Golf tournament held in 1967
Golf tournament
The
1967 PGA Championship
was the 49th
PGA Championship
, played July 20?24 at
Columbine Country Club
in
Columbine Valley, Colorado
, a suburb south of
Denver
.
Don January
won his only
major
title in an 18-hole playoff over
Don Massengale
(69-71).
[3]
Both had overtaken the leaders with low scores in the fourth round on Sunday.
Columbine was scheduled to host the championship in
1966
, but flooding of the course by the
South Platte River
caused a postponement of a year.
Firestone Country Club
in
Ohio
, scheduled to host in 1967, swapped years with Columbine and was the site of the tournament in
1966
.
[4]
There was a possibility of a boycott of the championship by the top tournament players, due to grievances with the
PGA of America
. An understanding was achieved several weeks before and the top players entered.
[5]
At the time, Columbine was the longest course in major championship history at 7,436 yards (6,799 m). The
elevation
of the course is over 5,300 feet (1,620 m)
above sea level
, additionally dry and fast conditions shortened its effective length.
Tommy Aaron
carded a course record 65 in the second round to take a four-stroke lead,
[6]
but a 76 on Saturday dropped him two back and he fell out of contention on Sunday with a 78. The 54-hole leader was
Dan Sikes
, the chairman of the tournament players committee,
[7]
who shot a final round 73 and finished a stroke out of the playoff, in a tie for third with
Jack Nicklaus
.
[1]
This was the second and final 18-hole Monday playoff at the PGA Championship, formerly a
match play
event through
1957
. The next playoff was ten years later in
1977
and the format was changed to sudden-death, immediately following the fourth round. It was later changed to a three-hole aggregate format, first used in
2000
.
The
Open Championship
was played the previous week near
Liverpool
,
England
, one of five times in the 1960s that these two majors were played in consecutive weeks in July. The PGA Championship moved permanently to August in
1969
, where it remained through
2018
(except
1971
, when it was played in late February). In
2019
, the tournament moved to the weekend before
Memorial Day
.
Round summaries
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First round
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Thursday, July 20, 1967
Second round
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Friday, July 21, 1967
Source:
[6]
Third round
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Saturday, July 22, 1967
Source:
[7]
Final round
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Sunday, July 23, 1967
Source:
[1]
Playoff
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Monday, July 24, 1967
Scorecard
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Hole
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
Par
|
4
|
5
|
3
|
4
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
5
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
4
|
January
|
E
|
E
|
E
|
+1
|
+1
|
+1
|
+1
|
E
|
E
|
?1
|
?1
|
?2
|
?2
|
?3
|
?4
|
?4
|
?3
|
?3
|
Massengale
|
E
|
E
|
E
|
E
|
?1
|
?1
|
E
|
E
|
E
|
E
|
E
|
?1
|
?1
|
?2
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?2
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?2
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?1
|
?1
|
Source:
[8]
References
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- ^
a
b
c
"Texans Massengale, January tie in down-to-wire PGA final round"
.
Spokesman-Review
. Associated Press. July 24, 1967. p. 10.
- ^
"Tournament Info for: 1967 PGA Championship"
. PGA of America. Archived from
the original
on August 1, 2012
. Retrieved
July 14,
2012
.
- ^
"January breaks playoff jinx to win PGA by two strokes"
.
Spokesman-Review
. Associated Press. July 25, 1967.
- ^
Wright, Alfred (July 31, 1967).
"Two Dons In Quest Of A Title"
.
Sports Illustrated
. p. 18
. Retrieved
January 2,
2013
.
- ^
"Pro golfers settle odds with PGA"
.
Eugene Register-Guard
. Associated Press. July 6, 1967. p. 1C.
- ^
a
b
"Aaron erases course record"
.
Eugene Register-Guard
. Associated Press. July 22, 1967. p. 1B.
- ^
a
b
"PGA rebel grabs lead"
.
Eugene Register-Guard
. Associated Press. July 23, 1967. p. 1B.
- ^
"January Beats Massengale in PGA Playoff"
.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
. Associated Press. July 25, 1967. p. 16
. Retrieved
January 2,
2013
.
External links
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