1999 PGA Tour


The 1999 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to November 7. The season consisted of 47 official money events. Tiger Woods led the tour with eight victories and there were nine first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.
After caddie Garland Dempsey collapsed at the Western Open in early July, the PGA Tour allowed male caddies, on a trial basis, to wear shorts on extremely hot days. Two years earlier, the USGA changed its policy and allowed caddies to wear shorts at the U.S. Open in June 1997. The shorts dispute had surfaced at the PGA Championship in August 1996 as a gender equity issue, as female caddies were allowed to wear them, but not males.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1999 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 10Mercedes ChampionshipsHawaii David Duval 266 2,600,000468,000
Jan 17Sony Open in HawaiiHawaii Jeff Sluman 271 2,600,000468,000
Jan 24Bob Hope Chrysler ClassicCalifornia David Duval 334 3,000,000540,000
Jan 31Phoenix OpenArizona Rocco Mediate 273 3,000,000540,000
Feb 7AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-AmCalifornia Payne Stewart 206 2,800,000504,000
Feb 14Buick InvitationalCalifornia Tiger Woods 266 2,700,000486,000
Feb 21Nissan OpenCalifornia Ernie Els 270 2,800,000504,000
Feb 28Touchstone Energy Tucson OpenArizona Gabriel Hjertstedt 276 2,750,000495,000
Feb 28WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play ChampionshipCalifornia Jeff Maggert 38 holes5,000,0001,000,000
Mar 7Doral-Ryder OpenFlorida Steve Elkington 275 3,000,000540,000
Mar 14Honda ClassicFlorida Vijay Singh 277 2,600,000468,000
Mar 21Bay Hill InvitationalFlorida Tim Herron 274 2,500,000450,000
Mar 28The Players ChampionshipFlorida David Duval 285 5,000,000900,000
Apr 4BellSouth ClassicGeorgia David Duval 270 2,500,000450,000
Apr 11Masters TournamentGeorgia José María Olazábal 280 4,000,000720,000
Apr 18MCI ClassicSouth Carolina Glen Day 274 2,500,000450,000
Apr 25Greater Greensboro Chrysler ClassicNorth Carolina Jesper Parnevik 265 2,600,000468,000
May 2Shell Houston OpenTexas Stuart Appleby 279 2,500,000450,000
May 9Compaq Classic of New OrleansLouisiana Carlos Franco 269 2,600,000468,000
May 16GTE Byron Nelson ClassicTexas Loren Roberts 262 3,000,000540,000
May 23MasterCard ColonialTexas Olin Browne 272 2,800,000504,000
May 30Kemper OpenMaryland Rich Beem 274 2,500,000450,000
Jun 6Memorial TournamentOhio Tiger Woods 273 2,550,000459,000
Jun 14FedEx St. Jude ClassicTennessee Ted Tryba 265 2,500,000450,000
Jun 20U.S. OpenNorth Carolina Payne Stewart 279 3,500,000625,000
Jun 27Buick ClassicNew York Duffy Waldorf 276 2,500,000450,000
Jul 4Motorola Western OpenIllinois Tiger Woods 273 2,500,000450,000
Jul 11Greater Milwaukee OpenWisconsin Carlos Franco 264 2,300,000414,000
Jul 18British OpenScotland Paul Lawrie 290 3,058,500546,805
Jul 25John Deere ClassicIllinois J. L. Lewis 261 2,000,000360,000
Aug 1Canon Greater Hartford OpenConnecticut Brent Geiberger 262 2,500,000450,000
Aug 8Buick OpenMichigan Tom Pernice, Jr. 270 2,400,000432,000
Aug 15PGA ChampionshipIllinois Tiger Woods 277 3,500,000630,000
Aug 22Sprint InternationalColorado David Toms 47 2,600,000468,000
Aug 29Reno-Tahoe OpenNevada Notah Begay III 274 2,750,000495,000
Aug 29WGC-NEC InvitationalOhio Tiger Woods 270 5,000,0001,000,000
Sep 5Air Canada ChampionshipCanada Mike Weir 266 2,500,000450,000
Sep 12Bell Canadian OpenCanada Hal Sutton 275 2,500,000450,000
Sep 20B.C. OpenNew York Brad Faxon 273 1,600,000288,000
Sep 26Westin Texas OpenTexas Duffy Waldorf 270 2,000,000360,000
Oct 3Buick ChallengeGeorgia David Toms 271 1,800,000324,000
Oct 10Michelob Championship at KingsmillVirginia Notah Begay III 274 2,500,000450,000
Oct 17Las Vegas InvitationalNevada Jim Furyk 331 2,500,000450,000
Oct 24National Car Rental Golf Classic DisneyFlorida Tiger Woods 271 2,500,000450,000
Oct 31The Tour ChampionshipTexas Tiger Woods 269 5,000,000900,000
Nov 1Southern Farm Bureau ClassicMississippi Brian Henninger 202 2,000,000360,000
Nov 7WGC-American Express ChampionshipSpain Tiger Woods 278 5,000,0001,000,000

Source:

Location of tournaments

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Tiger Woods68.43
2David Duval69.17
3Davis Love III69.37
4Justin Leonard69.59
5Hal Sutton69.66

Source:
Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Tiger Woods6,616,585218
2David Duval3,641,906214
3Davis Love III2,475,328230
4Vijay Singh2,283,233291
5Chris Perry2,145,707310

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Greg Norman12,507,32220
2Davis Love III12,487,46313
3Payne Stewart11,737,00811
4Nick Price11,386,23617
5Tiger Woods11,315,12815

Source:

Awards