| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 7–11, 1986 |
| Location | Toledo, Ohio |
| Course(s) | Inverness Club |
| Organized by | PGA of America |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 6,982 yards (6,384 m) [1] [2] |
| Field | 150 players, 72 after cut [3] |
| Cut | 146 (+4) |
| Prize fund | $800,000 |
| Winner's share | $140,000 |
| Champion | |
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| 276 (−8) | |
The 1986 PGA Championship was the 68th PGA Championship, held August 7–11 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Bob Tway won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman, the 54-hole leader.
Heavy rains on Sunday stopped play for the day in mid-afternoon. In the final group, Norman and Tway completed just one hole of their final round and resumed play on Monday afternoon. [4]
Norman started the round with a four-shot lead and held that margin through the front nine. After a double bogey at 11 and a bogey at 14, the two were tied. They halved the next three holes at par and were tied at the 72nd tee. Tway put his approach shot in a greenside bunker, while Norman was just off the green on the fringe, 25 feet (8 m) out. Tway improbably holed out for birdie [5] and Norman's attempt to tie missed, as did his par-saving putt. Norman led all four majors in 1986 after the third round, but won only the Open. [6]
Entering the championship, Norman was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 1986, with Tway in second place. [7]
This was the fifth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the U.S. Open in 1920, 1931, 1957, and 1979, and was the first in which the winning score was under-par; the previous best was even-par in 1979 by Hale Irwin. [8] The PGA Championship returned in 1993.
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yards | 398 | 385 | 190 | 466 | 401 | 211 | 452 | 528 | 420 | 3,451 | 363 | 378 | 162 | 523 | 448 | 458 | 409 | 431 | 354 | 3,531 | 6,982 |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 71 |
Source: [1]
Lengths of the course for previous major championships:
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Thursday, August 7, 1986
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
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| 1 | | 65 | −6 |
| T2 | | 67 | −4 |
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| T4 | | 68 | −3 |
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| T9 | | 69 | −2 |
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Source: [9]
Friday, August 8, 1986
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 65-68=133 | −9 |
| T2 | | 69-68=137 | −5 |
| | 70-67=137 | ||
| T3 | | 68-70=138 | −4 |
| | 70-68=138 | ||
| | 71-67=138 | ||
| 6 | | 68-71=139 | −3 |
| T7 | | 67-73=140 | −2 |
| | 69-71=140 | ||
| | 70-70=140 |
Source: [10]
Saturday, August 9, 1986
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 65-68-69=202 | −11 |
| 2 | | 72-70-64=206 | −7 |
| 3 | | 68-70-70=208 | −5 |
| T4 | | 70-71-68=209 | −4 |
| | 70-67-72=209 | ||
| T6 | | 69-71-70=210 | −3 |
| | 70-68-72=210 | ||
| T8 | | 70-73-68=211 | −2 |
| | 69-68-74=211 | ||
| | 71-67-73=211 | ||
| | 71-72-68=211 |
Sunday, August 10, 1986
Monday, August 11, 1986
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 72-70-64-70=276 | −8 | 140,000 |
| 2 | | 65-68-69-76=278 | −6 | 80,000 |
| 3 | | 68-70-70-71=279 | −5 | 60,000 |
| 4 | | 71-72-68-69=280 | −4 | 42,865 |
| T5 | | 69-71-70-71=281 | −3 | 32,500 |
| | 70-67-72-72=281 | |||
| T7 | | 75-69-71-67=282 | −2 | 20,833 |
| | 69-68-74-71=282 | |||
| | 71-67-73-71=282 | |||
| 10 | | 73-71-68-71=283 | −1 | 15,000 |
Source: [11]
| Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey |
Final round
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| | −7 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −7 | −7 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −8 |
| | −11 | −11 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −6 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source: [2]
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