1942 PGA Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1942 PGA Championship

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| location = Galloway Twp., New Jersey

| course = Seaview Country Club

| dates = May 25–31, 1942

| par = 72{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T_0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aNQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3468%2C4498870 |newspaper=Miami Daily News |agency=United Press |last=Fraley |first=Oscar |title=Nelson, Hogan and Snead rated top favorites in field of over 100 |date=May 25, 1942 |page=2-B |accessdate=April 30, 2013}}

| yardage = {{convert|6750|yd|0}}

| org = PGA of America

| tour = PGA Tour

| field = 102 players,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C-8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5iIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2936%2C4533941 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=United Press |title=Dudley leads with fine 66 |date=May 26, 1942 |page=8 |accessdate=April 30, 2013}}
32 to match play

| cut = 147 (+3), playoff

| format = Match play - 5 rounds

| purse = $7,550{{cite web |url=http://www.pgamediaguide.com/pgachampionship_detail.cfm?tournament_id=461&date=1942&tourn_name_id=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023165845/http://www.pgamediaguide.com/pgachampionship_detail.cfm?tournament_id=461&date=1942&tourn_name_id=2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 23, 2006 |publisher=PGA of America |title=Tournament Info for: 1942 PGA Championship |accessdate=April 30, 2013 }}

| winners_share = $2,000

| champion = {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Sam Snead

| score = def. Jim Turnesa, 2 and 1

| previous = 1941

| next = 1944

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The 1942 PGA Championship was the 25th PGA Championship, held May 25–31 at Seaview Country Club in Galloway Township, New Jersey, just north of Atlantic City. Then a match play championship, Sam Snead won 2 and 1 in the final over Jim Turnesa.{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1942/06/01/page/21/article/snead-beats-turnesa-2-and-1-for-pga-title |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |last=Bartlett |first=Charles |title=Snead beats Turnesa, 2 and 1, for P.G.A. title |date=June 1, 1942 |page=21}}

It was the first of Snead's seven major titles, and he began his service in the U.S. Navy immediately after the event.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_iFPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eE0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6944%2C58739 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |last=Guenther |first=Jack |agency=United Press |title=Sam Snead finally wins a big one |date=June 1, 1942 |page=9 |accessdate=April 30, 2013}} Turnesa, from a large family of professional golfers, won the PGA Championship in 1952. He was serving in the U.S. Army and had defeated the other pre-tournament favorites, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, in the quarterfinals and semifinals.

Due to World War II, this was the second and final major of the year, following the Masters. None of the majors were played in 1943; the PGA Championship returned in 1944 and the other three in 1946. The field for this PGA Championship was reduced from prior years, with 32 advancing to match play, and all five rounds at 36 holes per match. This format was continued for 1944 and 1945, then returned to the pre-war match play field of 64 in 1946.

In the three previous years, Nelson had advanced to the finals, but was defeated in the 1942 semifinals by Turnesa in 37 holes. Nelson returned to the finals at the next two editions for five finals in six PGA Championships; he won two, in 1940 and 1945. Prior to his match with Nelson, Turnesa defeated Hogan 2 and 1 in the quarterfinals; after the war, Hogan won the title in 1946 and 1948.

Defending champion Vic Ghezzi, a New Jersey native, lost 4 and 3 in the first round to Jimmy Demaret, who fell 3 & 2 to Snead in the semifinals. Harry Cooper was the medalist in the stroke play qualifier at 138 (−6), but lost to Nelson in the quarterfinals on the third extra hole.

The golf course, now known as the Bay Course of the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club, was designed in 1914 by Donald Ross. It hosts an annual event on the LPGA Tour, the ShopRite LPGA Classic.