1964 PGA Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1964 PGA Championship

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| dates = July 16–19, 1964

| location = Columbus, Ohio

| course = Columbus Country Club

| org = PGA of America

| tour = PGA Tour

| par = 70

| yardage = {{convert|6851|yd}}

| field = 162 players,
93 after 1st cut
65 after 2nd cut

| cut = 150 (+10) (1st cut)
221 (+11) (2nd cut)

| purse = $100,000{{cite web |url=http://www.pgamediaguide.com/pgachampionship_detail.cfm?tournament_id=415&date=1964&tourn_name_id=2 |publisher=PGA.com |title=Tournament Info for: 1964 PGA Championship |access-date=December 31, 2012 |archive-date=November 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130083445/http://www.pgamediaguide.com/pgachampionship_detail.cfm?tournament_id=415&date=1964&tourn_name_id=2 |url-status=dead }}

| winners_share = $18,000

| champion = {{flagicon|USA}} Bobby Nichols

| score = 271 (−9)

| previous = 1963

| next = 1965

}}

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The 1964 PGA Championship was the 46th PGA Championship, played July 16–19 at Columbus Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. Bobby Nichols won his only major title, three strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1076187/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213062427/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1076187/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 13, 2013 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Wright |first=Alfred |title='You Aren't Going To Believe This, But...' |date=July 27, 1964 |page=48 |access-date=January 2, 2013}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gkkNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gmwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7029%2C2535741 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |last=Gundelfinger |first=Phil |title=Nichols PGA Champ With Record 271 |date=July 20, 1964 |page=19 |access-date=January 2, 2013}} Nichols led wire-to-wire after a first round 64 in the hometown of Nicklaus, who shot a 64 in the final round to gain his third runner-up finish in majors in 1964.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kydWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X-MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6588%2C4256002|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |title=Nichols holds of Nicklaus in PGA |date=July 20, 1964 |page=3B}}

Ben Hogan, age 51, competed at the PGA Championship for the first time since 1960. Tied for fifth place after a third round 68, he finished tied for ninth for his penultimate top ten in a major. His final top ten came at the 1967 Masters.

Nichols' winning score of 271 was the lowest to date at the PGA Championship, the seventh as a 72-hole stroke play championship. It stood as the record for thirty years, until Nick Price's 269 in 1994.

Nichols' win marked the third time that all of the professional major championships were won by Americans in a calendar year.

The British Open was played the previous week in St Andrews, Scotland, one of five times in the 1960s that these two majors were played in consecutive weeks in July. The PGA Championship moved to August in 1969 (except 1971, when it was played in late February) until 2019, when it was moved to the weekend before Memorial Day in May.{{Cite web |date=2017-08-07 |title=Report: PGA Championship set for May in 2019 |url=https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/20276694/pga-championship-moves-2019 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}