1957 PGA Championship
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The 1957 PGA Championship was a golf
competition held at Miami Valley Golf Club
in Dayton, Ohio
. It was historically notable as the last PGA Championship to be held at match play
. Lionel Hebert
won the championship.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
competition held at Miami Valley Golf Club
Miami Valley Golf Club
Miami Valley Golf Club is a golf club located on both sides of the border between Fort McKinley and Dayton, Ohio, USA. The golf course was designed by Donald Ross,and the club was established in 1919. The club hosted the PGA Championship in 1957, which was the last time the competition was played...
in Dayton, Ohio
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
. It was historically notable as the last PGA Championship to be held at match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
. Lionel Hebert
Lionel Hebert
Lionel P. Hebert was an American golfer. He won five times on the PGA Tour including the 1957 PGA Championship, the last to be held at match play. His older brother Jay won the same event at stroke play in 1960. Lionel also played on the 1957 Ryder Cup team...
won the championship.