1965 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
The 1965 PGA Championship was the 47th edition of this major, staged by the PGA of America. Dave Marr won the title over a pair of superstar runners-up.
Winner: Dave Marr, 280
Where it was played: Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvania
Tournament dates: August 12-15, 1965
Leader after first round: Tommy Aaron, 66
Leader after second round: Tommy Aaron, 137
Leader after third round: Tommy Aaron and Dave Marr, 209
What Happened in the 1965 PGA Championship
The co-leaders after the third round were Tommy Aaron and Dave Marr. Aaron had not yet won on the PGA Tour, while Marr had just two victories. And Marr is the one who held his nerve in the final round. Aaron got off to a poor start and shot 40 on the front nine en route to a 78.Marr played steady, if unspectacular, golf. On the final hole, after hitting a poor drive with a 2-stroke lead, Marr chose to lay up out of a bunker short of the green, which was fronted by water. He then pitched over the water and sank the putt, making par the hard way for a 71 and the trophy.
More impressive about Marr's victory was the pair of golfers who finished tied for second place, two strokes behind him: superstars Jack Nicklaus and Billy Casper. They began the final round tied for fourth place, two strokes behind, but couldn't make up any ground. Nicklaus and Casper, like Marr, carded 71s in the final round. Nicklaus won the PGA Championship five times, and this was the second of four times he finished runner-up in this major.
Marr won only three times total on the PGA Tour in his career, and this was the last of those wins. Marr's father was a PGA professional, and with this win Marr became the fourth son of a PGA pro to win the PGA Championship. (The first was Chick Harbert in 1954.) Aaron, who fell to eighth place, went on to win the 1973 Masters.
Fifty-three-year-old Ben Hogan finished tied for 15th in his final appearance in the PGA Championship. Jack Burke Jr., who won two majors including the 1956 PGA Championship, tied for eighth — his final Top 10 finish in any major. Another 2-time major winner (including the 1939 PGA Championship), Henry Picard, missed the cut in his final appearance in the PGA Championship.
1965 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Dave Marr | 70-69-70-71—280 |
| Billy Casper | 70-70-71-71—282 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 69-70-72-71—282 |
| Bo Wininger | 73-72-72-66—283 |
| Gardner Dickinson | 67-74-69-74—284 |
| Bruce Devlin | 68-75-72-70—285 |
| Sam Snead | 68-75-70-72—285 |
| Tommy Aaron | 66-71-72-78—287 |
| Jack Burke Jr. | 75-71-72-69—287 |
| Jacky Cupit | 72-76-70-69—287 |
| Rod Funseth | 75-72-69-71—287 |
| Bob McCallister | 76-68-70-73—287 |
| Wes Ellis Jr. | 73-76-70-69—288 |
| R.H. Sikes | 71-71-71-75—288 |
| Ben Hogan | 72-75-70-72—289 |
| Mike Souchak | 70-72-77-70—289 |
| Julius Boros | 75-72-73-70—290 |
| Raymond Floyd | 68-73-72-77—290 |
| Al Geiberger | 74-71-71-75—291 |
| Bruce Crampton | 77-74-70-71—292 |
| Jack Fleck | 76-71-72-73—292 |
| Doug Ford | 73-70-77-72—292 |
| Gordon Jones | 72-76-71-73—292 |
| George Knudson | 75-69-73-75—292 |
| Kel Nagle | 74-75-71-72—292 |
| Mason Rudolph | 67-76-75-74—292 |
| Doug Sanders | 71-73-74-74—292 |
| Don Bies | 71-71-75-76—293 |
| Gay Brewer | 75-70-73-75—293 |
| Paul Kelly | 76-71-75-71—293 |
| Gene Littler | 78-70-70-75—293 |
| Johnny Pott | 76-70-74-73—293 |
| Manuel De La Torre | 72-73-74-75—294 |
| Ed Furgol | 73-74-72-75—294 |
| Paul Harney | 74-74-72-74—294 |
| Al Mengert | 75-76-75-68—294 |
| Arnold Palmer | 72-75-74-73—294 |
| Gary Player | 74-72-74-74—294 |
| Dave Ragan | 73-73-78-70—294 |
| Charles Sifford | 73-75-71-75—294 |
| Walter Burkemo | 72-77-73-73—295 |
| Bob Charles | 75-75-73-72—295 |
| Dale Douglass | 72-76-74-74—296 |
| Billy Maxwell | 71-75-74-76—296 |
| Frank Beard | 74-74-72-77—297 |
| Billy Farrell | 76-75-75-71—297 |
| Dick Hart | 72-77-72-76—297 |
| Dan Sikes | 74-75-73-75—297 |
| Vic Ghezzi | 73-77-74-74—298 |
| Lionel Hebert | 73-73-76-76—298 |
| Vince Sullivan | 72-73-79-74—298 |
| Chuck Courtney | 70-76-76-77—299 |
| Steve Reid | 76-75-73-75—299 |
| Billy Capps | 77-74-75-74—300 |
| Bob Crowley | 78-72-74-76—300 |
| Jay Hebert | 72-73-78-77—300 |
| Bobby Nichols | 74-75-77-74—300 |
| Tom Nieporte | 75-74-83-68—300 |
| Fred Wampler | 74-74-76-76—300 |
| Jim Ferree | 75-75-77-74—301 |
| George Archer | 74-74-78-76—302 |
| Tony Lema | 71-76-75-80—302 |
| Dow Finsterwald | 73-78-77-75—303 |
| Ed Griffiths | 73-75-75-80—303 |
| Ted Kroll | 73-75-77-78—303 |
| Dick Marshall | 74-73-84-72—303 |
| T.R. Sleichter | 77-71-78-77—303 |
| Mike Fetchick | 76-74-75-79—304 |
| Bob Goalby | 75-74-77-78—304 |
| Jon Gustin | 73-77-78-76—304 |
| Chi Chi Rodriguez | 72-77-77-79—305 |
| Huston Leclair | 77-74-75-79—305 |
| Mike Krak | 71-80-76-79—306 |
| Roland Stafford | 76-74-74-82—306 |
| Hubby Habjan | 78-71-75-83—307 |
| Larry Bartosek | 75-75-80-80—310 |
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