1949 PGA Championship
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The 1949 PGA Championship was a golf
competition held at Hermitage Country Club
. Sam Snead
won the championship.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
competition held at Hermitage Country Club
Hermitage Country Club
Hermitage Country Club is a country club located in eastern Goochland County, in the Richmond, Virginia area. The club was founded in 1900 by Berkely Williams, making it the 4th oldest country club in Virginia. The club hosted the PGA Championship in 1949, at the course that later became Henrico...
. Sam Snead
Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...
won the championship.