1958 PGA Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1958 PGA Championship

| image =

| dates = July 17–20, 1958

| location = Havertown, Pennsylvania

| course = Llanerch Country Club

| org = PGA of America

| tour = PGA Tour

| format = Stroke play

| par = 70

| yardage = {{convert|6710|yd|0}}

| field = 161 players
93 after first cut
64 after second cut

| cut = 154 (+14) (first cut)
228 (+18) (second cut){{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ev9PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6970%2C2707691 |title=Snead takes over PGA command; can become oldest man to win |newspaper=St. Petersburg Independent |location=Florida |agency=Associated Press |first=Will |last=Grimsley |date=July 20, 1958 |page=10-A}}

| purse = $39,388{{cite web |url=http://www.pgamediaguide.com/pgachampionship_detail.cfm?tournament_id=386&date=1958&tourn_name_id=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023164358/http://www.pgamediaguide.com/pgachampionship_detail.cfm?tournament_id=386&date=1958&tourn_name_id=2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 23, 2006 |publisher=PGA.com |title=Tournament Info for: 1958 PGA Championship |access-date=July 17, 2012 }}

| winners_share = $5,500

| champion = {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Dow Finsterwald

| score = 276 (−4)

| previous = 1957

| next = 1959

}}

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The 1958 PGA Championship was the 40th PGA Championship, played July 17–20 at Llanerch Country Club in Havertown, Pennsylvania, a suburb west of Philadelphia. It was the first PGA Championship held in its current stroke play format,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1958/08/04/566616/items-from-a-summer-notebook |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Wind |first=Herbert Warren |title=Items from a summer notebook |date=August 4, 1958 |page=46}} 72 holes over four days, ending on Sunday. The previous editions were at match play, with the two most recent ones at seven rounds over five days, the final two rounds at 36 holes per match. The announcement of the change was made eight months earlier in November.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2QcaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OyMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3717%2C3494493|newspaper=Time-News|location=(Hendersonville, North Carolina)|agency=United Press|title=Medal play in pro golf slated|date=November 15, 1957|page=8}}{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1957/11/15/page/51/article/p-g-a-swings-from-match-to-medal-play|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |title=P.G.A. swings from match to medal play |date=November 15, 1957 |page=1, part 4 }}

Dow Finsterwald, the runner-up in 1957, shot a final round 67 to win his only major title, two shots ahead of runner-up Billy Casper. Finsterwald's round-by-round scores were 67-72-70-67=276, 4-under-par on the par-70 course.{{cite news |title=Final Scores From PGA |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |page=41 |date=July 21, 1958}} Sam Snead led after 54 holes in pursuit of a fourth title, but faded to third with a final round 73 (+3).{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lNk0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=DBAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5840%2C69451 |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |agency=UPI |title=Finsterwald wins as Snead 'blows up' |date=July 21, 1958 |page=2, part 2}} The winner's share was $5,500, down from the previous year's $8,000.

The Open Championship was held two weeks earlier in England at Royal Lytham & St Annes, with only two Americans in the field; Gene Sarazen finished 16th, but missed the first cut at the PGA Championship.