Texans have won the PGA Championship more than times that PGA Championship has been played in Texas.
Ten golfers having associations with the Lone Star State have won this major tournament. Count Bobby Nichols (1964) who golfed in college at Texas A&M it is 11.
PGA Championship- The next instalment of the PGA championship will be held between May 16 and 19 at the Valhalla Club located in Louisville. It is at that place where Mark Brooks of Fort Worth won the title in 1996.
Texas has hosted the PGA championship thrice. In 1968 and 1963 Jan Kotat and Jack Nicklaus won the event at the Pecan Valley GC in San Antonio and the Dallas Athletic Council Blue Course respectively. In 1927, Cedar Crest in Dallas belonged to Walter Hagen. In 2027, the PGA Championship comes back to the Lone Star State in PGA Frisco.
One of the golfers to look forward to in the PGA Championship 2024 betting is Will Zalatoris of Plano, who will be back after most of the previous season, when his back procedure sidelined him. He is at +3000. The favorite in the PGA Tour Masters is golf champion Scottie Scheffler at +400 at the second major piece of the year.
Rich Beem(2002)
Beem is a native of Phoenix, who resides in Austin. At the 2002 PGA Championship played at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in the Minneapolis suburbs, Beem defeated the greatness which is Tiger Woods by a single stroke to claim his first major tournament in his career at the tender age of 32.
Woods birdied the last four holes to take pressure onto Beem. However, as Beem would gave a birdie in the 16th hole, he would take a two-shot lead. He parred the 17th. Hitting the green in regulation on the par four 18 th hole, the big hitter Beem three-putted casually and won by a single stroke.
Mark Brooks (1996)
Brooks is a native of the city and born in Fort Worth. He played three-time All-American at Texas in 1983 before going pro. He also has the highest number of career PGA Tour starts 803.
His seven PGA Tour wins included the sole master of his big tournament in the 1996 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville. Brooks defeated Kenny Perry in birdie on hole 1 of the playoff.
John Mahaffey, 1978 (John Mahaffey, 1978)
Mahaffey graduated with a Philosophy degree at the University of Houston. He was born in Kerrville and currently lives in The Woodlands.
Having lost a play-off at the U.S. Open in 1975, and leading by two shots going into the final round in 1976, only to fade on the back nine and be beaten by a fading Tom Watson, Mahaffey eventually scored his first major victory in the PGA championship in 1978 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
By doing that, Mahaffey authored the best comeback story in the history of the majors in golf. There were 14 holes remaining when Mahaffey was seven shots behind the leader, Tom Watson. He posted the final-round of six-under par 66 to earn the spot in the three-play off alongside, Watson, Jerry Pate. The first hole of the playoff would be parred by all the three players. On the 2nd hole Mahaffey made a 12-foot birdie putt to win his first major.
Lanny Wadkins (1977)
Wadkins, a citizen of Dallas, acquired 21 PGA Tour surpasses in his vocation, scoring the 1977 PGA tourney. In 1982, 1984 and 1987, he has come second in the tournament. Wadkins had been voted the PGA tour player of the year in 1985.
In March, at the 1977 PGA Championship, at Pebble Beach, Wadkins defeated old hand Gene Littler in the playoff to win the tournament. It was the playoff round in any stroke-play major ever. The last major tournament to use a playoff format was match play PGA Championship of 1941.
Lee Trevino (1974, 1984)
Probably the most colorful golfer to ever emerge in Lone Star State, Trevino was born in Garland. As a boy, he caddied in Dallas Athletic Club and as a young man he became a club pro in El Paso.
Trevino was a two time champion in PGA Championship. His inaugural title was in the year 1974 at Tanglewood park of North Carolina. He would complete a step in front of Jack Nicklaus. Losing to Trevino in the fourth encounter of a major: Nicklaus became a runner-up. Trevino used a putter found in an attic of a friend of his only days before with which he won the tournament. It was a single three-putt and that was in the 71st hole.
In 1984 Trevino would win his sixth, and last, major at the PGA Championship in Shoal Creek, Birmingham, Alabama, in his forties (44 years of age). Halfway into the event, Trevino shared the lead with Wadkins and Gary Player. He held a one shot lead going into the final round. Completing the last 18 holes with a shooting score of 69, Trevino recorded a total score of 15-under making him the lowest player in the history of a PGA championship.
Don January (1967)
January, born in Planview, played in the North Texas State golf team that captured four straight NCAA championships, 1949-52. He studied in Sunset High School of Dallas and he has his name recorded in the hall of fame of that school.
In 1967, January won the 18 holes playoff against Don Massengale to win the PGA championship. January defeated him two shots with 69. The event was hosted at Columbine country club in Colorado.
In 1962, January went down by a single stroke to Jerry Barber in an 18 hole-playoff to lose the PGA Championship, even though she had shot an 68. It is the lowest losing marks in a 18- hole playoff in major event.
Dave Marr (1965)
Marr was born and grew up in Houston, where he studied in Rice-University and Houston-University. He became professional in the year 1953 when he was 19 years of age.
He attained the victory at the Laurel Valley Golf Club of Pennsylvania in the PGA championship of 1965. He defeated golfing legends; Jack Nicklaus and Billy Casper to win the tournament two shots. Shortly after his victory Marr finally had a son named Tony who was born to him a few hours after his win.
Jack Burke Jr. (1956)
Jack Sr. who worked at River Oaks Country Club of Houston as the head pro was the father of Burke, Fort Worth. During his time in Rice, Burke also became an amateur who qualified to attend the 1941 United States Open in Texas.
In 1956 he won the PGA Championship at Blue Hill in Massachusetts in match-play format. Burke won 3&2 in the final against Ted Kroll in the final. He was the winner of the Masters of the same year.
Ben Hogan (1946, 1948)
Ben Hogan (public domain, libr. of congress).
Surely, the biggest golfer ever to be born in Texas, Stephenvilles Hogan won 64 PGA tour titles which propelled him to the number four ranks in the all time list. These are nine majors. Hogan emerged first in at least one of the four major events dawning a couple of PGA Championship crowns.
He won his initial title in the year 1946 at the Portland Golf Club. Hogan defeated Ed Oliver 6&4. In 1951 at Northwood Hills, St. Louis, Hogan beat Mike Turnesa 7&6.
Byron Nelson (1940, 1945)
Waxahachie Nelson ranks sixth all time with 52 victories in the PGA tour. He would also have his two PGA Championship victories in 1940 and 1945 along with all the four major titles each once.
In Hershey, Pennsylvania back in 1950, Nelson upset Sam Snead by one stroke. In another five years he came out tops over Sam Byrd one up at Moraine CC in Dayton, Ohio.