1985 PGA Tour

The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1985 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.

Date	Tournament	Location	Winner	Score	1st Prize ($)
Jan 13	Bob Hope Classic	California	Lanny Wadkins (13)	333 (-27)	90,000
Jan 20	Phoenix Open	Arizona	Calvin Peete (9)	270 (-14)	81,000
Jan 27	Los Angeles Open	California	Lanny Wadkins (14)	264 (-20)	72,000
Feb 3	Bing Crosby National Pro-Am	California	Mark O'Meara (2)	283 (-5)	90,000
Feb 10	Hawaiian Open	Hawaii	Mark O'Meara (3)	267 (-21)	90,000
Feb 17	Isuzu-Andy Williams San Diego Open	California	Woody Blackburn (2)	269 (-19)	72,000
Feb 24	Doral-Eastern Open	Florida	Mark McCumber (4)	284 (-4)	72,000
Mar 3	Honda Classic	Florida	Curtis Strange (6)	275 (-13)	90,000
Mar 10	Hertz Bay Hill Classic	Florida	Fuzzy Zoeller (7)	275 (-9)	90,000
Mar 17	USF&G Classic	Louisiana	Seve Ballesteros (7)	205 (-11)	72,000
Mar 24	Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational	Nevada	Curtis Strange (7)	338 (-17)	171,000
Mar 31	Tournament Players Championship	Florida	Calvin Peete (10)	274 (-14)	162,000
Apr 7	Greater Greensboro Open	North Carolina	Joey Sindelar (1)	285 (-3)	72,000
Apr 14	Masters	Georgia	Bernhard Langer (1)	282 (-6)	126,000
Apr 21	Sea Pines Heritage	South Carolina	Bernhard Langer (2)	273 (-11)	72,000
Apr 28	Houston Open	Texas	Raymond Floyd (19)	277 (-11)	90,000
May 5	MONY Tournament of Champions	California	Tom Kite (8)	275 (-13)	72,000
May 12	Byron Nelson Golf Classic	Texas	Bob Eastwood (3)	272 (-8)	90,000
May 19	Colonial National Invitation	Texas	Corey Pavin (2)	266 (-14)	90,000
May 26	Memorial Tournament	Ohio	Hale Irwin (17)	281 (-7)	100,000
Jun 2	Kemper Open	Maryland	Bill Glasson (1)	278 (-10)	90,000
Jun 9	Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic	New York	Roger Maltbie (4)	275 (-9)	90,000
Jun 16	U.S. Open	Michigan	Andy North (3)	279 (-1)	103,000
Jun 23	Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Golf Classic	Georgia	Wayne Levi (8)	273 (-15)	90,000
Jun 30	St. Jude Memphis Classic	Tennessee	Hal Sutton (4)	279 (-9)	90,000
Jul 7	Canadian Open	Canada	Curtis Strange (8)	279 (-9)	86,507
Jul 14	Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic	Virginia	Mark Wiebe (1)	273 (-11)	90,000
Jul 21	Lite Quad Cities Open	Illinois	Dan Forsman (1)	267 (-13)	54,000
Jul 21	British Open	England	Sandy Lyle (1)	282 (2)	94,250
Jul 28	Canon Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open	Connecticut	Phil Blackmar (1)	271 (-13)	108,000
Aug 4	Western Open	Illinois	Scott Verplank (amateur,1)	279 (-9)	90,000
Aug 11	PGA Championship	Colorado	Hubert Green (19)	278 (-6)	125,000
Aug 18	Buick Open	Michigan	Ken Green (1)	268 (-20)	81,000
Aug 25	NEC World Series of Golf	Ohio	Roger Maltbie (5)	268 (-12)	126,000
Sep 1	B.C. Open	New York	Joey Sindelar (2)	274 (-10)	54,000
Sep 8	Bank of Boston Classic	Massachusetts	George Burns (3)	267 (-17)	72,000
Sep 15	Greater Milwaukee Open	Wisconsin	Jim Thorpe (1)	274 (-14)	54,000
Sep 22	Southwest Golf Classic	Texas	Hal Sutton (5)	273 (-15)	72,000
Sep 29	Texas Open	Texas	John Mahaffey (8)	268 (-12)	63,000
Oct 6	Southern Open	Georgia	Tim Simpson (1)	264 (-16)	63,000
Oct 13	Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic	Florida	Lanny Wadkins (15)	267 (-21)	72,000
Oct 20	Pensacola Open	Florida	Danny Edwards (5)	269 (-15)	54,000
Oct 27	Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship	Arizona	Jim Thorpe (2)	4&3	150,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Don Pooley	United States	70.36
2	John Mahaffey	United States	70.44
2	Lanny Wadkins	United States	70.44
4	Corey Pavin	United States	70.49
5	Raymond Floyd	United States	70.53

Full 1985 Scoring Average List

Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events	Wins
1	Curtis Strange	United States	542,321	25	3
2	Lanny Wadkins	United States	446,893	24	3
3	Calvin Peete	United States	384,489	22	2
4	Jim Thorpe	United States	379,091	28	2
5	Raymond Floyd	United States	378,989	22	1

Full 1985 Official Money List

Career Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Wins
1	Jack Nicklaus	United States	4,686,280	72
2	Tom Watson	United States	3,806,940	36
3	Lee Trevino	United States	3,177,975	29
4	Raymond Floyd	United States	2,868,951	19
5	Hale Irwin	United States	2,751,050	17

Full 1985 Career Official Money List

Awards

Award	Winner	Country
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award)	Curtis Strange	United States
PGA Player of the Year	Lanny Wadkins	United States
Scoring leader (PGA - Vardon Trophy)	Don Pooley	United States
Scoring leader (PGA Tour - Byron Nelson Award)	Don Pooley	United States

External links

• PGA Tour official site
• 1985 season coverage at golfstats.com