Dates | August 8–13, 1933 |
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Location | Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Course(s) | Blue Mound Country Club |
Organized by | PGA of America |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Format | Match play - 5 rounds |
Par | 70 |
Length | 6,270 yards (5,733 m) |
Field | 100 players, 32 to match play |
Cut | 146 (+6) |
Prize fund | $7,200 |
Winner's share | $1,000 |
Gene Sarazen | |
def. Willie Goggin, 5 & 4 | |
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The 1933 PGA Championship was the 16th PGA Championship, held August 8–13 at Blue Mound Country Club in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Then a match play championship, Gene Sarazen won the third of his three PGA Championship titles, defeating Willie Goggin 5 & 4. It was the sixth of his seven major titles.
Defending champion Olin Dutra lost in the second round to semifinalist Johnny Farrell, 1 up.
This was Wisconsin's first and only major for 71 years; the PGA Championship returned to the state in 2004 at Whistling Straits near Kohler.
The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1933 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in six days:
Sunday, August 13, 1933
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Coordinates: 43°04′05″N 88°02′28″W / 43.068°N 88.041°W