Youngest Winners of the PGA Championship Tournament
The youngest winner ever of the PGA Championship was only 20 years old when he won it. And he won it again the next year to appear on the youngest-winners list twice.
That golfer — the record-holder — is golf legend Gene Sarazen. By the time his career ended, Sarazen had 39 PGA Tour wins and seven major championship wins, and was the first golfer to win the career grand slam.
List of Youngest PGA Championship Winners
- Gene Sarazen won the 1922 PGA Championship at 20 years, 5 months, 22 days old
- Tom Creavy won the 1931 PGA Championship at age 20 years, 7 months, 17 days
- Gene Sarazen won the 1923 PGA Championship at 21 years, 7 months, 2 days old
- Rory McIlroy won the 2012 PGA Championship at age 23 years, 3 months, 8 days
- Jack Nicklaus won the 1963 PGA Championship at age 23 years, 6 months
- Collin Morikawa won the 2020 PGA Championship at age 23 years, 6 months, 4 days
- Tiger Woods won the 1999 PGA Championship at 23 years, 7 months old
Rory McIlroy Is PGA Championship's Youngest Stroke-Play Winner
The first three golfers on the list above all won their PGA Championships in the tournament's match-play era, and early in its history.The second four golfers on the list all won in the stroke-play era. When McIlroy won in 2012, he supplanted Nicklaus as the youngest PGA Championship winner playing stroke play — what you might call the tournament's "modern era."
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