1993 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
The 1993 PGA Championship was the 75th time the tournament was played. It was the winner's only major trophy, and Paul Azinger got that trophy via a playoff. For that playoff loser, this was the fourth of the four majors at which he lost in extra holes.
Winner: Paul Azinger, 272
Where it was played: Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio
Tournament dates: August 12-15, 1993
Leader after first round: Scott Simpson, 64
Leader after second round: Vijay Singh, 131
Leader after third round: Greg Norman, 203
What Happened in the 1993 PGA Championship
The winner of the 75th anniversary PGA Championship tournament was Paul Azinger in a playoff over Greg Norman. Norman was the third-round leader, with Azinger one stroke behind him. But Azinger made four birdies over the final seven holes of the final round to catch Norman, then beat him in the sudden-death playoff with a par on the second extra hole.This was Azinger's 11th career win on the PGA Tour. But at the end of the year, he was diagnosed with cancer. Although he returned to the tour and in 2000 even won another tournament, his victory here proved to be Azinger's only major championship win.
For Norman, losing in extra holes at a major championship had a familiar ring to it — it had already happened to him at each of the other three majors. Although Norman also won two majors, he lost an 18-hole playoff at the 1984 U.S. Open, a sudden-death playoff at the 1987 Masters and a 4-hole aggregate playoff at the 1989 British Open. When Azinger beat him in sudden death in the 1993 PGA Championship playoff, Norman joined Craig Wood as the only golfers to lose in extra holes at all four professional majors.
Norman lost three strokes on Holes 6 and 7 in the final round, with a double bogey on the sixth and bogey on the seventh. He birdied the eighth hole and had three birdies on the back nine, so he righted the ship to shoot 69. But Azinger birdied holes 12, 13 and 14, plus the 17th, while shooting a course-record 30 on the back nine. Azinger's 68 gave him a final score of 12-under 272. The playoff ended when Norman three-putted from 20 feet on the second extra hole.
Tom Watson was one stroke off Norman's 54-hole lead, and finished in fifth place. The PGA Championship is the only major Watson never won, and he didn't get this close again. Hubert Green, 1985 PGA Championship winner, tied for 51st place; it was the last time he made the cut in a major.
1993 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Paul Azinger | 69-66-69-68—272 |
| Greg Norman | 68-68-67-69—272 |
| Nick Faldo | 68-68-69-68—273 |
| Vijay Singh | 68-63-73-70—274 |
| Tom Watson | 69-65-70-72—276 |
| John Cook | 72-66-68-71—277 |
| Bob Estes | 69-66-69-73—277 |
| Dudley Hart | 66-68-71-72—277 |
| Nolan Henke | 72-70-67-68—277 |
| Scott Hoch | 74-68-68-67—277 |
| Hale Irwin | 68-69-67-73—277 |
| Phil Mickelson | 67-71-69-70—277 |
| Scott Simpson | 64-70-71-72—277 |
| Steve Elkington | 67-66-74-71—278 |
| Brad Faxon | 70-70-65-73—278 |
| Bruce Fleisher | 69-74-67-68—278 |
| Gary Hallberg | 70-69-68-71—278 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 65-68-71-74—278 |
| Richard Zokol | 66-71-71-70—278 |
| Jay Haas | 69-68-70-72—279 |
| Eduardo Romero | 67-67-74-71—279 |
| Lee Janzen | 70-68-71-72—281 |
| Jim McGovern | 71-67-69-74—281 |
| Frank Nobilo | 69-66-74-72—281 |
| Gene Sauers | 68-74-70-69—281 |
| Greg Twiggs | 70-69-70-72—281 |
| Ian Woosnam | 70-71-68-72—281 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 71-67-74-70—282 |
| Billy Mayfair | 68-73-70-71—282 |
| Loren Roberts | 67-67-76-72—282 |
| Fulton Allem | 70-71-70-72—283 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 68-70-77-68—283 |
| Fred Couples | 70-68-71-74—283 |
| Mike Hulbert | 67-72-72-72—283 |
| Stu Ingraham | 74-69-71-69—283 |
| Wayne Levi | 69-73-66-75—283 |
| Davis Love III | 70-72-72-69—283 |
| Mark McCumber | 67-72-75-69—283 |
| Craig Parry | 70-73-68-72—283 |
| Nick Price | 74-66-72-71—283 |
| Hal Sutton | 69-72-70-72—283 |
| Tom Wargo | 71-70-71-71—283 |
| Fuzzy Zoeller | 72-70-71-70—283 |
| Russ Cochran | 69-74-70-71—284 |
| Dan Forsman | 67-75-70-72—284 |
| Fred Funk | 72-66-76-70—284 |
| John Huston | 68-69-75-72—284 |
| Joe Ozaki | 73-68-66-77—284 |
| Payne Stewart | 71-70-70-73—284 |
| D.A. Weibring | 68-74-72-70—284 |
| John Daly | 71-68-73-73—285 |
| Hubert Green | 70-71-69-75—285 |
| Andrew Magee | 71-72-74-68—285 |
| Jeff Maggert | 72-69-71-73—285 |
| Peter Senior | 69-70-70-76—285 |
| Rick Fehr | 70-71-72-73—286 |
| Tom Kite | 73-69-71-73—286 |
| Sandy Lyle | 69-73-70-74—286 |
| Larry Nelson | 73-67-74-72—286 |
| Jose Maria Olazabal | 73-69-73-71—286 |
| Michael Allen | 73-70-75-69—287 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 70-70-73-74—287 |
| Donnie Hammond | 73-70-68-76—287 |
| Jeff Sluman | 74-69-72-72—287 |
| Mike Standly | 72-71-68-76—287 |
| Ian Baker-Finch | 73-69-70-76—288 |
| Mark Wiebe | 74-69-73-73—289 |
| Bob Ford | 70-71-78-71—290 |
| Rocco Mediate | 70-73-74-73—290 |
| Steve Pate | 73-70-72-77—292 |
| Kevin Burton | 69-73-76-76—294 |
| Barry Lane | 67-74-77-76—294 |
| Bob Borowicz | 72-71-80-72—295 |
| John Adams | 72-70-76-78—296 |
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