1960 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
Winner: Jay Hebert, 281
Where it was played: Firestone Country Club (South Course) in Akron, Ohio
Tournament dates: July 21-24, 1960
Leader after first round: Arnold Palmer, 67
Leader after second round: Jay Hebert, 139
Leader after third round: Doug Sanders, 210
What Happened at the 1960 PGA Championship
Jay Hebert took the trophy this year by one stroke over Jim Ferrier and two over third-round leader Doug Sanders, joining little brother Lionel Hebert — winner of the 1957 PGA Championship — as a major winner.It was tough scoring this year, with only 13 sub-par rounds recorded during the tournament, and that remains a PGA Championship record. There were four sub-par scores in Round 1, and just a single sub-par round (a 69 by Wes Ellis, who wound up sixth) in the final round, also marks still tied for the tournament record.
Arnold Palmer opened with a 67 to take the first-round lead, but faded with middle rounds of 75-74 and finished tied for seventh. After three rounds, Doug Sanders was the leader, with Jay Hebert and 1947 PGA Championship winner Jim Ferrier one stroke behind. But no member of that trio surged in the final round, and Hebert came out on top with an even-par 70 (despite a double bogey on the 10th hole) to Ferrier's 71 and Sanders' 73.
Jay Hebert won seven times during his PGA Tour career, and this was the fifth of those seven victories. It was his only major; in fact, Hebert had only one other Top 5 finish in a major championship. At the time of the 1960 PGA Championship, Hebert's 72 in the third round was the highest third-round score by an eventual winner in tournament history (a record since broken).
This was the first PGA Championship that Ben Hogan played since he won it in 1948, but he missed the 54-hole cut. The car crash that nearly killed Hogan in 1949 left him with lingering leg pain — he simply couldn't take the 36-hole days required by the PGA Championship during its match-play era (which didn't end until 1958).
1960 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Jay Hebert | 72-67-72-70—281 |
| Jim Ferrier | 71-74-66-71—282 |
| Doug Sanders | 70-71-69-73—283 |
| Sam Snead | 68-73-70-72—283 |
| Don January | 70-70-72-72—284 |
| Wes Ellis Jr. | 72-72-72-69—285 |
| Doug Ford | 75-70-69-72—286 |
| Arnold Palmer | 67-74-75-70—286 |
| Ken Venturi | 70-72-73-72—287 |
| Fred Hawkins | 73-69-72-74—288 |
| Dave Marr | 75-71-69-73—288 |
| Bill Collins | 71-75-71-73—290 |
| Ted Kroll | 73-71-72-74—290 |
| Mike Souchak | 73-73-70-74—290 |
| Pete Cooper | 73-74-70-74—291 |
| Dow Finsterwald | 73-73-69-76—291 |
| Johnny Pott | 75-72-72-72—291 |
| Paul Harney | 69-78-73-72—292 |
| Lionel Hebert | 75-72-70-75—292 |
| Gene Littler | 74-70-75-73—292 |
| Tom Nieporte | 72-74-74-72—292 |
| Dave Ragan | 75-75-68-75—293 |
| Mason Rudolph | 72-71-76-74—293 |
| Julius Boros | 76-73-72-73—294 |
| Walter Burkemo | 72-77-73-72—294 |
| Billy Casper | 73-75-75-71—294 |
| Billy Maxwell | 74-77-72-71—294 |
| Ernie Vossler | 71-77-74-72—294 |
| Jack Burke Jr. | 73-72-78-72—295 |
| Cary Middlecoff | 73-74-73-75—295 |
| Bo Wininger | 73-77-71-74—295 |
| Jerry Barber | 76-72-73-75—296 |
| Bob Goalby | 72-79-72-73—296 |
| Chick Harbert | 78-72-71-75—296 |
| Bob Harris | 71-76-77-72—296 |
| Shelley Mayfield | 73-73-75-75—296 |
| Henry Picard | 77-73-73-73—296 |
| Jim Turnesa | 76-73-72-75—296 |
| Al Besselink | 71-74-73-79—297 |
| James Clark | 74-71-78-74—297 |
| Don Fairfield | 70-75-74-78—297 |
| Tony Holguin | 76-72-72-77—297 |
| Bud Holscher | 77-73-74-73—297 |
| Dick Lundahl | 76-73-75-73—297 |
| Art Wall | 75-74-72-76—297 |
| Bill Bisdorf | 72-74-74-78—298 |
| Dick Knight | 74-75-73-76—298 |
| Milon Marusic | 74-77-73-74—298 |
| Frank Stranahan | 75-75-74-75—299 |
| Fred Wampler | 73-72-79-75—299 |
| George Bayer | 71-73-76-80—300 |
| Joe Greer | 76-73-72-79—300 |
| Dick Stranahan | 76-72-74-78—300 |
| Buddy Sullivan | 75-73-73-79—300 |
| Frank Harned | 75-74-74-78—301 |
| Herb Marcussen | 77-72-74-78—301 |
| Tommy Bolt | 72-72-78-81—303 |
| Dick Shoemaker | 74-76-74-79—303 |
| John O'Donnell | 71-71-82-81—305 |
| Sonny Rouse | 74-75-75-82—306 |
