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Indiana PGA Championship

golf tournament in Indiana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ18126170 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Indiana PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the championship of the Indiana section of the PGA of America. Although the Indiana section was chartered in 1924, there were no section championships held until 1936. Todd Smith, member of the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame, holds the record with six victories. PGA Tour winners who also won this tournament include Bob Mann, who partnered with Wayne Levi to win the 1978 Walt Disney World National Team Championship, and Bob Hamilton, who won the PGA Championship in 1944, and Chris Smith, who won the 2002 Buick Classic.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Indiana PGA Championship” is golf tournament in Indiana. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Indiana, Championship and golf, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 1936, 1978, 1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Indiana, Championship and golf is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “golf tournament in Indiana” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18126170. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1924, 1936, 1978 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Indiana PGA Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.