In August 1991, the focal point of the golfing world was on Indiana, specifically the Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel. The 73rd edition of the PGA was being held in our state for just the second time. The first time was during the ‘Roaring 20’s,’ when flamboyant Walter Hagen won the 1924 PGA Championship, then a match-play event, at French Lick on what was then called The Hills Course, now known as The Donald Ross Course. Hagen garnered his second PGA Championship victory by defeating Jim Barnes in the final match, 3 & 2. Hagen had won it in 1921 and would also hoist the Wanamaker Trophy in 1925, 1926 and 1927, winning it a total of five times. Looking Back at 1991 PGA Championship AT Crooked Stick In 1991, the PGA Championship was a 72-hole stroke play event, as it remains to this day. One of the least known golfers in the field, in that year, was the eighth alternate and final man to be added to the tournament. The young blond haired, long-hitting John Daly, from Arkansas, blistered Crooked Stick with his aggressive play off the tees to grab the Wanamaker Cup. His four-day total of 276 was 12 under par and three strokes clear of his nearest pursuer, Bruce Lietzke and five ahead of third-place finisher, Jim Gallagher, Jr. Three prominent names on the leaderboard were three former PGA Championship winners, Ray Floyd, Hal Sutton, and Jack Nicklaus, a five-time By Mike May
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