1996 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
The 1996 PGA Championship was the 78th time the tournament was played, and it required a playoff to crown the winner. Mark Brooks won his only major championship title in what turned out to be the last sudden-death playoff in the PGA Championship.
Winner: Mark Brooks, 277
Where it was played: Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky
Tournament dates: August 8-11, 1996
Leader after first round: Kenny Perry, 66
Leader after second round: Phil Mickelson, 134
Leader after third round: Russ Cochran, 205
What Happened in the 1996 PGA Championship
At Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky, Kenny Perry was playing very close to his hometown. And Perry shot a final-round 68 to force a playoff against Mark Brooks, who closed with a round of 70. But Perry's dream to win a major in Kentucky didn't come true; Brooks beat him on the first hole of the sudden-death playoff with a birdie.Brooks birdied the final hole of regulation to get into the playoff. Perry's drive in the playoff on the par-5 No. 18 found the rough, his next two strokes failed to get the ball out of the rough, and only on his fourth stroke did Perry reach the green.
Brooks' playoff drive was right down the middle, his 3-wood approach hit the green, and he two-putted for birdie and the championship.
Perry, a 14-time winner on the PGA Tour, also lost in a playoff at the 2009 Masters Tournament. He never won a major. Brooks finished his PGA Tour career with seven overall wins. He also lost in a major championship playoff at the 2001 U.S. Open.
The 1996 PGA Championship was the "coming out" for the Jack Nicklaus-designed Valhalla Golf Club. This was Valhalla's first time as the site of major championship. Valhalla has since hosted additional major events, including PGA Championships and a Ryder Cup.
The PGA of America soon switched away from the sudden-death playoff format to a three-hole, aggregate score playoff format. The new format was first used in the 2000 PGA Championship. That makes the Brooks-Perry playoff here the last time sudden death was used in the PGA Championship.
1996 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Mark Brooks | 68-70-69-70-277 |
| Kenny Perry | 66-72-71-68-277 |
| Tommy Tolles | 69-71-71-67-278 |
| Steve Elkington | 67-74-67-70-278 |
| Justin Leonard | 71-66-72-70-279 |
| Jesper Parnevik | 73-67-69-70-279 |
| Vijay Singh | 69-69-69-72-279 |
| Frank Nobilo | 69-72-71-68-280 |
| Per Johansson | 73-72-66-69-280 |
| Larry Mize | 71-70-69-70-280 |
| Lee Janzen | 68-71-71-70-280 |
| Nick Price | 68-71-69-72-280 |
| Phil Mickelson | 67-67-74-72-280 |
| Joey Sindelar | 73-72-69-67-281 |
| Tom Lehman | 71-71-69-70-281 |
| Mike Brisky | 71-69-69-72-281 |
| D.A. Weibring | 71-73-71-67-282 |
| Tom Watson | 69-71-73-69-282 |
| Brad Faxon | 72-68-73-69-282 |
| Jim Furyk | 70-70-73-69-282 |
| David Edwards | 69-71-72-70-282 |
| Greg Norman | 68-72-69-73-282 |
| Russ Cochran | 68-72-65-77-282 |
| Emlyn Aubrey | 69-74-72-68-283 |
| Miguel Jimenez | 71-71-71-70-283 |
| Steve Stricker | 73-72-72-67-284 |
| Fred Funk | 73-69-73-69-284 |
| Mark O'Meara | 71-70-74-69-284 |
| Corey Pavin | 71-74-70-69-284 |
| Curtis Strange | 73-70-68-73-284 |
| Paul Azinger | 70-75-71-69-285 |
| Michael Bradley | 73-72-70-70-285 |
| Patrick Burke | 71-72-69-73-285 |
| Tim Herron | 71-73-68-73-285 |
| Jay Haas | 72-71-69-73-285 |
| Ian Woosnam | 68-72-75-71-286 |
| Fuzzy Zoeller | 76-67-72-71-286 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 70-74-70-72-286 |
| David Ogrin | 75-70-68-73-286 |
| Rocco Mediate | 71-72-67-76-286 |
| Fred Couples | 74-68-74-71-287 |
| David Duval | 74-69-73-71-287 |
| Gil Morgan | 72-72-72-71-287 |
| Jeff Sluman | 72-72-72-71-287 |
| John Morse | 74-69-72-72-287 |
| Glen Day | 72-73-70-72-287 |
| John Cook | 69-75-74-70-288 |
| Paul Stankowski | 70-75-71-72-288 |
| Phil Blackmar | 71-74-71-72-288 |
| Scott McCarron | 69-72-74-73-288 |
| Brian Watts | 70-71-71-76-288 |
| John Adams | 72-71-75-71-289 |
| Bob Boyd | 71-71-75-72-289 |
| Costantino Rocca | 72-72-73-72-289 |
| Jim Gallagher | 73-70-74-72-289 |
| Lee Rinker | 73-71-73-72-289 |
| Alexander Cejka | 71-74-72-72-289 |
| Neal Lancaster | 71-72-73-73-289 |
| Billy Mayfair | 71-73-71-74-289 |
| Tommy Nakajima | 73-72-69-75-289 |
| Ernie Els | 74-68-79-69-290 |
| Mark Wiebe | 73-72-75-70-290 |
| Scott Hoch | 72-72-74-72-290 |
| Dan Forsman | 76-69-71-74-290 |
| Wayne Grady | 74-67-78-72-291 |
| Craig Parry | 72-73-75-71-291 |
| Nick Faldo | 69-75-74-73-291 |
| Willie Wood | 70-75-71-75-291 |
| Woody Austin | 70-74-75-73-292 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 74-71-73-74-292 |
| Nolan Henke | 72-70-75-75-292 |
| Payne Stewart | 73-70-73-76-292 |
| Paul Goydos | 71-73-77-72-293 |
| Jeff Maggert | 73-70-76-74-293 |
| Marco Dawson | 76-69-75-74-294 |
| Bernhard Langer | 73-72-78-72-295 |
| Joel Edwards | 68-76-75-77-296 |
| Satoshi Higashi | 72-72-80-73-297 |
| Stu Ingraham | 73-72-75-77-297 |
| John Reeves | 74-71-79-74-298 |
| Howard Clark | 73-72-75-78-298 |
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