2004 PGA Championship Winner and Scores
Winner: Vijay Singh, 280
Where it was played: Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin
Tournament dates: August 12-15, 2004
Leader after first round: Darren Clarke, 65
Leader after second round: Justin Leonard and Vijay Singh, 135
Leader after third round: Vijay Singh, 204
What Happened at the 2004 PGA Championship
This tournament was the international "coming out" for Whistling Straits, a Pete Dye-designed golf course on the shores of Lake Michigan. Dye built a rugged, shaggy, windswept course in the links tradition and presented golfers with many unusual sitelines around the course. It was also the longest (7,536 yards) course in major championship history to this point. Early predictions of extravagantly high scores did not bear out. But Whistling Straits went on to become a go-to course for the PGA of America.Something else new in the 2004 PGA Championship: the playoff format. The sudden-death format was last used in the 2000 PGA Championship, after which the PGA switched to a three-hole, aggregate score format. That format was needed for the first time here after Vijay Singh, Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard all tied at 8-under 280.
Singh carded a 76 in the final round, plagued by a balky putter. He didn't make a birdie in the entire fourth round. Yet, he walked off with the Wanamaker Trophy for the second time.
Justin Leonard appeared to have one hand on the trophy when he took a 2-stroke lead with five holes to play. But Leonard couldn't make any putts down the stretch either, and a late bogey dropped him into the three-way tie with Singh and DiMarco. DiMarco shot 71 in the final round, but started the last day five strokes behind Singh's lead.
That threesome continued with the three-hole, aggregate score playoff. And Singh, despite his troubles throughout the day, was the only one of the three to make anything happen. Singh nearly drove the green on the first extra hole, a par-4, then sank a 6-foot birdie putt. So while Singh failed to make a birdie in the fourth round, he made one when it counted even more — in the playoff. It was the only birdie made by any of the three golfers in the playoff.
For Singh, it was his third career major championship victory. His final-round 76 set a record for highest final-round score by a PGA Championship winner, and was the highest final round of any major championship winner since Reg Whitcombe shot 78 in Round 4 at the 1938 British Open. But he made the putt that counted the most. At 41 years old, he was, at the time, the fourth-oldest winner of a PGA Championship.
Nick Faldo, who won six major championships but never the PGA, played this major for the final time this year, tying for 49th.
2004 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Vijay Singh | 67-68-69-76—280 (3-3-4—10) |
| Chris DiMarco | 68-70-71-71—280 (4-3-x—x) |
| Justin Leonard | 66-69-70-75—280 (4-3-x—x) |
| Chris Riley | 69-70-69-73—281 |
| Ernie Els | 66-70-72-73—281 |
| K.J. Choi | 68-71-73-70—282 |
| Paul McGinley | 69-74-70-69—282 |
| Phil Mickelson | 69-72-67-74—282 |
| Ben Crane | 70-74-69-70—283 |
| Robert Allenby | 71-70-72-70—283 |
| Stephen Ames | 68-71-69-75—283 |
| Adam Scott | 71-71-69-72—283 |
| Brian Davis | 70-71-69-74—284 |
| Darren Clarke | 65-71-72-76—284 |
| Arron Oberholser | 73-71-70-70—284 |
| Brad Faxon | 71-71-70-72—284 |
| Loren Roberts | 68-72-70-75—285 |
| Jean-Francois Remesy | 72-71-70-72—285 |
| Matt Gogel | 71-71-69-74—285 |
| Fredrik Jacobson | 72-70-70-73—285 |
| Stewart Cink | 73-70-70-72—285 |
| Stuart Appleby | 68-75-72-70—285 |
| David Toms | 72-72-69-72—285 |
| Tiger Woods | 75-69-69-73—286 |
| J.L. Lewis | 73-69-72-72—286 |
| Tom Byrum | 72-73-71-70—286 |
| Chad Campbell | 73-70-71-72—286 |
| Luke Donald | 67-73-71-75—286 |
| Geoff Ogilvy | 68-73-71-74—286 |
| Shaun Micheel | 77-68-70-71—286 |
| Nick O'Hern | 73-71-68-75—287 |
| Charles Howell III | 70-71-72-74—287 |
| Miguel Angel Jimenez | 76-65-75-71—287 |
| Carlos Franco | 69-75-72-71—287 |
| Bo Van Pelt | 74-71-70-72—287 |
| Chip Sullivan | 72-71-73-71—287 |
| Briny Baird | 67-69-75-77—288 |
| Jay Haas | 68-72-71-77—288 |
| Todd Hamilton | 72-73-75-68—288 |
| Zach Johnson | 75-70-69-74—288 |
| Trevor Immelman | 75-69-72-72—288 |
| Brett Quigley | 74-69-73-72—288 |
| Ian Poulter | 73-72-70-73—288 |
| Steve Flesch | 73-72-67-76—288 |
| Niclas Fasth | 74-70-73-72—289 |
| David Howell | 72-72-70-75—289 |
| Padraig Harrington | 68-71-72-78—289 |
| Tommy Armour | 72-71-74-72—289 |
| Michael Campbell | 71-73-69-77—290 |
| Patrick Sheehan | 70-71-75-74—290 |
| Duffy Waldorf | 69-72-70-79—290 |
| Nick Faldo | 72-70-74-74—290 |
| Joe Ogilvie | 75-68-70-77—290 |
| Carl Pettersson | 71-71-76-73—291 |
| Rod Pampling | 73-69-70-80—292 |
| Eduardo Romero | 72-73-70-77—292 |
| Craig Parry | 70-75-71-76—292 |
| Bob Tway | 71-70-74-77—292 |
| S.K. Ho | 72-73-73-74—292 |
| Hidemichi Tanaka | 72-71-71-78—292 |
| Paul Azinger | 74-71-74-73—292 |
| Woody Austin | 74-71-74-74—293 |
| Jeff Sluman | 72-72-79-70—293 |
| Scott Verplank | 67-76-77-73—293 |
| Shingo Katayama | 74-70-76-73—293 |
| Bernhard Langer | 74-70-75-75—294 |
| Scott Drummond | 71-72-76-75—294 |
| Mark Hensby | 74-69-77-76—296 |
| Robert Gamez | 72-73-76-75—296 |
| Colin Montgomerie | 73-72-78-74—297 |
| Roy Biancalana | 73-72-75-79—299 |
| Jeff Coston | 77-68-79-77—301 |
| Skip Kendall | 72-73-79-80—304 |
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