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The 1956 PGA Championship was the 38th edition of the professional golf competition, held at Blue Hill Country Club in Canton, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. Jack Burke, Jr. won his second major championship of 1956, a 3 & 2 victory over Ted Kroll; Burke won the Masters in April. It was the penultimate PGA Championship as a match play competition; stroke play was introduced two years later in 1958. This was the tenth and final year the PGA Championship was scheduled for a Tuesday finish. Defending champion Doug Ford was stopped in the third round by 1953 champion Walter Burkemo, 5 & 3. Burke was the second to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same calendar year, following Sam Snead in 1949. Through 2013, it has only been accomplished four times, with the latter two by Jack Nicklaus in 1963 and 1975. ==Format== The match play format at the PGA Championship was modified in 1956 and called for 9 rounds (162 holes) in five days, Friday through Tuesday. Previously, a two-day stroke play qualifying segment (36 holes) on Wednesday and Thursday preceded the match play competition to narrow the field to 64 competitors. This year, 128 players were entered in the single-elimination bracket. The first five rounds were 18-hole matches, contested in the morning and afternoon of the first three days, which reduced the field to four players. The semifinals and finals were 36-hole matches played on the final two days, Monday and Tuesday.〔〔 * Friday – first round, 18 holes * Saturday – second and third rounds, 18 holes each * Sunday – fourth round and quarterfinals, 18 holes each * Monday – semifinals – 36 holes * Tuesday – final – 36 holes 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1956 PGA Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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