Tags: Golf Tournament, Tournament.
The 1926 PGA Championship was the ninth PGA Championship held September 20–25 at Salisbury Golf Club on Long Island in East Meadow New York. Then a match play championship Walter Hagen defeated Leo Diegel 5 & 3 in the finals to win his third consecutive PGA Championship his fourth overall and the eighth of his eleven major titles.The victory ran Hagen’s match record at the PGA Championship in the 1920s to 25–1 (.962) falling only to Gene Sarazen in 38 holes in the 1923 finals.