This Day in Golf--May 30

If you count Jim Barnes winning in 1916 and 1919 with the two middle years taken off for World War I, the PGA Championship has been won in consecutive years seven times. Tiger Woods did it twice, and Walter Hagen won not just two in a row but four. On this date in 1937, Denny Shute won his second straight PGA at the Pittsburgh Field Club in Fox Chapel, Pa. He beat Harold (Jug) McSpaden in 37 holes. McSpaden was 2 up with three to play, but lost his lead on 16 and 17 with over-par holes, and then he bogeyed the first extra hole. For all of Shute’s work that week, he earned just $1,000.