1983 PGA Championship

1983 PGA Championship
	Finishing hole at Riviera Country Club
Tournament information
Dates	August 4–7, 1983
Location	Los Angeles, California; 34°03′00″N 118°30′04″W / 34.05°N 118.501°W
Course(s)	Riviera Country Club
Organized by	PGA of America
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	6,946 yards (6,351 m)
Field	150 players, 87 after cut
Cut	147 (+5)
Prize fund	$600,000
Winner's share	$100,000
Champion
	Hal Sutton
	274 (−10)
Location map
	Riviera Country Club Location in the United States Riviera Country Club Location in California
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The 1983 PGA Championship was the 65th PGA Championship, held August 4–7 at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, California. Hal Sutton led wire-to-wire to win his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus, a five-time champion.^[2] Nicklaus shot a final round 66 (−5) for his 19th and final runner-up finish in a major championship.^[3] Sutton was under scrutiny as he entered the weekend; two weeks earlier in Virginia, he had a six-shot lead after 54 holes, shot a final round 77, and finished third.^[4]

It was the second major at Riviera, following the U.S. Open in 1948, won by Ben Hogan. The PGA Championship returned to the course in 1995, and it hosts a regular event on the PGA Tour, originally known as the Los Angeles Open.

Only the third PGA Championship in California, it was preceded by 1929 in Los Angeles at Hillcrest and 1977 at Pebble Beach. The 1962 event was originally awarded to Brentwood in L.A., but was moved to Philadelphia at Aronimink.^[5]^[6]

This was the first major championship to award a six-figure winner's share, $100,000, increasing from the $65,000 of the previous year. The first five-figure winner's share in a major was the 1958 Masters and the 2001 Masters was the first to break seven figures.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 4, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Hal Sutton	65	−6
T2	Scott Simpson	66	−5
T2	Buddy Whitten	66	−5
T4	Danny Edwards	67	−4
	John Fought
	Bruce Lietzke
T7	Ben Crenshaw	68	−3
	Keith Fergus
	Jay Haas
	Pat McGowan
	Jim Thorpe

Source:^[7]

Second round

Friday, August 5, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Hal Sutton	65-66=131	−11
2	Ben Crenshaw	68-66=134	−8
3	Pat McGowan	68-67=135	−7
T4	John Fought	67-69=136	−6
	Gibby Gilbert	70-66=136
	Buddy Whitten	66-70=136
T7	Keith Fergus	68-70=138	−4
	Bruce Lietzke	67-71=138
	Jack Nicklaus	73-65=138
	Lee Trevino	70-68=138

Source:^[8]

Third round

Saturday, August 6, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Hal Sutton	65-66-72=203	−10
2	Ben Crenshaw	68-66-71=205	−8
3	John Fought	67-69-71=207	−6
T4	Bruce Lietzke	67-71-70=208	−5
	Pat McGowan	68-67-73=208
	Larry Nelson	68-67-73=208
T7	Jay Haas	68-72-69=209	−4
	Jack Nicklaus	73-65-71=209
	Scott Simpson	66-73-70=209
	Buddy Whitten	66-70-73=209

Source:^[9]

Final round

Sunday, August 7, 1983

Final leaderboard

Champion
(c) = past champion

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Hal Sutton	65-66-72-71=274	−10	100,000
2	Jack Nicklaus (c)	73-65-71-66=275	−9	60,000
3	Peter Jacobsen	73-70-68-65=276	−8	40,000
4	Pat McGowan	68-67-73-69=277	−7	30,000
5	John Fought	67-69-71-71=278	−6	25,000
T6	Bruce Lietzke	67-71-70-71=279	−5	19,000
T6	Fuzzy Zoeller	72-71-67-69=279	−5	19,000
8	Dan Pohl	72-70-69-69=280	−4	16,000
T9	Ben Crenshaw	68-66-71-77=282	−2	10,880
	Jay Haas	68-72-69-73=282
	Mike Reid	69-71-72-70=282
	Scott Simpson	66-73-70-73=282
	Doug Tewell	74-72-69-67=282

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T14	Keith Fergus	68-70-72-73=283	−1	6,750
	David Graham (c)	70-69-74-70=283
	Hale Irwin	72-70-73-68=283
	Roger Maltbie	71-71-71-70=283
	Jim Thorpe	68-72-74-69=283
	Lee Trevino (c)	70-68-74-71=283
T20	John Cook	74-71-68-71=284	E	4,750
	Danny Edwards	67-76-71-70=284
	Raymond Floyd (c)	69-75-71-69=284
T23	Chip Beck	72-71-70-72=285	+1	3,913
	Fred Couples	71-70-73-71=285
	Jerry Pate	69-72-70-74=285
	Don Pooley	72-68-74-71=285
T27	Seve Ballesteros	71-76-72-67=286	+2	3,200
	Bobby Wadkins	73-72-74-67=286
	Buddy Whitten	66-70-73-77=286
T30	Andy Bean	71-73-71-72=287	+3	2,650
	Bob Boyd	70-77-72-68=287
	Johnny Miller	72-75-73-67=287
	Mark Pfeil	73-71-70-73=287
	Jim Simons	69-75-72-71=287
	Tom Weiskopf	76-70-69-72=287
T36	Jim Colbert	73-66-76-73=288	+4	2,088
	Larry Nelson (c)	72-68-68-80=288
	Bobby Nichols (c)	75-69-74-70=288
	Calvin Peete	69-71-76-72=288
	Bob Shearer	73-67-76-72=288
	Tim Simpson	76-70-70-72=288
T42	Lou Graham	73-74-70-72=289	+5	1,875
	Gary Hallberg	71-75-71-72=289
	Barry Jaeckel	73-74-67-75=289
	Greg Norman	72-72-70-75=289
	Gary Player (c)	74-68-73-74=289
T47	Gibby Gilbert	70-66-80-74=290	+6	1,730
	Morris Hatalsky	69-75-73-73=290
	Vance Heafner	73-74-72-71=290
	Lon Hinkle	70-75-74-71=290
	Larry Mize	70-70-75-75=290
	Mike Nicolette	72-71-73-74=290
	Peter Oosterhuis	75-71-71-73=290
	Tom Watson	75-67-78-70=290
T55	John Adams	75-71-72-73=291	+7	1,610
	George Burns	78-68-72-73=291
	Charles Coody	73-72-70-76=291
	Ed Fiori	75-69-73-74=291
	Gil Morgan	72-73-74-72=291
	Jack Renner	74-71-73-73=291
T61	Scott Hoch	73-72-74-73=292	+8	1,565
T61	Jim Nelford	72-72-76-72=292	+8	1,565
T63	Bruce Fleisher	74-73-74-72=293	+9	1,535
	Bob Gilder	71-69-76-77=293
	Mark Lye	75-67-75-76=293
	Craig Stadler	72-73-76-72=293
T67	George Archer	70-77-74-73=294	+10	1,506
	Mike Donald	71-71-76-76=294
	Tom Kite	72-75-73-74=294
	Arnold Palmer	74-73-74-73=294
	Nick Price	72-74-74-74=294
72	Chen Tze-chung	72-75-79-69=295	+11	1,500
73	Larry Gilbert	71-74-76-75=296	+12
T74	Rex Caldwell	74-73-75-75=297	+13
T74	Pat Lindsey	74-72-80-71=297	+13
76	Ron Streck	72-73-77-76=298	+14
T77	Bill Britton	74-73-77-78=300	+16
	Bobby Heins	73-74-75-78=300
	Jim Logue	73-74-77-76=300
T80	Lee Elder	76-71-77-77=301	+17
T80	Ed Sneed	74-73-75-79=301	+17
T82	Bob Eastwood	76-70-77-79=302	+18
T82	Allen Miller	69-78-77-78=302	+18
T84	Robert Hoyt	71-72-80-80=303	+19
T84	Leonard Thompson	73-74-75-81=303	+19
86	Curtis Strange	71-74-85-74=304	+20
87	Jim King	73-73-78-84=308	+24
CUT	Hubert Green	73-75=148	+6
	Mark Hayes	72-76=148
	Bob Lendzion	74-74=148
	Mark O'Meara	72-76=148
	Jim Albus	74-75=149	+7
	Gene Borek	71-78=149
	Brad Bryant	72-77=149
	Billy Casper	74-75=149
	Al Geiberger (c)	74-75=149
	John Jackson	72-77=149
	John Mahaffey (c)	77-72=149
	Jim Masserio	76-73=149
	Mark McCumber	79-70=149
	Andy North	75-74=149
	Pete Oakley	72-77=149
	Don Padgett	73-76=149
	Tom Purtzer	74-75=149
	Payne Stewart	78-71=149
	Paul Wise	77-72=149
	Mike Wynn	73-76=149
	Bruce Ashworth	72-78=150	+8
	David Edwards	72-78=150
	Dan Halldorson	73-77=150
	Gary Koch	72-78=150
	Mike McCullough	72-78=150
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	76-74=150
	Tim Norris	74-76=150
	Victor Regalado	71-79=150
	Lanny Wadkins (c)	70-80=150
	D. A. Weibring	73-77=150
	Ed Whitman	76-74=150
	Isao Aoki	75-76=151	+9
	Dave Barber	76-75=151
	Nick Faldo	74-77=151
	Kevin Morris	75-76=151
	Tom Robertson	74-77=151
	Jack Seltzer	77-74=151
	Mike Sullivan	76-75=151
	Tim Collins	76-76=152	+10
	Bob Elliott	78-74=152
	John Elliott Jr.	77-75=152
	Rick Karbowski	78-74=152
	Vic Lipscomb	78-74=152
	Gary McCord	72-80=152
	Jack Sommers	75-77=152
	Dave Stockton (c)	78-74=152
	Rick Werner	78-74=152
	Jim White	80-72=152
	Steve Benson	79-74=153	+11
	Bobby Clampett	76-77=153
	Gene Littler	75-78=153
	Bill Rogers	81-72=153
	J. C. Snead	77-77=154	+12
	John Gentile	79-76=155	+13
	Don Maddox	79-76=155
	Clarence Rose	75-80=155
	Phillip Hancock	73-83=156	+14
	Thomas Gray	78-79=157	+15
	Robbie Gilmore	81-79=160	+18
	Jerry Barber (c)	80-83=163	+21
	Denis Husse	81-83=164	+22
	Jack McConachie	82-84=166	+24
	John Kirchner	87-83=170	+28

Source:^[10]

References

^ "Tournament Info for: 1983 PGA Championship". PGA.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
^ Parascenzo, Marino (August 8, 1983). "Out of Bear's reach, Sutton wins PGA". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 21.
^ Jenkins, Dan (August 15, 1983). "There's a new bear on the loose". Sports Illustrated: 16.
^ "Peete wins from 6 back". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. July 25, 1983. p. 13.
^ "PGA opens its doors to Negroes, world golfers". Florence Times. Alabama. Associated Press. November 10, 1961. p. 4, section 2.
^ "PGA group abolishes 'Caucasian'". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Florida. Associated Press. November 10, 1961. p. 22.
^ "PGA Championship". Milwaukee Sentinel. August 5, 1983. p. 4, part 2.
^ "Golf: PGA Championship". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. August 6, 1983. p. 18.
^ Boswell, Thomas (August 7, 1983). "Can Sutton win the PGA?". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. (Washington Post). p. 1B.
^ "1983 PGA Championship". databasegolf.com. Retrieved August 19, 2013.

External links

PGA.com – 1983 PGA Championship
Yahoo! Sports: 1983 PGA Championship leaderboard

[pgamedia83-1] "Tournament Info for: 1983 PGA Championship". PGA.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved August 4, 2012.

[oobrswp-2] Parascenzo, Marino (August 8, 1983). "Out of Bear's reach, Sutton wins PGA". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 21.

[siag83-3] Jenkins, Dan (August 15, 1983). "There's a new bear on the loose". Sports Illustrated: 16.

[pwfsxbk-4] "Peete wins from 6 back". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. July 25, 1983. p. 13.

[podfldrs-5] "PGA opens its doors to Negroes, world golfers". Florence Times. Alabama. Associated Press. November 10, 1961. p. 4, section 2.

[pgashtr-6] "PGA group abolishes 'Caucasian'". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Florida. Associated Press. November 10, 1961. p. 22.

[frstrd-7] "PGA Championship". Milwaukee Sentinel. August 5, 1983. p. 4, part 2.

[scdrd-8] "Golf: PGA Championship". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. August 6, 1983. p. 18.

[cswpga-9] Boswell, Thomas (August 7, 1983). "Can Sutton win the PGA?". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. (Washington Post). p. 1B.

[dbg83pga-10] "1983 PGA Championship". databasegolf.com. Retrieved August 19, 2013.

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