1967 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
The 1967 PGA Championship was the 49th edition of this major, staged by the PGA of America. The winner was decided in an 18-hole playoff.
Winner: Don January, 281
Where it was played: Columbine Country Club in Columbine Valley, Colorado
Tournament dates: July 20-24, 1967
Leader after first round: Dave Hill, 66
Leader after second round: Tommy Aaron, 135
Leader after third round: Dan Sikes, 209
What Happened in the 1967 PGA Championship
The last 18-hole playoff to take place in a PGA Championship happened here, and it was Don January who emerged the winner. January and Don Massengale tied for the 72-hole lead at 281, one stroke better than Jack Nicklaus and third-round leader Dan Sikes. In the playoff, January won by two strokes with a 69.This was the 10th PGA Championship played using stroke play (it was a match play tournament prior to 1958). And in those 10 years there were two 18-hole playoffs, and January was involved in both. At the 1961 PGA Championship, however, January lost that playoff. In the years after the 1967 playoff, the PGA of America switched to a sudden-death format, which was used for the first time at the next playoff in 1977.
January was eight strokes off the lead after 36 holes, and started the final round four strokes behind third-round leader Dan Sikes. Massengale was six strokes behind Sikes. Jack Nicklaus was two behind Sikes, and caught him with a 71 to Sikes' 73. But January (68) and Massengale (66) blew by both to finish at 7-under 281 and force the playoff.
The victory was the sixth of January's 10 PGA Tour wins, and his only win in a major. Massengale won twice on tour in 1966, but then never won again on the PGA Tour.
The golf course in 1967 was Columbine Country Club in Colorado. At an elevation of 5,300 feet above sea level, Columbine played 7,436 yards during this tournament — the longest golf course in major championship history to this point.
1967 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Don January | 71-72-70-68—281 |
| Don Massengale | 70-75-70-66—281 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 67-75-69-71—282 |
| Dan Sikes | 69-70-70-73—282 |
| Julius Boros | 69-76-70-68—283 |
| Al Geiberger | 73-71-69-70—283 |
| Frank Beard | 71-74-70-70—285 |
| Don Bies | 69-70-76-70—285 |
| Bob Goalby | 70-74-68-73—285 |
| Gene Littler | 73-72-71-69—285 |
| Billy Farrell | 75-72-69-70—286 |
| Dave Hill | 66-73-74-73—286 |
| Ken Venturi | 73-74-71-68—286 |
| Sam Carmichael | 75-71-69-72—287 |
| Lionel Hebert | 75-71-70-71—287 |
| Bobby Nichols | 75-75-67-70—287 |
| Arnold Palmer | 70-71-72-74—287 |
| R.H. Sikes | 72-71-71-73—287 |
| Billy Casper | 75-70-75-68—288 |
| Tommy Aaron | 70-65-76-78—289 |
| Bill Bisdorf | 72-71-77-69—289 |
| Dick Crawford | 76-73-73-67—289 |
| Raymond Floyd | 74-69-74-72—289 |
| Mike Souchak | 70-73-70-76—289 |
| Wes Ellis Jr. | 76-71-72-71—290 |
| Bruce Crampton | 71-77-74-69—291 |
| Earl Stewart | 77-70-72-72—291 |
| Gay Brewer | 75-74-71-72—292 |
| Gardner Dickinson | 75-72-69-76—292 |
| Phil Rodgers | 71-76-72-73—292 |
| Mason Rudolph | 72-73-73-74—292 |
| Doug Sanders | 72-71-76-73—292 |
| Dave Marr | 75-72-71-75—293 |
| Tom Nieporte | 73-73-73-74—293 |
| Jerry Pittman | 72-78-69-74—293 |
| Ernie Vossler | 72-74-73-74—293 |
| Dudley Wysong | 73-70-76-74—293 |
| Bill Martindale | 73-76-74-71—294 |
| Ken Still | 73-74-76-71—294 |
| Fred Wampler | 73-75-74-72—294 |
| Bob Zimmerman | 76-74-76-68—294 |
| Frank Boynton | 71-76-73-75—295 |
| Jack Burke Jr. | 73-78-71-73—295 |
| John Berry | 76-70-78-72—296 |
| Pete Cooper | 77-70-78-71—296 |
| Dale Douglass | 74-73-72-77—296 |
| Babe Lichardus | 75-75-71-75—296 |
| Larry Mancour | 75-76-72-73—296 |
| Dm McBeath | 74-72-75-75—296 |
| Robert Stone | 74-74-75-73—296 |
| Fred Haas Jr. | 74-72-79-72—297 |
| Skee Riegel | 76-75-74-72—297 |
| Bob Toski | 72-76-71-78—297 |
| Jimmy Wright | 73-74-77-73—297 |
| George Archer | 74-76-75-73—298 |
| Paul Harney | 75-75-74-74—298 |
| Davis Love Jr. | 69-79-76-74—298 |
| Bobby Mitchell | 76-74-70-78—298 |
| James Stamps | 77-74-73-74—298 |
| Dow Finsterwald | 74-75-74-76—299 |
| Dick Hart | 73-75-75-76—299 |
| Mac Hunter | 72-75-71-81—299 |
| Johnny Bulla | 78-73-76-73—300 |
| Clare Emery | 73-76-79-73—301 |
| Jim Ferrier | 74-75-75-77—301 |
| Pat Schwab | 75-76-75-75—301 |
| Gene Bone | 72-74-78-78—302 |
| Chick Harbert | 73-76-77-76—302 |
| Tommy Jacobs | 74-74-76-78—302 |
| Robert Erickson | 76-75-80-72—303 |
| Roland Stafford | 74-76-78-76—304 |
| Rich Bassett | 70-80-86-69—305 |
| Glenn Teal | 77-74-77-80—308 |
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