1993 PGA Championship


The 1993 PGA Championship was the 75th PGA Championship, held August 12–15 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
Paul Azinger won his only major title on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Greg Norman. Azinger birdied four of the last seven holes to get into the playoff. Norman, the 1993 Open champion, joined Craig Wood as the only players to lose playoffs in all four major championships. It was the fifth playoff under the sudden-death format at the PGA Championship, first used in 1977.
Norman was attempting to become the first player to win the Open Championship and PGA Championship in the same year since Walter Hagen in 1924. It was accomplished the following year by Nick Price, and later by Tiger Woods in 2000 and 2006, Pádraig Harrington in 2008 and Rory McIlroy in 2014.
It was the sixth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the PGA Championship in 1986 and four U.S. Opens. Norman was also the British Open champion and PGA runner-up in 1986, when Bob Tway holed out from a greenside bunker at the 72nd hole for birdie. Forced to sink his chip to tie, Norman ran it ten feet past and bogeyed.
Tom Watson, age 43, was in search of a PGA Championship win to complete a career grand slam. He was a stroke behind after 54 holes, but bogeyed three of the first five holes and finished four strokes back in fifth. Watson later had top ten finishes in 1994 and 2000, but never won the title.

Course layout

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards3983851944664092104525544203,4883633781705154484654094353543,5377,025
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 12, 1993
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Scott Simpson64−7
2Lanny Wadkins65−6
T3Dudley Hart66−5
T3Richard Zokol66−5
T5Steve Elkington67−4
T5Dan Forsman67−4
T5Robert Gamez67−4
T5Mike Hulbert67−4
T5Barry Lane67−4
T5Mark McCumber67−4
T5Phil Mickelson67−4
T5Loren Roberts67−4
T5Eduardo Romero67−4

Second round

Friday, August 13, 1993
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Vijay Singh68-63=131−11
T2Steve Elkington67-66=133−9
T2Lanny Wadkins65-68=133−9
T4Dudley Hart66-68=134−8
T4Eduardo Romero67-67=134−8
T4Scott Simpson64-70=134−8
T4Tom Watson69-65=134−8
T8Paul Azinger69-66=135−7
T8Bob Estes69-66=135−7
T8Frank Nobilo69-66=135−7

Third round

Saturday, August 14, 1993
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Greg Norman68-68-67=203−10
T2Paul Azinger69-66-69=204−9
T2Bob Estes69-66-69=204−9
T2Hale Irwin68-69-67=204−9
T2Vijay Singh68-63-73=204−9
T2Lanny Wadkins65-68-71=204−9
T2Tom Watson69-65-70=204−9
T8Nick Faldo68-68-69=205−8
T8Brad Faxon70-70-65=205−8
T8Dudley Hart66-68-71=205−8
T8Scott Simpson64-70-71=205−8

Final round

Sunday, August 15, 1993
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
T1Paul Azinger69-66-69-68=272−12Playoff
T1Greg Norman68-68-67-69=272−12Playoff
3Nick Faldo68-68-69-68=273−11105,000
4Vijay Singh68-63-73-70=274−1090,000
5Tom Watson69-65-70-72=276−875,000
T6John Cook72-66-68-71=277−747,813
T6Bob Estes69-66-69-73=277−747,813
T6Dudley Hart66-68-71-72=277−747,813
T6Nolan Henke72-70-67-68=277−747,813
T6Scott Hoch74-68-68-67=277−747,813
T6Hale Irwin68-69-67-73=277−747,813
T6Phil Mickelson67-71-69-70=277−747,813
T6Scott Simpson64-70-71-72=277−747,813

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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
Azinger−9−9−9−9−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−9−10−11−11−11−12−12
Norman−10−10−11−11−11−9−8−9−9−9−10−10−11−11−11−12−12−12
Faldo−8−8−8−8−8−8−9−10−10−10−10−10−11−11−11−11−11−11
Singh−9−8−8−9−9−9−9−10−10−10−10−10−11−11−11−10−10−10
Watson−8−8−7−8−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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Playoff

The sudden-death playoff began on the 18th hole, a par-4. Both narrowly missed birdie putts and tapped in for pars, and went to the next hole, the 10th at. Again both hit the fairway and the green. Norman's downhill birdie attempt ended four feet short, and Azinger's from seven feet lipped out, and he tapped in for par. Norman's attempt to save par also rimmed out, and the playoff was over.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Paul Azinger4-4E300,000
2Greg Norman4-x+1155,000