1975 Tournament Players Championship


The 1975 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Texas on the PGA Tour, held at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. This was the second Tournament Players Championship; led wire-to-wire and finished three strokes ahead of runner-up Dave Stockton. Defending champion Jack Nicklaus opened with 67 but finished seventeen strokes behind, tied for eighteenth.
The first two Tournament Players Championships were played in late summer; this edition was two weeks after the PGA Championship at Firestone, won by Nicklaus. The next TPC was held just six months later, in south Florida in late February, before the majors.

Venue

This was the only Tournament Players Championship held in Texas; the first was in Georgia in 1974 and it relocated to Florida in 1976. Colonial Country Club has hosted an annual event on the PGA Tour since 1946 and was the site of the U.S. Open in 1941.

Past champions in the field

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 21, 1975
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Al Geiberger66−4
T2Bob Dickson67−3
T2Hale Irwin67−3
T2Jack Nicklaus67−3
T5Bud Allin68−2
T5Jim Wiechers68−2
T5Mike Wynn68−2
T8John Mahaffey69−1
T8Andy North69−1
T8Bill Rogers69−1
T8Mason Rudolph69−1
T8John Schlee69−1
T8Larry Ziegler69−1

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Second round

Friday, August 22, 1975
Saturday, August 23, 1975
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Al Geiberger66-68=134−6
T2Bob Dickson67-69=136−4
T2Hubert Green71-65=136−4
T2Dave Stockton72-64=136−4
5John Schlee69-68=137−3
T6Hale Irwin67-72=139+1
T6Bill Rogers69-70=139+1
T6Mason Rudolph69-70=139+1
T9Randy Erskine71-69=140E
T9Larry Ziegler69-71=140E

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Third round

Saturday, August 23, 1975
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Al Geiberger66-68-67=201−9
2Dave Stockton72-64-68=204−6
3Hubert Green71-65-70=206−4
4Bob Dickson67-69-72=208−2
T5Charles Coody73-70-68=211+1
T5Hale Irwin67-72-72=211+1
T5Mason Rudolph69-70-72=211+1
T8Bud Allin72-72-68=212+2
T8Jack Nicklaus67-75-70=212+2
T8Joe Porter72-72-68=212+2

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Final round

Sunday, August 24, 1975
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Al Geiberger66-68-67-69=270−1050,000
2Dave Stockton72-64-68-69=273−728,500
3Hubert Green71-65-70-69=275−517,750
T4Bob Murphy73-69-71-68=281+110,333
T4Bob Dickson67-69-72-73=281+110,333
T4Mason Rudolph69-70-72-70=281+110,333
7Hale Irwin67-72-72-72=283+38,000
T8Joe Porter72-72-68-72=284+46,792
T8Tom Watson73-69-75-67=284+46,792
T8Bobby Wadkins76-69-68-71=284+46,792

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