In the Friday final, Gene Sarazen defeated Emmet French, 4 and 3.

[3] Sarazen, age 20, also won the U.S. Open a month earlier near Chicago.

Sarazen was the first of four players in history to win the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship in the same calendar year.

Source:[4] The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1922 called for 10 rounds (180 holes) in five days.

The first two rounds were 18-hole matches, contested in the morning and afternoon of the first day, which reduced the field to sixteen players.