1998 PGA Championship


The 1998 PGA Championship was the 80th PGA Championship, held August 13–16 at Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. Vijay Singh won the first of his three major championships, two strokes ahead of runner-up Steve Stricker.
This was only the tenth time the championship was played in the western half of the United States. This remains the last PGA Championship played in the West, with the next scheduled for 2020 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
It was the third major championship held in the Pacific Northwest, all PGA Championships. The previous two were match play events, held in Spokane in 1944 and Portland in 1946.
Sahalee was scheduled to host again in 2010, but the PGA of America reversed its decision in early 2005 and moved it to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

Course layout

South and North nines
Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards4065074153861954804214442133,4674015464581763744173772154753,4396,906
Par454434443354543444343570

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 13, 1998
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Tiger Woods66−4
T2Billy Andrade68−2
T2Paul Azinger68−2
T2Glen Day68−2
T2Bob Estes68−2
T2Bill Glasson68−2
T2Scott Gump68−2
T2Frank Lickliter68−2
T2Shigeki Maruyama68−2
T10Russ Cochran69−1
T10Trevor Dodds69−1
T10Steve Elkington69−1
T10Harrison Frazar69−1
T10Per-Ulrik Johansson69−1
T10Scott McCarron69−1
T10Mark O'Meara69−1
T10Kenny Perry69−1
T10Craig Stadler69−1
T10Steve Stricker69−1
T10Bob Tway69−1

Second round

Friday, August 14, 1998
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Vijay Singh70-66=136−4
T2Scott Gump68-69=137−3
T2Colin Montgomerie70-67=137−3
T2Steve Stricker69-68=137−3
T5Steve Elkington69-69=138−2
T5Brad Faxon70-68=138−2
T5Davis Love III70-68=138−2
T5Andrew Magee70-68=138−2
T5Tiger Woods66-72=138−2
T10John Cook71-68=139−1
T10Glen Day68-71=139−1
T10David Frost70-69=139−1
T10Frank Lickliter68-71=139−1
T10Mark O'Meara69-70=139−1

Third round

Saturday, August 15, 1998
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Vijay Singh70-66-67=203−7
T1Steve Stricker69-68-66=203−7
T3Steve Elkington69-69-69=207−3
T3Davis Love III70-68-69=207−3
T3Billy Mayfair73-67-67=207−3
T6Skip Kendall72-68-68=208−2
T6Frank Lickliter68-71-69=208−2
T6Mark O'Meara69-70-69=208−2
T6Tiger Woods66-72-70=208−2
T10Robert Allenby72-68-69=209−1
T10John Cook71-68-70=209−1
T10Scott Gump68-69-72=209−1
T10John Huston70-71-68=209−1
T10Greg Kraft71-73-65=209−1

Final round

Sunday, August 16, 1998
As 54-hole co-leaders at 203, Vijay Singh and Steve Stricker were in the final pairing at noon PDT, four shots ahead of the field. Stricker stayed within a stroke until the par-3 17th, where both tee shots found the same bunker. Singh saved par but Stricker couldn't, and both parred 18; Singh shot 68 to win his first major by two strokes. Steve Elkington, the 1995 champion, carded a 67 to finish in solo third, a stroke behind Stricker. Nick Price, the champion in 1992 and 1994, shot a bogey-free 65 to equal the course record.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Vijay Singh70-66-67-68=271−9540,000
2Steve Stricker69-68-66-70=273−7324,000
3Steve Elkington69-69-69-67=274−6204,000
T4Frank Lickliter68-71-69-68=276−4118,000
T4Mark O'Meara69-70-69-68=276−4118,000
T4Nick Price70-73-68-65=276−4118,000
T7Davis Love III70-68-69-70=277−389,500
T7Billy Mayfair73-67-67-70=277−389,500
9John Cook71-68-70-69=278−280,000
T10Skip Kendall72-68-68-71=279−169,000
T10Kenny Perry69-72-70-68=279−169,000
T10Tiger Woods66-72-70-71=279−169,000

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Scorecard

Final round
Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par454434443454344434
Singh−7−7−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8−9−8−8−9−9−9−9−9
Stricker−7−6−7−8−8−7−7−7−6−6−7−7−7−8−8−8−7−7
Elkington−3−3−4−4−4−4−4−3−4−4−5−5−5−6−6−6−7−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
BirdieBogey

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