It was 75 years ago that Sam Snead became the first player to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year. It was five years ago that Brooks Koepka became only the third player to win back-to-back in the PGA Championship at stroke play.
FILE - Johnny Palmer, right, congratulates Sam Snead, who won the national PGA Championship, on the 34th hole at Hermitage Country Club in Richmond, Va., May 31, 1949. Snead was the first player to win the Masters and the PGA in the same year. FILE - Vijay SIngh holds up the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 86th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis., Sunday, Aug.15, 2004. Twenty years later, his final round of 76 remains the highest Sunday score of a PGA champion.
The AP story: “Every tournament I enter, I figure if I can beat Jack Nicklaus I’m gonna do pretty good, maybe win the championship,” Lee Trevino said. He did it again Sunday. This time it was a head-to-head confrontation with Nicklaus in the final round of the PGA Championship — the last of the year’s four major tests of golf.
The AP story: “The only birdie Vijay Singh made all day was the only one that mattered. Singh took advantage of a late collapse by Justin Leonard to get into a three-way playoff Sunday at Whistling Straits, then made the only birdie over the three extra holes to win the final major of the year.
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