Bob Tway

United States · born May 4, 1959, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1major championship

PGA Championship1 win
The Open1 top 10

Summary

First major 1986 PGA Championship

Wins

1986 PGA Championship Inverness Club · 276 (-8) · by 2 strokes from Greg Norman

Near misses

1991 The Open Royal Birkdale Golf Club · finished T5 · 277 (-3)

Moments

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.
1986 PGA Championship 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.

Records and firsts

1959 PGA Championship largest 36-hole deficit overcome · 9 (1959; 1986) (Bob Rosburg; Bob Tway)

Results by championship

Best day

1986 PGA Championship

Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio · 276 (-8) · by 2 strokes from Greg Norman

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.

Chosen by rule: his widest winning margin in a major. Year page: 1986.

Career line, 1986–1991

PGA Championship

1986 PGA Championship: won

The Open

1991 The Open: finished T5

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Major win
Top 10

Bob Tway was born on May 4, 1959, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Tway won one major championship: the 1986 PGA Championship.

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The record

Wins in the majors (1)

1986 PGA Championship Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio · 276 (-8) · by 2 strokes from Greg Norman

Near misses

Top-10 finishes are listed for The Open, the one championship with a full top 10 every year.

1991 The Open Royal Birkdale Golf Club · finished T5 · 277 (-3)

Records and firsts

Rows from our record tables that name this player, worded as the tables word them.

1959 PGA Championship largest 36-hole deficit overcome · 9 (1959; 1986) (Bob Rosburg; Bob Tway)

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.