1998 PGA Championship

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1998 PGA Championship
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Tournament information
DatesAugust 13–16, 1998
LocationRedmond, Washington
Course(s)Sahalee Country Club
(South & North nines)
Organized byPGA of America
Tour(s)PGA Tour
PGA European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par70
Length6,906 yards (6,315 m)
Field148 players, 75 after cut[1]
Cut145 (+5)
Prize fund$3.0 million
Winner's share$540,000
Champion
Fiji Vijay Singh
271 (−9)
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1999 →

The 1998 PGA Championship was the 80th PGA Championship, held August 13–16 at Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. Vijay Singh won the first of his three major championships, two strokes ahead of runner-up Steve Stricker.[2][3][4]

This was only the tenth time the championship was played in the western half of the United States; the next was 22 years later at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. It was the third major championship held in the Pacific Northwest, all PGA Championships. The previous two were match play events, held in Spokane in 1944 and Portland in 1946.

Sahalee was scheduled to host again in 2010, but the PGA of America reversed its decision in early 2005 and moved it to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.[5][6]

Course layout[]

Main article: Sahalee Country Club

South and North nines

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 406 507 415 386 195 480 421 444 213 3,467 401 546 458 176 374 417 377 215 475 3,439 6,906
Par 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 35 4 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 35 70

Round summaries[]

First round[]

Thursday, August 13, 1998

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Tiger Woods  United States 66 −4
T2 Billy Andrade  United States 68 −2
Paul Azinger  United States
Glen Day  United States
Bob Estes  United States
Bill Glasson  United States
Scott Gump  United States
Frank Lickliter  United States
Shigeki Maruyama  Japan
T10 Russ Cochran  United States 69 −1
Trevor Dodds  Namibia
Steve Elkington  Australia
Harrison Frazar  United States
Per-Ulrik Johansson  Sweden
Scott McCarron  United States
Mark O'Meara  United States
Kenny Perry  United States
Craig Stadler  United States
Steve Stricker  United States
Bob Tway  United States

Second round[]

Friday, August 14, 1998

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Vijay Singh  Fiji 70-66=136 −4
T2 Scott Gump  United States 68-69=137 −3
Colin Montgomerie  Scotland 70-67=137
Steve Stricker  United States 69-68=137
T5 Steve Elkington  Australia 69-69=138 −2
Brad Faxon  United States 70-68=138
Davis Love III  United States 70-68=138
Andrew Magee  United States 70-68=138
Tiger Woods  United States 66-72=138
T10 John Cook  United States 71-68=139 −1
Glen Day  United States 68-71=139
David Frost  South Africa 70-69=139
Frank Lickliter  United States 68-71=139
Mark O'Meara  United States 69-70=139

Third round[]

Saturday, August 15, 1998

Place Player Country Score To par
T1 Vijay Singh  Fiji 70-66-67=203 −7
Steve Stricker  United States 69-68-66=203
T3 Steve Elkington  Australia 69-69-69=207 −3
Davis Love III  United States 70-68-69=207
Billy Mayfair  United States 73-67-67=207
T6 Skip Kendall  United States 72-68-68=208 −2
Frank Lickliter  United States 68-71-69=208
Mark O'Meara  United States 69-70-69=208
Tiger Woods  United States 66-72-70=208
T10 Robert Allenby  Australia 72-68-69=209 −1
John Cook  United States 71-68-70=209
Scott Gump  United States 68-69-72=209
John Huston  United States 70-71-68=209
Greg Kraft  United States 71-73-65=209

Final round[]

Sunday, August 16, 1998

As 54-hole co-leaders at 203 (−7), Vijay Singh and Steve Stricker were in the final pairing at noon PDT, four shots ahead of the field. Stricker stayed within a stroke until the par-3 17th, where both tee shots found the same bunker. Singh saved par but Stricker couldn't, and both parred 18; Singh shot 68 (−2) to win his first major by two strokes. Steve Elkington, the 1995 champion, carded a 67 to finish in solo third, a stroke behind Stricker. Nick Price, the champion in 1992 and 1994, shot a bogey-free 65 to equal the course record.[2][3][7]

Place Player Country Score To par Money ($)
1 Vijay Singh  Fiji 70-66-67-68=271 −9 540,000
2 Steve Stricker  United States 69-68-66-70=273 −7 324,000
3 Steve Elkington  Australia 69-69-69-67=274 −6 204,000
T4 Frank Lickliter  United States 68-71-69-68=276 −4 118,000
Mark O'Meara  United States 69-70-69-68=276
Nick Price  Zimbabwe 70-73-68-65=276
T7 Davis Love III  United States 70-68-69-70=277 −3 89,500
Billy Mayfair  United States 73-67-67-70=277
9 John Cook  United States 71-68-70-69=278 −2 80,000
T10 Skip Kendall  United States 72-68-68-71=279 −1 69,000
Kenny Perry  United States 69-72-70-68=279
Tiger Woods  United States 66-72-70-71=279

Source:[8]

Scorecard[]

Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 4
Fiji Singh −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9
United States Stricker −7 −6 −7 −8 −8 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7
Australia Elkington −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey

Source:[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tournament Info for: 1998 PGA Championship". PGA.com. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Ferguson, Doug (August 17, 1998). "It's ama-Singh; Vijay wins PGA". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. p. D1.
  3. ^ a b Parascenzo, Marino (August 17, 1998). "Singh lives dream". Toledo Blade. Ohio. p. 23.
  4. ^ Garrity, John (August 24, 1998). "Vijay the victor". Sports Illustrated. p. 32.
  5. ^ Newnham, Blaine (February 26, 2006). "Sahalee deserving of more championships". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  6. ^ Newnham, Blaine (January 27, 2005). "PGA owes Sahalee new date". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  7. ^ Dahlberg, Tim (August 17, 1998). "Big day for Vijay". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Idaho-Washington. Associated Press. p. 1C.
  8. ^ "1998 PGA Championship". databasegolf.com. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
  9. ^ "80th PGA Championship: Scorecard". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. August 17, 1998. p. D7.

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