1996 PGA Tour

The 1996 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to October 28. The season consisted of 44 official money events (plus one event cancelled due to weather). Phil Mickelson won the most tournaments, four, and there were 13 first-time winners. The season notably featured the first Tour win for Tiger Woods. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1996 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 7	Mercedes Championships	California	Mark O'Meara (11)	271 (-17)	180,000
Jan 14	Nortel Open	Arizona	Phil Mickelson (6)	273 (-14)	225,000
Jan 21	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	California	Mark Brooks (5)	337 (-23)	234,000
Jan 27	Phoenix Open	Arizona	Phil Mickelson (7)	269 (-15)	234,000
Feb 4	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	California	cancelled after 36 holes - weather		(270,000)
Feb 11	Buick Invitational	California	Davis Love III (10)	269 (-19)	216,000
Feb 18	United Airlines Hawaiian Open	Hawaii	Jim Furyk (2)	277 (-11)	216,000
Feb 25	Nissan Open	California	Craig Stadler (12)	278 (-6)	216,000
Mar 3	Doral-Ryder Open	Florida	Greg Norman (18)	269 (-19)	324,000
Mar 10	Honda Classic	Florida	Tim Herron (1)	271 (-17)	234,000
Mar 17	Bay Hill Invitational	Florida	Paul Goydos (1)	275 (-13)	216,000
Mar 24	Freeport-McDermott Classic	Louisiana	Scott McCarron (1)	275 (-13)	216,000
Mar 31	The Players Championship	Florida	Fred Couples (12)	270 (-18)	630,000
Apr 7	BellSouth Classic	Georgia	Paul Stankowski (1)	280 (-8)	234,000
Apr 14	Masters	Georgia	Nick Faldo (8)	276 (-12)	450,000
Apr 21	MCI Classic	South Carolina	Loren Roberts (3)	265 (-19)	252,000
Apr 28	Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic	North Carolina	Mark O'Meara (12)	274 (-14)	324,000
May 5	Shell Houston Open	Texas	Mark Brooks (6)	274 (-14)	270,000
May 12	GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic	Texas	Phil Mickelson (8)	265 (-15)	270,000
May 19	MasterCard Colonial	Texas	Corey Pavin (14)	272 (-8)	270,000
May 26	Kemper Open	Maryland	Steve Stricker (1)	270 (-14)	270,000
Jun 2	Memorial Tournament	Ohio	Tom Watson (38)	274 (-14)	324,000
Jun 9	Buick Classic	New York	Ernie Els (3)	271 (-13)	216,000
Jun 16	U.S. Open	Michigan	Steve Jones (5)	278 (-2)	425,000
Jun 23	FedEx St. Jude Classic	Tennessee	John Cook (7)	258 (-26)	243,000
Jun 30	Canon Greater Hartford Open	Connecticut	D. A. Weibring (5)	270 (-10)	270,000
Jul 7	Motorola Western Open	Illinois	Steve Stricker (2)	270 (-18)	360,000
Jul 14	Michelob Championship at Kingsmill	Virginia	Scott Hoch (7)	265 (-19)	225,000
Jul 21	British Open	England	Tom Lehman (3)	271 (-13)	310,000
Jul 21	Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic	Mississippi	Willie Wood (1)	268 (-20)	180,000
Jul 28	CVS Charity Classic	Massachusetts	John Cook (8)	268 (-16)	216,000
Aug 4	Buick Open	Michigan	Justin Leonard (1)	266 (-22)	216,000
Aug 11	PGA Championship	Kentucky	Mark Brooks (7)	277 (-11)	430,000
Aug 18	Sprint International	Colorado	Clarence Rose (1)	31 (Stableford)	288,000
Aug 25	Greater Vancouver Open	Canada	Guy Boros (1)	272 (-12)	180,000
Aug 25	NEC World Series of Golf	Ohio	Phil Mickelson (9)	274 (-6)	378,000
Sep 1	Greater Milwaukee Open	Wisconsin	Loren Roberts (4)	265 (-19)	216,000
Sep 8	Bell Canadian Open	Canada	Dudley Hart (1)	202 (-14)	270,000
Sep 15	Quad City Classic	Illinois	Ed Fiori (4)	268 (-12)	216,000
Sep 22	B.C. Open	New York	Fred Funk (4)	197 (-16)	180,000
Sep 29	Buick Challenge	Georgia	Michael Bradley (1)	134 (-10)	180,000
Oct 6	Las Vegas Invitational	Nevada	Tiger Woods (1)	332 (-27)	297,000
Oct 13	LaCantera Texas Open	Texas	David Ogrin (1)	275 (-13)	216,000
Oct 20	Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic	Florida	Tiger Woods (2)	267 (-21)	216,000
Oct 28	The Tour Championship	Oklahoma	Tom Lehman (4)	268 (-12)	540,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Tom Lehman	United States	69.32
2	Fred Couples	United States	69.57
3	Mark O'Meara	United States	69.69
4	Tom Watson	United States	69.73
5	Greg Norman	Australia	69.76

Full 1996 Scoring Average List

Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events	Wins
1	Tom Lehman	United States	1,780,159	22	2
2	Phil Mickelson	United States	1,697,799	21	4
3	Mark Brooks	United States	1,429,396	29	3
4	Steve Stricker	United States	1,383,739	22	2
5	Mark O'Meara	United States	1,255,749	21	2

Full 1996 Official Money List

Career Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Wins
1	Greg Norman	Australia	10,484,065	18
2	Tom Kite	United States	9,657,325	19
3	Fred Couples	United States	8,437,102	12
4	Corey Pavin	United States	8,026,843	14
5	Payne Stewart	United States	7,926,773	9

Full 1996 Career Official Money List

Awards

Award	Winner	Country
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award)	Tom Lehman	United States
PGA Player of the Year	Tom Lehman	United States
PGA Tour Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Trophy)	Tom Lehman	United States
Scoring leader (PGA - Vardon Trophy)	Tom Lehman	United States
Scoring leader (PGA Tour - Byron Nelson Award)	Tom Lehman	United States
Rookie of the Year	Tiger Woods	United States
Comeback Player of the Year	Steve Jones	United States

External links

• PGA Tour official site
• 1996 season coverage at golfstats.com