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1975 PGA Championship

Field	Value
name	1975 PGA Championship
dates	August 7–10, 1975
location	Akron, Ohio
course	Firestone Country Club
South Course
org	PGA of America
tour	PGA Tour
par	70
yardage	7180 yd
field	136 players, 71 after cut
cut	148 (+8)
purse	$225,000
winners_share	$45,000
champion	USA Jack Nicklaus
score	276 (−4)
previous	[1974](1974-pga-championship)
next	[1976](1976-pga-championship)
map	USA#USA Ohio
map_relief	yes
map_label	Firestone Country Club
map_caption	Location in the United States##Location in Ohio
coordinates

South Course |USA |USA Ohio The 1975 PGA Championship was the 57th PGA Championship, played August 7–10 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Jack Nicklaus, an Ohio native, won the fourth of his five PGA Championships and the fourteenth of his eighteen major titles, two strokes ahead of runner-up Bruce Crampton. He was also the 54-hole leader, four strokes ahead of Crampton.

It was the second major of the year for Nicklaus, who won his fifth green jacket in April at the Masters, and the fourth of five times that he won two majors in the same calendar year.

Through 2021, this was the fourth and most recent time a player won the Masters and PGA Championship in the same calendar year. Nicklaus had previously won both in 1963, preceded by Jack Burke Jr. (1956) and Sam Snead (1949). Nicklaus also held both titles after a Masters win in 1972, and Tiger Woods held all four major titles after his Masters win in 2001.

This was the third PGA Championship at the South Course, which previously hosted in 1960 and 1966. It also a former venue for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which began in 1976 as the "World Series of Golf" on the PGA Tour, preceded by the American Golf Classic, which debuted in 1961.

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	400	500	450	465	230	465	225	450	465	3,650	405	365	180	460	410	230	625	390	465	3,530	7,180
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	35	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	35	70

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 7, 1975

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Mark Hayes	67	−3
T2	USA Bob Benson	68	−2
USA Larry Hinson
T4	USA Billy Casper	69	−1
USA Ed Dougherty
USA Fred Wampler
USA Bob Wynn
T8	USA Jim Dent	70	E
AUS Bruce Devlin
USA Raymond Floyd
USA Al Geiberger
USA Mike Morley
USA Jack Nicklaus
USA Art Wall Jr.
USA Tom Watson
USA Tom Weiskopf

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Second round

Friday, August 8, 1975

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Bruce Crampton	71-63=134	−6
2		USA Hale Irwin	72-65=137	−3
T3	USA Jack Nicklaus	70-68=138	−2
USA Mark Hayes	67-71=138
USA Bob Wynn	69-69=138
T6	USA Ed Dougherty	69-70=139	−1
USA John Schlee	71-68=139
T8	USA Al Geiberger	70-70=140	E
USA J. C. Snead	73-67=140
USA Maurice VerBrugge	72-68=140

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Third round

Saturday, August 9, 1975

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Jack Nicklaus	70-68-67=205	−5
2	AUS Bruce Crampton	71-63-75=209	−1
3		USA Hale Irwin	72-65-73=210	E
T4	USA Ed Dougherty	69-70-72=211	+3
USA Tom Weiskopf	70-71-70=211
T6	AUS David Graham	72-70-70=212	+2
USA Bob Murphy	75-68-69=212
USA Tom Watson	70-71-71=212
T9	USA Billy Casper	69-72-72=213	+3
USA Mark Hayes	67-71-75=213
USA Mike Hill	72-71-70=213
USA Larry Hinson	68-73-72=213
USA Don January	72-70-71=213
USA Gene Littler	76-71-66=213

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Final round

Sunday, August 10, 1975

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA Jack Nicklaus	70-68-67-71=276	−4	45,000
2	AUS Bruce Crampton	71-63-75-69=278	−2	25,700
3	USA Tom Weiskopf	70-71-70-68=279	−1	16,000
4	USA Andy North	72-74-70-65=281	+1	10,500
T5	USA Billy Casper	69-72-72-70=283	+3	8,663
USA Hale Irwin	72-65-73-73=283
T7	USA Dave Hill	71-71-74-68=284	+4	6,918
USA Gene Littler	76-71-66-71=284
9	USA Tom Watson	70-71-71-73=285	+5	6,075
T10	USA Buddy Allin	73-72-70-71=286	+6	4,468
USA Ben Crenshaw	73-72-71-70=286
USA Raymond Floyd	70-73-72-71=286
AUS David Graham	72-70-70-74=286
USA Don January	72-70-71-73=286
USA John Schlee	71-68-75-72=286
USA Leonard Thompson	74-69-72-71=286

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References

Parascenzo, Marino. (August 11, 1975). "Nicklaus manhandles Firestone". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"Tournament Info for: 1975 PGA Championship". PGA of America.
(August 11, 1975). "Nicklaus rules PGA again". Spokesman-Review.
(August 10, 1975). "Mini miracle at 16 sparks Nicklaus". Eugene Register-Guard.
Jenkins, Dan. (August 18, 1975). "Swinging on a star".
(August 8, 1975). "Top players trail at PGA". Eugene Register-Guard.
(August 9, 1975). "Crampton after that major crown". Eugene Register-Guard.
"1975 PGA Championship". databasegolf.com.

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