Tags: Golf Tournament, Tournament.
The 1945 PGA Championship was the 27th PGA Championship held July 9–15 at Moraine Country Club in Kettering Ohio a suburb south of Dayton. Then a match play championship Byron Nelson won 4 & 3 in the final over Sam Byrd a former major league baseball player.It was Nelson’s fifth and final major title and his second win at the PGA Championship; he also won in 1940 and was a runner-up three times (1939 1941 1944). The winner’s share of the purse was $5000 in war bonds.