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1965 PGA Championship Book Laurel Valley Golf Club Arnold Palmer open ryder tpc
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1965 PGA Championship book autographed by Arnold PalmerThe
1965 PGA Championship
was the 47th
PGA Championship
, played August 12–15 at
Laurel Valley Golf Club
in
Ligonier, Pennsylvania
, a suburb southeast of
Pittsburgh
.
Dave Marr
won his only
major championship
, two strokes ahead of runners-up
Billy Casper
and
Jack Nicklaus
.
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Marr was the co-leader after 54 holes with
Tommy Aaron
, a stroke ahead of
Gardner Dickinson
and two shots ahead of major champions Nicklaus and Casper.
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Aaron shot 78 and Dickinson 74 on Sunday, while Marr matched an even-par 71 with Nicklaus and Casper.
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Not far from his hometown of
Latrobe
, Laurel Valley was co-founded by
Arnold Palmer
in 1959,
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who had another disappointing major in his home state and finished 14 strokes back, tied for 33rd.
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Three years earlier, he lost an 18-hole playoff to Nicklaus in the
U.S. Open
at
Oakmont
near
Pittsburgh
, then finished tied for 17th five weeks later at the
PGA Championship
at
Aronimink
, outside
Philadelphia
. (Palmer won the other two majors of 1962, the
Masters
and the
Open Championship
, but never won the PGA Championship for a
career grand slam
.)
After the practice rounds, a 60-foot (18 m)
fir
tree was installed on the par-5 third hole to prevent corner-cutting from the tee to an adjacent fairway, over the objections of the club professional.
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This was the final PGA Championship appearance for two-time champion
Ben Hogan
, age 53, who tied for 15th place. After his near-fatal auto accident in early 1949, Hogan's legs could not withstand the grueling match play schedule and he did not play again in the championship until it became a stroke play event. He missed the 54-hole cut by a stroke in
1960
and tied for ninth place in
1964
. Hogan won the title as a match play event in
1946
and
1948
. Twenty former champions were in the field and twelve made the cut. Palmer was assessed a two-stroke penalty in both of the first two rounds and was at 147 (+5), ten shots back.
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A decade later, Laurel Valley hosted the
Ryder Cup
in
1975
, the last Ryder Cup held in the U.S. without players from continental
Europe
.