2002 PGA Tour

The 2002 PGA Tour season was played from January 3 to November 4. The season consisted of 49 official money events. Tiger Woods won the most tournaments, five, and there were 18 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 2002 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 6	Mercedes Championships	Hawaii	Sergio García (3)	274 (-18)	720,000
Jan 14	Sony Open in Hawaii	Hawaii	Jerry Kelly (1)	266 (-14)	720,000
Jan 20	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	California	Phil Mickelson (20)	330 (-30)	720,000
Jan 27	Phoenix Open	Arizona	Chris DiMarco (3)	267 (-17)	720,000
Feb 3	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	California	Matt Gogel (1)	274 (-14)	720,000
Feb 10	Buick Invitational	California	José María Olazábal (6)	275 (-13)	648,000
Feb 17	Nissan Open	California	Len Mattiace (1)	269 (-15)	666,000
Feb 24	Touchstone Energy Tucson Open	Arizona	Ian Leggatt (1)	268 (-20)	540,000
Feb 24	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship	California	Kevin Sutherland (1)	1 up	1,000,000
Mar 3	Genuity Championship	Florida	Ernie Els (9)	271 (-17)	846,000
Mar 10	Honda Classic	Florida	Matt Kuchar (1)	269 (-19)	630,000
Mar 17	Bay Hill Invitational	Florida	Tiger Woods (30)	275 (-13)	720,000
Mar 24	The Players Championship	Florida	Craig Perks (1)	280 (-8)	1,080,000
Mar 31	Shell Houston Open	Texas	Vijay Singh (10)	266 (-22)	720,000
Apr 7	BellSouth Classic	Georgia	Retief Goosen (2)	272 (-16)	684,000
Apr 14	Masters Tournament	Georgia	Tiger Woods (31)	276 (-12)	1,008,000
Apr 21	WorldCom Classic - The Heritage of Golf	South Carolina	Justin Leonard (7)	270 (-14)	720,000
Apr 28	Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic	North Carolina	Rocco Mediate (5)	272 (-16)	684,000
May 5	Compaq Classic of New Orleans	Louisiana	K.J. Choi (1)	271 (-17)	810,000
May 12	Verizon Byron Nelson Classic	Texas	Shigeki Maruyama (2)	266 (-14)	864,000
May 19	MasterCard Colonial	Texas	Nick Price (18)	267 (-13)	774,000
May 26	The Memorial Tournament	Ohio	Jim Furyk (7)	274 (-14)	810,000
Jun 2	Kemper Insurance Open	Maryland	Bob Estes (4)	273 (-11)	648,000
Jun 9	Buick Classic	New York	Chris Smith (1)	272 (-12)	630,000
Jun 16	U.S. Open	New York	Tiger Woods (32)	277 (-3)	1,000,000
Jun 23	Canon Greater Hartford Open	Connecticut	Phil Mickelson (21)	266 (-14)	720,000
Jun 30	FedEx St. Jude Classic	Tennessee	Len Mattiace (2)	266 (-18)	684,000
Jul 7	Advil Western Open	Illinois	Jerry Kelly (2)	269 (-19)	720,000
Jul 14	Greater Milwaukee Open	Wisconsin	Jeff Sluman (6)	261 (-23)	558,000
Jul 21	The Open Championship (British Open)	Scotland	Ernie Els (10)	278 (-6)	1,106,140
Jul 21	B.C. Open	New York	Spike McRoy (1)	269 (-19)	378,000
Jul 28	John Deere Classic	Illinois	J. P. Hayes (2)	262 (-22)	540,000
Aug 4	The International	Colorado	Rich Beem (2)	44 (Stableford)	810,000
Aug 11	Buick Open	Michigan	Tiger Woods (33)	271 (-17)	594,000
Aug 18	PGA Championship	Minnesota	Rich Beem (3)	278 (-10)	990,000
Aug 25	Reno-Tahoe Open	Nevada	Chris Riley (1)	271 (-17)	540,000
Aug 25	WGC-NEC Invitational	Washington	Craig Parry (1)	268 (-16)	1,000,000
Sep 1	Air Canada Championship	Canada	Gene Sauers (3)	269 (-15)	630,000
Sep 8	Bell Canadian Open	Canada	John Rollins (1)	272 (-16)	720,000
Sep 15	SEI Pennsylvania Classic	Pennsylvania	Dan Forsman (5)	270 (-14)	594,000
Sep 22	Tampa Bay Classic	Florida	K.J. Choi (2)	267 (-17)	468,000
Sep 22	WGC-American Express Championship	Ireland	Tiger Woods (34)	263 (-25)	1,000,000
Sep 29	Valero Texas Open	Texas	Loren Roberts (8)	261 (-19)	630,000
Oct 6	Michelob Championship at Kingsmill	Virginia	Charles Howell III (1)	270 (-14)	666,000
Oct 13	Invensys Classic at Las Vegas	Nevada	Phil Tataurangi (1)	330 (-29)	900,000
Oct 20	Disney Golf Classic	Florida	Bob Burns (1)	263 (-25)	666,000
Oct 27	Buick Challenge	Georgia	Jonathan Byrd (1)	261 (-27)	666,000
Nov 3	The Tour Championship	Georgia	Vijay Singh (11)	268 (-12)	900,000
Nov 4	Southern Farm Bureau Classic	Mississippi	Luke Donald (1)	201 (-15)	468,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Tiger Woods	United States	68.56
2	Vijay Singh	Fiji	69.47
3	Ernie Els	South Africa	69.50
4	Phil Mickelson	United States	69.58
5	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	69.59

Full 2002 Scoring Average List

Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events	Wins
1	Tiger Woods	United States	6,912,625	18	5
2	Phil Mickelson	United States	4,311,971	26	2
3	Vijay Singh	Fiji	3,756,563	28	2
4	David Toms	United States	3,459,739	27	0
5	Ernie Els	South Africa	3,291,895	18	2

Full 2002 Official Money List

Career Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Wins
1	Tiger Woods	United States	33,103,852	34
2	Phil Mickelson	United States	22,149,969	21
3	Davis Love III	United States	20,050,850	14
4	Vijay Singh	Fiji	18,281,015	11
5	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	16,648,337	18

Full 2002 Career Official Money List

Awards

Award	Winner	Country
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award)	Tiger Woods	United States
PGA Player of the Year	Tiger Woods	United States
PGA Tour Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Trophy)	Tiger Woods	United States
Scoring leader (PGA - Vardon Trophy)	Tiger Woods	United States
Scoring leader (PGA Tour - Byron Nelson Award)	Tiger Woods	United States
Rookie of the Year	Jonathan Byrd	United States
Comeback Player of the Year	Gene Sauers	United States

External links

• PGA Tour official site
• 2002 season coverage at golfstats.com