1990 PGA Tour

The 1990 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to October 28. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Wayne Levi won the most tournaments, four, 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 1990 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	Purse ($)	1st prize ($)	Notes
Jan 7	MONY Tournament of Champions	California	Paul Azinger (6)	272 (−16)	750,000	135,000
Jan 14	Northern Telecom Tucson Open	Arizona	Robert Gamez (1)	270 (−18)	900,000	162,000
Jan 21	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	California	Peter Jacobsen (4)	339 (−21)	1,000,000	180,000
Jan 28	Phoenix Open	Arizona	Tommy Armour III (1)	267 (−17)	900,000	162,000
Feb 4	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	California	Mark O'Meara (5)	281 (−7)	1,000,000	180,000
Feb 11	Hawaiian Open	Hawaii	David Ishii (1)	279 (−9)	1,000,000	180,000
Feb 18	Shearson Lehman Hutton Open	California	Dan Forsman (3)	275 (−13)	900,000	162,000
Feb 25	Nissan Los Angeles Open	California	Fred Couples (4)	266 (−18)	1,000,000	180,000
Mar 4	Doral-Ryder Open	Florida	Greg Norman (9)	273 (−15)	1,400,000	252,000
Mar 11	Honda Classic	Florida	John Huston (1)	282 (−6)	1,000,000	180,000
Mar 18	The Players Championship	Florida	Jodie Mudd (3)	278 (−10)	1,500,000	270,000
Mar 25	Nestle Invitational	Florida	Robert Gamez (2)	274 (−14)	900,000	162,000
Apr 1	Independent Insurance Agent Open	Texas	Tony Sills (1)	204 (−12)	1,000,000	180,000
Apr 8	Masters Tournament	Georgia	Nick Faldo (4)	278 (−10)	1,250,000	225,000
Apr 8	Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic	Mississippi	Gene Sauers	268 (−12)	300,000	54,000	Satellite event
Apr 15	MCI Heritage Golf Classic	South Carolina	Payne Stewart (6)	276 (−8)	1,000,000	180,000
Apr 22	KMart Greater Greensboro Open	North Carolina	Steve Elkington (1)	282 (−6)	1,250,000	225,000
Apr 29	USF&G Classic	Louisiana	David Frost (4)	276 (−12)	1,000,000	180,000
May 6	GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic	Texas	Payne Stewart (7)	202 (−8)	1,000,000	180,000
May 13	Memorial Tournament	Ohio	Greg Norman (10)	216 (E)	1,000,000	180,000
May 20	Southwestern Bell Colonial	Texas	Ben Crenshaw (15)	272 (−8)	1,000,000	180,000
May 27	BellSouth Atlanta Golf Classic	Georgia	Wayne Levi (9)	275 (−13)	1,000,000	180,000
Jun 3	Kemper Open	Maryland	Gil Morgan (7)	274 (−10)	1,000,000	180,000
Jun 10	Centel Western Open	Illinois	Wayne Levi (10)	275 (−13)	1,000,000	180,000
Jun 18	U.S. Open	Illinois	Hale Irwin (18)	280 (−8)	1,200,000	220,000
Jun 24	Buick Classic	New York	Hale Irwin (19)	269 (−15)	1,000,000	180,000
Jul 1	Canon Greater Hartford Open	Connecticut	Wayne Levi (11)	267 (−13)	1,000,000	180,000
Jul 8	Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic	Virginia	Lanny Wadkins (19)	266 (−18)	1,000,000	180,000
Jul 15	Bank of Boston Classic	Massachusetts	Morris Hatalsky (4)	275 (−9)	900,000	162,000
Jul 22	British Open	Scotland	Nick Faldo (5)	270 (−18)	825,000	153,850
Jul 29	Buick Open	Michigan	Chip Beck (3)	272 (−16)	1,000,000	180,000
Aug 5	Federal Express St. Jude Classic	Tennessee	Tom Kite (14)	269 (−15)	1,000,000	180,000
Aug 12	PGA Championship	Alabama	Wayne Grady (2)	282 (−6)	1,350,000	225,000
Aug 19	The International	Colorado	Davis Love III (2)	14 (Stableford)	1,000,000	180,000
Aug 26	NEC World Series of Golf	Ohio	José María Olazábal (1)	262 (−18)	1,100,000	198,000
Aug 26	Chattanooga Classic	Tennessee	Peter Persons (1)	260 (−20)	600,000	108,000	Alternate event
Sep 1	Greater Milwaukee Open	Wisconsin	Jim Gallagher Jr. (1)	271 (−17)	900,000	162,000
Sep 9	Hardee's Golf Classic	Illinois	Joey Sindelar (6)	268 (−12)	1,000,000	180,000
Sep 16	Canadian Open	Canada	Wayne Levi (12)	278 (−10)	1,000,000	180,000
Sep 23	B.C. Open	New York	Nolan Henke (1)	268 (−16)	700,000	126,000
Sep 30	Buick Southern Open	Georgia	Kenny Knox (3)	265 (−15)	600,000	108,000
Oct 7	H.E.B. Texas Open	Texas	Mark O'Meara (6)	261 (−19)	800,000	144,000
Oct 14	Las Vegas Invitational	Nevada	Bob Tway (6)	334 (−26)	1,300,000	234,000
Oct 20	Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic	Florida	Tim Simpson (4)	264 (−24)	1,000,000	180,000
Oct 28	Nabisco Championship	Texas	Jodie Mudd (4)	273 (−11)	2,500,000	450,000

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Leaders[]

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Greg Norman	Australia	69.10
2	Larry Mize	United States	69.49
3	Tim Simpson	United States	69.73
4	Hale Irwin	United States	69.76
5	Paul Azinger	United States	69.88

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Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events	Wins
1	Greg Norman	Australia	1,165,477	17	2
2	Wayne Levi	United States	1,024,647	23	4
3	Payne Stewart	United States	976,281	26	2
4	Paul Azinger	United States	944,731	26	1
5	Jodie Mudd	United States	911,746	23	2

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Career Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Wins
1	Tom Kite	United States	6,258,893	14
2	Tom Watson	United States	5,374,232	37
3	Curtis Strange	United States	5,292,892	17
4	Jack Nicklaus	United States	5,170,465	73
5	Lanny Wadkins	United States	4,614,381	19

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Awards[]

Award	Winner	Country
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award)	Greg Norman	Australia
PGA Player of the Year	Nick Faldo	England
PGA Tour Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Trophy)	Wayne Levi	United States
Scoring leader (PGA – Vardon Trophy)	Greg Norman	Australia
Scoring leader (PGA Tour – Byron Nelson Award)	Greg Norman	Australia
Rookie of the Year	Robert Gamez	United States

References[]

External links[]

• PGA Tour official site