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.
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.
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, out. Tway improbably holed out for birdie 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.
Entering the championship, Norman was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 1986, with Tway in second place.
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. The PGA Championship returned in 1993.

Course layout

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards3983851904664012114525284203,4513633781625234484584094313543,5316,982
Par443443454354435444443671

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Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 7, 1986
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Greg Norman65−6
T2Phil Blackmar67−4
T2Craig Stadler67−4
T4Ronnie Black68−3
T4Wayne Grady68−3
T4Peter Jacobsen68−3
T4Gary Koch68−3
T4Wayne Levi68−3
T9Fred Couples69−2
T9Bob Gilder69−2
T9Jay Haas69−2
T9Mike Hulbert69−2
T9Bruce Lietzke69−2
T9Larry Mize69−2
T9Bruce Lietzke69−2
T9Gene Sauers69−2
T9Bobby Wadkins69−2

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Second round

Friday, August 8, 1986
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Greg Norman65-68=133−9
T2Mike Hulbert69-68=137−5
T2Payne Stewart70-67=137−5
T3Peter Jacobsen68-70=138−4
T3Jack Nicklaus70-68=138−4
T3Jim Thorpe71-67=138−4
6Ronnie Black68-71=139−3
T3Phil Blackmar67-73=140−2
T3Bruce Lietzke69-71=140−2
T3Scott Simpson70-70=140−2

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Third round

Saturday, August 9, 1986
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Greg Norman65-68-69=202−11
2Bob Tway72-70-64=206−7
3Peter Jacobsen68-70-70=208−5
T4Donnie Hammond70-71-68=209−4
T4Payne Stewart70-67-72=209−4
T6Bruce Lietzke69-71-70=210−3
T6Jack Nicklaus70-68-72=210−3
T8David Frost70-73-68=211−2
T8Mike Hulbert69-68-74=211−2
T8Jim Thorpe71-67-73=211−2
T8D. A. Weibring71-72-68=211−2

Final round

Sunday, August 10, 1986
Monday, August 11, 1986
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Bob Tway72-70-64-70=276−8140,000
2Greg Norman65-68-69-76=278−680,000
3Peter Jacobsen68-70-70-71=279−560,000
4D. A. Weibring71-72-68-69=280−442,865
T5Bruce Lietzke69-71-70-71=281−332,500
T5Payne Stewart70-67-72-72=281−332,500
T7David Graham75-69-71-67=282−220,833
T7Mike Hulbert69-68-74-71=282−220,833
T7Jim Thorpe71-67-73-71=282−220,833
10Doug Tewell73-71-68-71=283−115,000

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Scorecard

Final round
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par443443454443544444
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
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