Dates July 10–16, 1938 Organized by PGA of America Format Match play - 6 rounds | Course(s) Shawnee Country Club Tour(s) PGA Tour | |
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Location Smithfield Township,
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The 1938 PGA Championship was the 21st PGA Championship, held July 10–16 at Shawnee Country Club in Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania.
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Then a match play championship, Paul Runyan won his second PGA Championship, defeating the favored Sam Snead 8 & 7. Nicknamed "Little Poison," Runyan was one of the shorter hitters on tour, while Snead was one of the longest. Runyan was five holes up after the morning round, then needed just eleven holes to finish off Snead, the largest victory margin ever in the match play finals of the PGA Championship. He won the title four years earlier in 1934.
Two-time defending champion Denny Shute lost in the third round to semifinalist Jimmy Hines.
The course is on an island in the Delaware River, east of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Format
The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1938 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days:
Final results
Saturday, July 16, 1938
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