1959 PGA Championship

100 after 1st cut 64 after 2nd cut 221 (+11) (2nd cut) The 1959 PGA Championship was the 41st PGA Championship played from July 30 to August 2 at Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb west of Minneapolis.

Six strokes back at the start of the final round, Bob Rosburg shot a 66 (−4) to win his only major championship at 277 (−3), one stroke ahead of runners-up Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1959/08/10/609939/drama-at-minneapolis-in-wind-and-rain http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1070878/index.htm-- |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Brown |first=Gwilym |title=Drama at Minneapolis in wind and rain |date=August 10, 1959 |page=42}} Rosburg had managed only five birdies in the first three rounds, but had five in the first nine on Sunday to go out in 30, then a record. Barber won the title two years later, in a Monday playoff in 1961. Tied for fourteenth at 286 (+6) was Arnold Palmer.

This was the second year of stroke play at the PGA Championship, a match play event through 1957. Daily admission was three dollars on Thursday and Friday, and five dollars per day on the weekend. The winner's share was increased fifty per cent to $8,250; two years earlier, it was $8,000 for the final match play competition.

The Open Championship was played several weeks earlier in Scotland at Muirfield; only four Americans (two amateurs) were in the field and none made the cut.