1993 PGA Championship

1993 PGA Championship

Tournament information
Dates	August 12–15, 1993
Location	Toledo, Ohio
Course(s)	Inverness Club
Organized by	PGA of America
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,025 yards (6,424 m)
Field	151 players, 74 after cut[1]
Cut	143 (+1)
Prize fund	$1.7 million
Winner's share	$300,000
Champion
Paul Azinger
272 (−12), playoff
«1992 1994»

Inverness
Club

Location in the United States

The 1993 PGA Championship was the 75th PGA Championship, held August 12–15 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

Paul Azinger won his only major title on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Greg Norman.^[2][3] Azinger birdied four of the last seven holes to get into the playoff.^[4] Norman, the 1993 Open champion, joined Craig Wood as the only players to lose playoffs in all four major championships.^[5] It was the fifth playoff under the sudden-death format at the PGA Championship, first used in 1977.

Norman was attempting to become the first player to win the Open Championship and PGA Championship in the same year since Walter Hagen in 1924. It was accomplished the following year by Nick Price, and later by Tiger Woods in 2000 and 2006, Pádraig Harrington in 2008 and Rory McIlroy in 2014.

It was the sixth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the PGA Championship in 1986 and four U.S. Opens (1920, 1931, 1957, and 1979). Norman was also the British Open champion and PGA runner-up in 1986, when Bob Tway holed out from a greenside bunker at the 72nd hole for birdie. Forced to sink his chip to tie, Norman ran it ten feet (3 m) past and bogeyed.^[6]

Tom Watson, age 43, was in search of a PGA Championship win to complete a career grand slam. He was a stroke behind after 54 holes, but bogeyed three of the first five holes and finished four strokes back in fifth. Watson later had top ten finishes in 1994 and 2000, but never won the title.

Course layout

Source:^[7]

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Lanny Wadkins	United States	1977	65	68	71	74	278	−6	T14
Nick Price	Zimbabwe	1992	74	66	72	71	283	−1	T31
Hal Sutton	United States	1983	69	72	70	72	283	−1	T31
Payne Stewart	United States	1989	71	70	70	73	284	E	T44
Hubert Green	United States	1985	70	71	69	75	285	+1	T51
John Daly	United States	1991	71	68	73	73	285	+1	T51
Larry Nelson	United States	1981, 1987	73	67	74	72	286	+2	T56
Jeff Sluman	United States	1988	74	69	72	72	287	+3	T61

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Bob Tway	United States	1986	70	74	144	+2
Jack Nicklaus	United States	1963, 1971, 1973 1975, 1980	71	73	144	+2
Raymond Floyd	United States	1969, 1982	71	73	144	+2
Wayne Grady	Australia	1990	75	70	145	+3
John Mahaffey	United States	1978	73	76	149	+7
David Graham	Australia	1979	76	81	157	+15

Source:^[8]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 12, 1993

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Scott Simpson	United States	64	−7
2	Lanny Wadkins	United States	65	−6
T3	Dudley Hart	United States	66	−5
	Richard Zokol	Canada
T5	Steve Elkington	Australia	67	−4
	Dan Forsman	United States
	Robert Gamez	United States
	Mike Hulbert	United States
	Barry Lane	England
	Mark McCumber	United States
	Phil Mickelson	United States
	Loren Roberts	United States
	Eduardo Romero	Argentina

Second round

Friday, August 13, 1993

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-63=131	−11
T2	Steve Elkington	Australia	67-66=133	−9
	Lanny Wadkins	United States	65-68=133
T4	Dudley Hart	United States	66-68=134	−8
	Eduardo Romero	Argentina	67-67=134
	Scott Simpson	United States	64-70=134
	Tom Watson	United States	69-65=134
T8	Paul Azinger	United States	69-66=135	−7
	Bob Estes	United States	69-66=135
	Frank Nobilo	New Zealand	69-66=135

Third round

Saturday, August 14, 1993

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	68-68-67=203	−10
T2	Paul Azinger	United States	69-66-69=204	−9
	Bob Estes	United States	69-66-69=204
	Hale Irwin	United States	68-69-67=204
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-63-73=204
	Lanny Wadkins	United States	65-68-71=204
	Tom Watson	United States	69-65-70=204
T8	Nick Faldo	England	68-68-69=205	−8
	Brad Faxon	United States	70-70-65=205
	Dudley Hart	United States	66-68-71=205
	Scott Simpson	United States	64-70-71=205

Final round

Sunday, August 15, 1993

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Paul Azinger	United States	69-66-69-68=272	−12	Playoff
	Greg Norman	Australia	68-68-67-69=272
3	Nick Faldo	England	68-68-69-68=273	−11	105,000
4	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-63-73-70=274	−10	90,000
5	Tom Watson	United States	69-65-70-72=276	−8	75,000
T6	John Cook	United States	72-66-68-71=277	−7	47,813
	Bob Estes	United States	69-66-69-73=277
	Dudley Hart	United States	66-68-71-72=277
	Nolan Henke	United States	72-70-67-68=277
	Scott Hoch	United States	74-68-68-67=277
	Hale Irwin	United States	68-69-67-73=277
	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-71-69-70=277
	Scott Simpson	United States	64-70-71-72=277

Source:^[8]

Scorecard

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
Azinger	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12
Norman	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−9	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12
Faldo	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11
Singh	−9	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10
Watson	−8	−8	−7	−8	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[5]

Playoff

The sudden-death playoff began on the 18th hole, a 354-yard (324 m) par-4. Both narrowly missed birdie putts and tapped in for pars, and went to the next hole, the 10th at 363 yards (332 m). Again both hit the fairway and the green. Norman's downhill 20-foot (6 m) birdie attempt ended four feet (1.3 m) short, and Azinger's from seven feet (2.1 m) lipped out, and he tapped in for par. Norman's attempt to save par also rimmed out, and the playoff was over.^[5]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Paul Azinger	United States	4-4	E	300,000
2	Greg Norman	Australia	4-x	+1	155,000

• Sudden-death playoff was played on holes 18 and 10, both par fours.^[5]

References

External links

• About.com: 1993 PGA Championship
• PGA.com – 1993 PGA Championship
• Yahoo! Sports: 1993 PGA Championship leaderboard

Coordinates: 41°39′07″N 83°39′04″W / 41.652°N 83.651°W / 41.652; -83.651