The PGA Professional Championship is a
golf tournament run by
The PGA for club professionals. It was first played in 1973 as the MacGregor PGA Club Professionals' Championship. The leading nine players in the event became the Great Britain and Ireland team for the first Diamondhead Cup, the forerunner of the
PGA Cup
The PGA Cup is a men's golf competition for club professionals played between a Great Britain and Ireland team and a United States team. The winning team is presented with the Llandudno Trophy. The competition is run by the British PGA and the PG ...
, played against a United States team at
Pinehurst later in the year.
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Winners
The 1991 event was won by Brett Upper
Brett derives from a Middle English surname meaning " Briton" or "Breton", referring to the Celtic people of Britain and Brittany, France. Brette can be a feminine name.
People with the surname
* Adrian Brett (born 1945) English flutist and wr ...
, an American, with a score of 285. Upper received the first prize money but was not eligible to win the title.
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Golf tournaments in the United Kingdom
Golf tournaments in the Republic of Ireland
Recurring sporting events established in 1973