson
	Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer
T8	Template:Flagicon Richard Crawford	70	E
	Template:Flagicon Rod Funseth
	Template:Flagicon Johnny Miller
	Template:Flagicon Dan Sikes
	Template:Flagicon Sam Snead
	Template:Flagicon Jim Wiechers

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Second round

Friday, August 4, 1972

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Template:Flagicon Jerry Heard	69-70=139	−1
T2	Template:Flagicon Raymond Floyd	69-71=140	E
	Template:Flagicon Hale Irwin	71-69=140
T4	Template:Flagicon Gay Brewer	71-70=141	+1
	Template:Flagicon Jim Jamieson	69-72=141
	Template:Flagicon Bob Smith	69-72=141
T7	Template:Flagicon Gary Player	71-71=142	+2
	Template:Flagicon Dan Sikes	70-72=142
	Template:Flagicon Lanny Wadkins	74-68=142
T10	Template:Flagicon Billy Casper	73-70=143	+3
	Template:Flagicon Phil Rodgers	71-72=143
	Template:Flagicon Art Wall Jr.	72-71=143
	Template:Flagicon Jim Wiechers	70-73=143

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Third round

Saturday, August 5, 1972

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Template:Flagicon Gary Player	71-71-67=209	−1
2	Template:Flagicon Billy Casper	73-70-67=210	E
T3	Template:Flagicon Gay Brewer	71-70-70=211	+1
	Template:Flagicon Jerry Heard	69-70-72=211
	Template:Flagicon Phil Rodgers	71-72-68=211
T6	Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron	71-71-70=212	+2
	Template:Flagicon Doug Sanders	72-72-68=212
	Template:Flagicon Jim Wiechers	70-73-69=212
	Template:Flagicon Larry Wise	74-71-67=212
10	Template:Flagicon Jim Jamieson	69-72-72=213	+3

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Final round

Sunday, August 6, 1972

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Template:Flagicon Gary Player	71-71-67-72=281	+1	45,000
T2	Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron	71-71-70-71=283	+3	20,850
	Template:Flagicon Jim Jamieson	69-72-72-70=283
T4	Template:Flagicon Billy Casper	73-70-67-74=284	+4	9,275
	Template:Flagicon Raymond Floyd	69-71-74-70=284
	Template:Flagicon Sam Snead	70-74-71-69=284
T7	Template:Flagicon Gay Brewer	71-70-70-74=285	+5	6,383
	Template:Flagicon Jerry Heard	69-70-72-74=285
	Template:Flagicon Phil Rodgers	71-72-68-74=285
	Template:Flagicon Doug Sanders	72-72-68-73=285

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External links

• PGA Media Guide 2012
• PGA.com – 1972 PGA Championship