1986 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
The 1986 PGA Championship was the 68th edition of the tournament. A famous, final-hole, hole-out produced the champion, and helped produce Greg Norman's image as a hard-luck loser.
Winner: Bob Tway, 276
Where it was played: Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio
Tournament dates: August 7-11, 1986
Leader after first round: Greg Norman, 65
Leader after second round: Greg Norman, 133
Leader after third round: Greg Norman, 202
What Happened at the 1986 PGA Championship
The year of 1986 was a great one for Greg Norman in one way, and very disappointing in another. The good news: He won the 1986 British Open. The bad news: He held the third-round leads at The Masters, U.S. Open and at this PGA Championship, but didn't win any of those.At the 1986 PGA Championship, Norman started the final round with a 4-stroke lead over Bob Tway, a lead built on the strength of a first-round 65 followed by rounds of 68 and 69. But The tournament is best-remembered for what happened on the final hole: Tway blasted out from a greenside bunker and the ball disappeared into the cup for a hole-out birdie. That birdie gave Tway the win.
Tway was nine strokes behind Norman after 36 holes. But in the third round, Tway fired a 64, which tied the tournament record at the time for lowest third-round score. That moved him into second place, four behind Norman. And Tway was still four behind Norman after the first nine holes of the final round. But Norman made a double bogey on the 11th and a bogey on the 14th. Tway and Norman were tied at that point, and remained so until Tway's last-hole hole-out. In that final round, Tway shot 70 to Norman's 76.
Tway was in his second season on the PGA Tour, and what a sophomore season it was. He won four times, the PGA title being the last of those four. Tway won only four more times over the course of his long PGA Tour career. But his hole-out bunker shot here still makes highlight reels (especially his leaping-for-joy reaction), and he holds the distinction of being the first player in the PGA Championship's stroke-play era to birdie the tournament's 72nd hole for the win.
Norman's achievement of leading all four majors after three rounds has come to be known as the "Saturday Slam." Norman had two other wins on the PGA Tour (in addition to his Open Championship victory) in 1986, and led the Tour in money. It was Tway, however, who was named PGA Player of the Year.
Davis Love III, who went on to win the 1997 PGA Championship, played in his very first major championship here. He made the cut and finished tied for 47th place.
1986 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Bob Tway | 72-70-64-70—276 |
| Greg Norman | 65-68-69-76—278 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 68-70-70-71—279 |
| D.A. Weibring | 71-72-68-69—280 |
| Bruce Lietzke | 69-71-70-71—281 |
| Payne Stewart | 70-67-72-72—281 |
| Jim Thorpe | 71-67-73-71—282 |
| Mike Hulbert | 69-68-74-71—282 |
| David Graham | 75-69-71-67—282 |
| Doug Tewell | 73-71-68-71—283 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 72-73-72-67—284 |
| Lonnie Nielsen | 73-69-72-70—284 |
| Lee Trevino | 71-74-69-70—284 |
| Donnie Hammond | 70-71-68-75—284 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 71-75-70-68—284 |
| Tom Watson | 72-69-72-72—285 |
| Tony Sills | 71-72-69-73—285 |
| Chip Beck | 71-73-71-70—285 |
| Don Pooley | 71-74-69-71—285 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 70-68-72-75—285 |
| Corey Pavin | 71-72-70-73—286 |
| Hal Sutton | 73-71-70-72—286 |
| Ronnie Black | 68-71-74-73—286 |
| David Frost | 70-73-68-75—286 |
| Wayne Grady | 68-76-71-71—286 |
| Ken Green | 71-72-71-73—287 |
| Tom Kite | 72-73-71-71—287 |
| Dan Pohl | 71-71-74-71—287 |
| Hale Irwin | 76-70-73-68—287 |
| Craig Stadler | 67-74-73-74—288 |
| Calvin Peete | 72-73-69-74—288 |
| Ian Woosnam | 72-70-75-71—288 |
| Wayne Levi | 68-73-71-76—288 |
| Gene Sauers | 69-73-70-76—288 |
| Jeff Sluman | 70-71-76-71—288 |
| Brett Upper | 71-73-72-73—289 |
| Buddy Gardner | 72-73-71-73—289 |
| Isao Aoki | 73-69-74-73—289 |
| Fred Couples | 69-73-72-75—289 |
| Mark Lye | 72-71-70-76—289 |
| Jodie Mudd | 72-73-73-72—290 |
| Scott Simpson | 70-70-75-75—290 |
| Scott Hoch | 72-70-75-73—290 |
| Hubert Green | 75-70-74-71—290 |
| Mike Reid | 71-73-70-76—290 |
| Bobby Wadkins | 69-74-70-77—290 |
| Dave Barr | 71-73-73-74—291 |
| Roger Maltbie | 73-70-74-74—291 |
| Mike Donald | 74-69-73-75—291 |
| Tommy Nakajima | 71-73-71-76—291 |
| Davis Love III | 70-72-72-77—291 |
| Mark Wiebe | 75-67-72-77—291 |
| Mike Sullivan | 72-73-74-73—292 |
| Joey Sindelar | 74-72-73-73—292 |
| Bob Gilder | 69-75-73-75—292 |
| Dave Stockton | 70-75-74-73—292 |
| John Cook | 71-72-75-74—292 |
| Larry Mize | 69-76-75-72—292 |
| Clarence Rose | 73-71-72-76—292 |
| Andy Bean | 74-70-72-76—292 |
| Steve Pate | 76-69-71-76—292 |
| Jay Haas | 69-77-74-72—292 |
| Phil Blackmar | 67-73-79-73—292 |
| Mark McCumber | 71-74-68-79—292 |
| James Blair | 72-74-72-75—293 |
| Gary Koch | 68-77-74-75—294 |
| Lennie Clements | 71-75-72-77—295 |
| David Edwards | 72-69-76-79—296 |
| Bob Murphy | 73-73-74-77—297 |
| Ken Brown | 73-73-72-80—298 |
| Denis Watson | 71-74-77-77—299 |
| J.C. Snead | 70-76-75-79—300 |
Previous and next:
1985 PGA Championship - 1987 PGA Championship