1986 PGA Championship: Bob Tway wins at Inverness Club
Bob Tway won the 1986 PGA Championship at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio with 276 (−8), by 2 strokes over Greg Norman.
Updated October 23, 2026
See 1986 in Wanamaker Avenue, the PGA Championship room, or every year on the PGA Championship winners list.
- Dates
- August 7, 1986 to August 11, 1986
- Course
- Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio
- Edition
- 68th PGA Championship
- Format
- stroke play
- Par
- 71 · 6,982 yards
- Field
- 150
- Made the cut
- 73 (cut at 146)
- Purse
- $800,000 · winner's share $145,000
- Champion
- Bob Tway · age 27 · United States · born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Champion's title
- 1st PGA Championship
- Winning score
- 72-70-64-70 = 276 (−8) · won by 2 strokes
- Runner-up
- Greg Norman
- 54-hole leader
- Greg Norman (202) · Bob Tway was 4 strokes back
- Low club professional
- Lonnie Nielsen (284)
Winner and runner-up
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob Tway | 72 | 70 | 64 | 70 | 276 | −8 |
| 2 | Greg Norman | 65 | 68 | 69 | 76 | 278 | −6 |
What happened at the 1986 PGA Championship
Tway holed a soft bunker shot from beside the 354-yard 18th green for a birdie that beat Greg Norman, in a final round pushed to Monday by Sunday rain.
Norman, the 54-hole leader by four, shot 76 with a double bogey at 11 and a bogey at 14, so Tway erased the four-stroke deficit over the last eight holes.
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's PGA Championship data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.
Data: pga.json (the PGA Championship room's data: Tables 1A–1H).