1996 PGA Tour


The 1996 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to October 28. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Phil Mickelson won the most tournaments, four, and there were 13 first-time winners. The season notably featured the first Tour win for Tiger Woods. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1996 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.
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Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Tom Lehman69.32
2Fred Couples69.57
3Mark O'Meara69.69
4Tom Watson69.73
5Greg Norman69.76

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Tom Lehman1,780,159222
2Phil Mickelson1,697,799214
3Mark Brooks1,429,396293
4Steve Stricker1,383,739222
5Mark O'Meara1,255,749212

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Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Greg Norman10,484,06518
2Tom Kite9,657,32519
3Fred Couples8,437,10212
4Corey Pavin8,026,84314
5Payne Stewart7,926,7739

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Awards