1986 PGA Championship

The 1986 PGA Championship was the 68th PGA Championship, held August 7–11 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Bob Tway won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman, the 54-hole leader.

1986 PGA Championship

Tournament information
Dates	August 7–11, 1986
Location	Toledo, Ohio
Course(s)	Inverness Club
Organized by	PGA of America
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	6,982 yards (6,384 m)[1][2]
Field	150 players, 72 after cut[3]
Cut	146 (+4)
Prize fund	$800,000
Winner's share	$140,000
Champion
Bob Tway
276 (−8)

Inverness
Club

Location in the United States

Inverness
Club

Location in Ohio

Heavy rains on Sunday stopped play for the day in mid-afternoon. In the final group, Norman and Tway completed just one hole of their final round and resumed play on Monday afternoon.[4]

Norman started the round with a four-shot lead and held that margin through the front nine. After a double bogey at 11 and a bogey at 14, the two were tied. They halved the next three holes at par and were tied at the 72nd tee. Tway put his approach shot in a greenside bunker, while Norman was just off the green on the fringe, 25 feet (8 m) out. Tway improbably holed out for birdie[5] and Norman's attempt to tie missed, as did his par-saving putt. Norman led all four majors in 1986 after the third round, but won only the Open.[6]

Entering the championship, Norman was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 1986, with Tway in second place.[7]

This was the fifth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the U.S. Open in 1920, 1931, 1957, and 1979, and was the first in which the winning score was under-par; the previous best was even-par in 1979 by Hale Irwin.[8] The PGA Championship returned in 1993.

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	398	385	190	466	401	211	452	528	420	3,451	363	378	162	523	448	458	409	431	354	3,531	6,982
Par	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	35	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	36	71

Source:[1]

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

6,982 yards (6,384 m), par 71 - 1979 U.S. Open 6,919 yards (6,327 m), par 71 - 1957 U.S. Open 6,529 yards (5,970 m), par 71 - 1931 U.S. Open 6,569 yards (6,007 m), par 71 - 1920 U.S. Open

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 7, 1986

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	65	−6
T2	Phil Blackmar	United States	67	−4
	Craig Stadler	United States
T4	Ronnie Black	United States	68	−3
	Wayne Grady	Australia
	Peter Jacobsen	United States
	Gary Koch	United States
	Wayne Levi	United States
T9	Fred Couples	United States	69	−2
	Bob Gilder	United States
	Jay Haas	United States
	Mike Hulbert	United States
	Bruce Lietzke	United States
	Larry Mize	United States
	Bruce Lietzke	United States
	Gene Sauers	United States
	Bobby Wadkins	United States

Source:[9]

Second round

Friday, August 8, 1986

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	65-68=133	−9
T2	Mike Hulbert	United States	69-68=137	−5
	Payne Stewart	United States	70-67=137
T3	Peter Jacobsen	United States	68-70=138	−4
	Jack Nicklaus	United States	70-68=138
	Jim Thorpe	United States	71-67=138
6	Ronnie Black	United States	68-71=139	−3
T3	Phil Blackmar	United States	67-73=140	−2
	Bruce Lietzke	United States	69-71=140
	Scott Simpson	United States	70-70=140

Source:[10]

Third round

Saturday, August 9, 1986

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	65-68-69=202	−11
2	Bob Tway	United States	72-70-64=206	−7
3	Peter Jacobsen	United States	68-70-70=208	−5
T4	Donnie Hammond	United States	70-71-68=209	−4
	Payne Stewart	United States	70-67-72=209
T6	Bruce Lietzke	United States	69-71-70=210	−3
	Jack Nicklaus	United States	70-68-72=210
T8	David Frost	South Africa	70-73-68=211	−2
	Mike Hulbert	United States	69-68-74=211
	Jim Thorpe	United States	71-67-73=211
	D. A. Weibring	United States	71-72-68=211

Final round

Sunday, August 10, 1986
Monday, August 11, 1986

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Bob Tway	United States	72-70-64-70=276	−8	140,000
2	Greg Norman	Australia	65-68-69-76=278	−6	80,000
3	Peter Jacobsen	United States	68-70-70-71=279	−5	60,000
4	D. A. Weibring	United States	71-72-68-69=280	−4	42,865
T5	Bruce Lietzke	United States	69-71-70-71=281	−3	32,500
	Payne Stewart	United States	70-67-72-72=281
T7	David Graham	Australia	75-69-71-67=282	−2	20,833
	Mike Hulbert	United States	69-68-74-71=282
	Jim Thorpe	United States	71-67-73-71=282
10	Doug Tewell	United States	73-71-68-71=283	−1	15,000

Source:[11]

Scorecard

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4
Tway	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8
Norman	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−10	−10	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:[2]

Video

• YouTube – Bob Tway wins the 1986 PGA Championship

References

1. "How they played Inverness: Greg Norman's card". Toledo Blade. Ohio. August 8, 1986. p. 17.
2. "Scorecard for Tway, Norman". Toledo Blade. Ohio. August 12, 1986. p. 22.
3. "Tournament Info for: 1986 PGA Championship". PGA.com. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
4. Hackenberg, Dave (August 11, 1986). "Downpour scores a birdie on Inverness field". Toledo Blade. Ohio. p. 20.
5. "The shot that won the PGA". Toledo Blade. Ohio. August 12, 1986. p. 1.
6. McDermott, Barry (August 18, 1986). "Out of a bunker into history". Sports Illustrated. p. 20.
7. "PGA Tour Statistics". Toledo Blade. Ohio. August 5, 1986. p. 21.
8. Shanahan, Hal (August 12, 1986). "Members smiling, though Inverness par now sub-par". Toledo Blade. Ohio. p. 22.
9. "A record round one for Norman". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. August 8, 1986. p. 1D.
10. "Norman in charge but Nicklaus close". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. August 9, 1986. p. 1D.
11. "1986 PGA Championship". databasegolf.com. Retrieved August 19, 2013.

External links

• About.com – 1986 PGA Championship
• PGA.com – 1986 PGA Championship