PGA stands for Professional Golfers Association of America. It is a not-for-profit organization that turned ninety this year. In New York City during 1916, thirty-five charter members from a group of men who were professional golfers and well-known amateur golfers stated this organization to promote interest in golf, and to elevate the golf profession. At the time, the men who began the PGA felt that interest for the game was on the rise.
Today there are more than twenty-eight thousand members in the PGA, and it is the largest World’s Sports Organization. In addition, the organization’s magazine is the countries oldest continuously published golf monthly. The first PGA championship was held in October of 1916. Since that time, there have been eighty- eight PGA championships in sixty-eight different sites in the United States. The purse for the first championship was a donated $2,580. Today the PGA has various competitions each year. Some of them are included in the Ryder Cup, PGA Grand Slam of Golf, and the Senior PGA Championship.
The PGA Championship is considered by many to be the premier sporting event in the country. Back in the 1950s, the...
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