1993 PGA Championship

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

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
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Inverness
Club

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Location in the United States

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

See also: Inverness Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	398	385	194	466	409	210	452	554	420	3,488	363	378	170	515	448	465	409	435	354	3,537	7,025
Par	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	35	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	36	71

Source:^[7]

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

6,982 yards (6,384 m), par 71 - 1986 PGA Championship 6,982 yards (6,384 m), par 71 - 1979 U.S. Open 6,919 yards (6,327 m), par 71 - 1957 U.S. Open 6,529 yards (5,970 m), par 71 - 1931 U.S. Open 6,569 yards (6,007 m), par 71 - 1920 U.S. Open

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 12, 1993

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

Second round

Friday, August 13, 1993

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

Third round

Saturday, August 14, 1993

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

Final round

Sunday, August 15, 1993

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Paul Azinger	69-66-69-68=272	−12	Playoff
	Greg Norman	68-68-67-69=272
3	Nick Faldo	68-68-69-68=273	−11	105,000
4	Vijay Singh	68-63-73-70=274	−10	90,000
5	Tom Watson	69-65-70-72=276	−8	75,000
T6	John Cook	72-66-68-71=277	−7	47,813
	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

Source:^[8]

Scorecard

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

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	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Paul Azinger	4-4	E	300,000
2	Greg Norman	4-x	+1	155,000

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

References

1. "Tournament Info for: 1993 PGA Championship". PGA.com. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
2. Diaz, Jaime (August 16, 1993). "Norman zinged". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (New York Times). p. D-1.
3. Green, Bob (August 16, 1993). "Azinger wins a major - Norman gets stung". Deseret News. Associated Press. p. D-1.
4. Reilly, Rick (August 23, 1993). "Zinged!". Sports Illustrated. p. 14.
5. Hackenberg, Dave (August 16, 1993). "A zinger of a finish". Toledo Blade. p. 19.
6. . Inverness Club. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
7. "Day One Scorecard". Toledo Blade Toledo Blade. August 13, 1993. p. 30.
8. "1993 PGA Championship". databasegolf.com. Retrieved August 17, 2013.

External links

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