1986 PGA Tour

The 1986 PGA Tour season was played from January 8 to November 2. The season consisted of 45 official money events. Bob Tway won the most tournaments, four, and there were 11 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 1986 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 11	MONY Tournament of Champions	California	Calvin Peete (11)	267 (-21)	90,000
Jan 19	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	California	Donnie Hammond (1)	335 (-25)	108,000
Jan 26	Phoenix Open	Arizona	Hal Sutton (6)	267 (-21)	90,000
Feb 2	Bing Crosby National Pro-Am	California	Fuzzy Zoeller (8)	205 (-11)	108,000
Feb 9	Shearson Lehman Brothers Andy Williams Open	California	Bob Tway (1)	204 (-12)	81,000
Feb 16	Hawaiian Open	Hawaii	Corey Pavin (3)	272 (-16)	90,000
Feb 23	Los Angeles Open	California	Doug Tewell (3)	270 (-14)	81,000
Mar 2	Honda Classic	Florida	Kenny Knox (1)	287 (-1)	90,000
Mar 9	Doral-Eastern Open	Florida	Andy Bean (10)	276 (-12)	90,000
Mar 16	Hertz Bay Hill Classic	Florida	Dan Forsman (2)	202 (-11)	90,000
Mar 23	USF&G Classic	Louisiana	Calvin Peete (12)	269 (-19)	90,000
Mar 30	Tournament Players Championship	Florida	John Mahaffey (9)	275 (-13)	162,000
Apr 6	Greater Greensboro Open	North Carolina	Sandy Lyle (2)	275 (-13)	90,000
Apr 13	Masters	Georgia	Jack Nicklaus (73)	279 (-9)	144,000
Apr 20	Sea Pines Heritage	South Carolina	Fuzzy Zoeller (9)	276 (-8)	81,000
Apr 27	Houston Open	Texas	Curtis Strange (9)	274 (-14)	90,000
May 4	Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational	Nevada	Greg Norman (3)	333 (-27)	207,000
May 11	Byron Nelson Golf Classic	Texas	Andy Bean (11)	269 (-11)	108,000
May 18	Colonial National Invitation	Texas	Dan Pohl (1)	205 (-5)	108,000
May 25	Memorial Tournament	Ohio	Hal Sutton (7)	271 (-17)	100,000
Jun 1	Kemper Open	Maryland	Greg Norman (4)	277 (-11)	90,000
Jun 8	Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic	New York	Bob Tway (2)	272 (-12)	108,000
Jun 15	U.S. Open	New York	Raymond Floyd (20)	279 (-1)	115,000
Jun 22	Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Golf Classic	Georgia	Bob Tway (3)	269 (-19)	90,000
Jun 29	Canadian Open	Canada	Bob Murphy (5)	280 (-8)	108,000
Jul 6	Canon Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open	Connecticut	Mac O'Grady (1)	269 (-15)	126,000
Jul 13	Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic	Virginia	Fuzzy Zoeller (10)	274 (-10)	90,000
Jul 20	British Open	Scotland	Greg Norman (5)	280 (E)	105,000
Jul 20	Hardee's Golf Classic	Illinois	Mark Wiebe (2)	268 (-12)	72,000
Jul 27	Buick Open	Michigan	Ben Crenshaw (11)	270 (-18)	90,000
Aug 3	Western Open	Illinois	Tom Kite (9)	286 (-2)	90,000
Aug 11	PGA Championship	Ohio	Bob Tway (4)	276 (-8)	140,000
Aug 18	The International	Colorado	Ken Green (2)	31 (Stableford)	180,000
Aug 24	NEC World Series of Golf	Ohio	Dan Pohl (2)	277 (-3)	126,000
Aug 31	Federal Express St. Jude Classic	Tennessee	Mike Hulbert (1)	280 (-8)	109,064
Sep 7	B.C. Open	New York	Rick Fehr (1)	267 (-17)	72,000
Sep 14	Bank of Boston Classic	Massachusetts	Gene Sauers (1)	274 (-10)	81,000
Sep 21	Greater Milwaukee Open	Wisconsin	Corey Pavin (4)	272 (-16)	72,000
Sep 28	Southwest Golf Classic	Texas	Mark Calcavecchia (1)	275 (-13)	72,000
Oct 5	Southern Open	Georgia	Fred Wadsworth (1)	269 (-11)	63,000
Oct 12	Pensacola Open	Florida	Ernie Gonzalez (1)	128 (-14)	40,500
Oct 19	Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic	Florida	Raymond Floyd (21)	275 (-13)	90,000
Oct 26	Vantage Championship	Texas	Ben Crenshaw (12)	196 (-14)	180,000
Nov 2	Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship	Arizona	Jim Thorpe (3)	67 to 71	150,000
Nov 2	Tallahassee Open	Florida	Mark Hayes (n/a*)	273 (-15)	36,000

*In the Tallahassee Open, the money was official but the win was not.

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Scott Hoch	United States	70.08
2	Bernhard Langer	Germany	70.19
3	Greg Norman	Australia	70.22
4	Tom Watson	United States	70.28
5	Payne Stewart	United States	70.36

Full 1986 Scoring Average List

Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events	Wins
1	Greg Norman	Australia	653,296	19	3
2	Bob Tway	United States	652,780	33	4
3	Payne Stewart	United States	535,389	29	0
4	Andy Bean	United States	491,938	27	2
5	Dan Pohl	United States	463,630	25	2

Full 1986 Official Money List

Career Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Wins
1	Jack Nicklaus	United States	4,912,294	73
2	Tom Watson	United States	4,085,278	36
3	Lee Trevino	United States	3,264,290	29
4	Raymond Floyd	United States	3,249,459	21
5	Tom Kite	United States	2,919,491	9

Full 1986 Career Official Money List

Awards

Award	Winner	Country
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award)	Greg Norman	Australia
PGA Player of the Year	Bob Tway	United States
Scoring leader (PGA - Vardon Trophy)	Scott Hoch	United States
Scoring leader (PGA Tour - Byron Nelson Award)	Scott Hoch	United States

External links

• PGA Tour official site
• 1986 season coverage at golfstats.com