1997 PGA Tour


The 1997 PGA Tour season was played from January 9 to November 2. The season consisted of 45 official money events. Tiger Woods won the most tournaments, four, and there were six first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1997 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.
DateTournamentLocationWinnerScorePurse 1st prize
Jan 12Mercedes ChampionshipsCalifornia Tiger Woods 202 1,200,000216,000
Jan 19Bob Hope Chrysler ClassicCalifornia John Cook 327 1,500,000270,000
Jan 26Phoenix OpenArizona Steve Jones 258 1,500,000270,000
Feb 2AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-AmCalifornia Mark O'Meara 268 1,900,000342,000
Feb 9Buick InvitationalCalifornia Mark O'Meara 275 1,500,000270,000
Feb 16United Airlines Hawaiian OpenHawaii Paul Stankowski 271 1,200,000216,000
Feb 23Tucson Chrysler ClassicArizona Jeff Sluman 275 1,300,000234,000
Mar 2Nissan OpenCalifornia Nick Faldo 272 1,400,000252,000
Mar 9Doral-Ryder OpenFlorida Steve Elkington 275 1,800,000324,000
Mar 16Honda ClassicFlorida Stuart Appleby 274 1,500,000270,000
Mar 23Bay Hill InvitationalFlorida Phil Mickelson 272 1,500,000270,000
Mar 30The Players ChampionshipFlorida Steve Elkington 272 3,500,000630,000
Apr 6Freeport-McDermott ClassicLouisiana Brad Faxon 272 1,500,000270,000
Apr 13Masters TournamentGeorgia Tiger Woods 270 2,700,000486,000
Apr 20MCI ClassicSouth Carolina Nick Price 269 1,500,000270,000
Apr 27Greater Greensboro Chrysler ClassicNorth Carolina Frank Nobilo 274 1,900,000342,000
May 4Shell Houston OpenTexas Phil Blackmar 276 1,600,000288,000
May 11BellSouth ClassicGeorgia Scott McCarron 274 1,500,000270,000
May 18GTE Byron Nelson Golf ClassicTexas Tiger Woods 263 1,800,000324,000
May 25MasterCard ColonialTexas David Frost 265 1,600,000288,000
Jun 2Memorial TournamentOhio Vijay Singh 202 1,900,000342,000
Jun 8Kemper OpenMaryland Justin Leonard 274 1,500,000270,000
Jun 15U.S. OpenMaryland Ernie Els 276 2,600,000465,000
Jun 22Buick ClassicNew York Ernie Els 268 1,500,000270,000
Jun 29FedEx St. Jude ClassicTennessee Greg Norman 268 1,500,000270,000
Jul 6Motorola Western OpenIllinois Tiger Woods 275 2,000,000360,000
Jul 13Quad City ClassicIllinois David Toms 265 1,350,000243,000
Jul 20Deposit Guaranty Golf ClassicMississippi Billy Ray Brown 271 1,000,000180,000
Jul 20British OpenScotland Justin Leonard 272 2,680,000418,875
Jul 27Canon Greater Hartford OpenConnecticut Stewart Cink 267 1,500,000270,000
Aug 3Sprint InternationalColorado Phil Mickelson 48 1,700,000306,000
Aug 10Buick OpenMichigan Vijay Singh 273 1,500,000270,000
Aug 17PGA ChampionshipNew York Davis Love III 269 2,600,000470,000
Aug 24NEC World Series of GolfOhio Greg Norman 273 2,200,000396,000
Aug 24Greater Vancouver OpenCanada Mark Calcavecchia 265 1,500,000270,000
Aug 31Greater Milwaukee OpenWisconsin Scott Hoch 268 1,300,000234,000
Sep 7Bell Canadian OpenCanada Steve Jones 275 1,500,000270,000
Sep 14CVS Charity ClassicMassachusetts Loren Roberts 266 1,200,000216,000
Sep 21LaCantera Texas OpenTexas Tim Herron 271 1,400,000252,000
Sep 28B.C. OpenNew York Gabriel Hjertstedt 275 1,300,000234,000
Oct 5Buick ChallengeGeorgia Davis Love III 267 1,200,000216,000
Oct 12Michelob Championship at KingsmillVirginia David Duval 271 1,550,000279,000
Oct 19Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile ClassicFlorida David Duval 270 1,500,000270,000
Oct 26Las Vegas InvitationalNevada Bill Glasson 340 1,800,000324,000
Nov 2The Tour ChampionshipTexas David Duval 273 4,000,000720,000

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Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Nick Price68.98
2Tiger Woods69.10
3Greg Norman69.16
4Davis Love III69.47
5Tom Lehman69.62

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Tiger Woods2,066,833214
2David Duval1,885,308293
3Davis Love III1,635,953252
4Jim Furyk1,619,480270
5Justin Leonard1,587,531292

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Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Greg Norman11,910,51820
2Tom Kite10,286,17719
3Fred Couples8,885,48712
4Nick Price8,794,43116
5Mark O'Meara8,506,77414

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Awards