1960 PGA Championship


The 1960 PGA Championship was the 42nd PGA Championship, played July 21–24 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Jay Hebert won his only major championship, one stroke ahead of runner-up Jim Ferrier, the 1947 Only one player broke par in the final round; Wes Ellis shot 69 and finished in sixth place. Hebert's younger brother Lionel won the title in 1957, the last PGA Championship contested in match play format.
Third round leader Doug Sanders shot 73 on Sunday and finished two strokes back in a tie for third. Arnold Palmer, reigning champion of the Masters and U.S. Open, carded a triple-bogey eight on the 16th hole on Saturday, and finished five strokes back.
Palmer was attempting to win a third major in 1960; in addition to his wins at the Masters and U.S. Open, he was runner-up by a stroke at the British Open at St Andrews. At Firestone, Palmer opened with a 67 for the first round but fell off the pace late on Saturday and tied for seventh; he won seven majors but never a PGA Championship. Through 2017, no player has won all three U.S. majors in the same calendar year.
Two-time champion Ben Hogan played in the PGA Championship for the first time since his match play victory in 1948. A third round left him at and he missed the 54-hole cut by one stroke.
Attendance figures were 14,141 for Sunday's final round, with a four-day total of 53,509.
This was the first of three PGA Championships at the South Course, which later hosted in 1966 and 1975. It is the current venue for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which began in 1976 as the World Series of Golf on the PGA Tour. The American Golf Classic was held at Firestone 's south course from 1961 to 1975.

Course layout

South Course
Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards4005004504652304502254504653,6354053651804604102306253904653,5307,165
Par454434344354434435443570

Past champions in the field

Made both cuts

Missed the second cut

Missed the first cut

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 21, 1960
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Arnold Palmer67−3
2Sam Snead68−2
T3Fred Haas69−1
T3Paul Harney69−1
T5Don Fairfield70E
T5Don January70E
T5Doug Sanders70E
T8George Bayer71+1
T8Al Besselink71+1
T8Bill Collins71+1
T8Jim Ferree71+1
T8Jim Ferrier
71+1
T8Ed Griffiths71+1
T8Bob Harris71+1
T8John O'Donnell71+1
T8Ernie Vossler71+1
T8Don Whitt71+1

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Second round

Friday, July 22, 1960
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Jay Hebert72-67=139−1
2Don January70-70=140E
T3Arnold Palmer67-74=141+1
T3Doug Sanders70-71=141+1
T3Sam Snead68-73=141+1
T6Fred Hawkins73-69=142+2
T6John O'Donnell71-71=142+2
T6Ken Venturi70-72=142+2
9Mason Rudolph72-71=143+3
T10George Bayer71-73=144+4
T10Tommy Bolt72-72=144+4
T10Wes Ellis 72-72=144+4
T10Ted Kroll73-71=144+4
T10Gene Littler74-70=144+4

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Third round

Saturday, July 23, 1960
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Doug Sanders70-71-69=210E
T3Jim Ferrier
71-74-66=211+1
T3Jay Hebert72-67-72=211+1
T3Sam Snead68-73-70=211+1
5Don January70-70-72=212+2
T6Doug Ford75-70-69=214+4
T6Fred Hawkins73-69-72=214+4
T8Dow Finsterwald73-73-69=215+5
T8Dave Marr75-71-69=215+5
T8Ken Venturi70-72-73=215+5

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Final round

Sunday, July 24, 1960
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Jay Hebert72-67-72-70=281+111,000
2Jim Ferrier
71-74-66-71=282+25,500
T3Doug Sanders70-71-69-73=283+33,350
T3Sam Snead68-73-70-72=283+33,350
5Don January70-70-72-72=284+42,800
6Wes Ellis72-72-72-69=285+52,500
T7Doug Ford75-70-69-72=286+62,125
T7Arnold Palmer67-74-75-70=286+62,125
9Ken Venturi70-72-73-72=287+71,900
T10Fred Hawkins73-69-72-74=288+81,750
T10Dave Marr75-71-69-73=288+81,750