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Pecan Valley Golf Club
Pecan Valley’s place in championship history rests on the 1968 PGA Championship. Julius Boros won with a total of 281, one stroke ahead of Bob Charles and Arnold Palmer.
- Course
- Pecan Valley Golf Club
- Original architect
- Press Maxwell
The course
Course design
Pecan Valley Golf Club history
Boros was forty-eight, an exceptional age for a major winner. His closing performance supplied the defining episode of the San Antonio venue’s national tournament history.
Championships
Results and dates 2 editions
PGA Championship
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Julius Boros
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U.S. Amateur Public Links
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Chez Reavie
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes5 references
Sources for this story
- PGA Championship | History PGA of America
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- USGA Golf Journal: Through the Green, September 1998
- USGA: Amateur Public Links results 1922-2014, 2001 results row Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/amateur-public-links-results-1922-2014.html; SHA-256 f09d2cf13365029ab6057ae52ccc45fb100e1bd9696f028057e55f4b80a1ffe3. Exact result row: 2001 (July 9-14): Chez Reavie d. Danny Green, 38 holes; Pecan Valley G.C., San Antonio, Texas; Medalists — 140, James Vargas, Nick Cassini; Entries: 4,625 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 50th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- City of San Antonio: Legislative File 14-1427 San Antonio’s 2014 legislative record identifies the 180-acre Pecan Valley course as the 1968 PGA venue and records its 2012 closure. This connection records the historical course, not a proposed replacement.