On August 7 in golf history — 1949: Sam Snead wins PGA Championship at Hermitage, plus 4 more moments from 1949–2016.
In the summer of 1949 Sam Snead added the PGA Championship to the Masters title he had won that spring, a high point of his Hall of Fame career.
Sam SneadIn August 1988 Spain's Seve Ballesteros was at his peak, having won the Open Championship at Royal Lytham weeks earlier with his trademark flair.
Seve BallesterosOn August 7, 1994, Nick Price won the PGA Championship at Southern Hills by six strokes, completing a season in which he won both the Open and the PGA.
Nick PriceOn August 7, 2005, Tiger Woods beat Chris DiMarco in a playoff to win the WGC-NEC Invitational at Firestone, the first of three straight wins there.
Tiger WoodsOn August 7, 2016, Dustin Johnson won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone, part of a dominant summer that followed his maiden major at the U.S. Open.
Dustin Johnson