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Wisconsin PGA Championship

Wisconsin golf tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ18129301 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wisconsin PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the championship of the Wisconsin section of the PGA of America. It has been played annually since 1929 at a variety of courses in Wisconsin.

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The public source identifies “Wisconsin PGA Championship” as wisconsin golf tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wisconsin, Championship and golf.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wisconsin, Championship and golf providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18129301. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wisconsin 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.