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Sunday 1 April 1984PGA TourYear in Review
Couples wins Tournament Players Championship
TPC at Sawgrass, Stadium Course, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 29 March to Sunday 1 April 1984 · Fred Couples’s win no. 2 on the PGA Tour · purse $800,000 USD · dates from the Wikipedia event article infobox (March 29 - April 1, 1984); final round Sunday, April 1
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 19 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 66° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- R3Not yet researched
- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Lee Trevino USA · 278finished one stroke behind Couples at 278 after closing rounds of 68-68 (Wikipedia event article; Couples wins table) 1984 Tournament Players Championship - Wikipedia
144 started · cut +5, 71 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
PGA Tour event
Tournament Players Championship
TPC at Sawgrass, Stadium Course, TPC at Sawgrass, Stadium Course, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Fred Couples
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
Sports Illustrated
9 April 1984 · p. 53 From the print archive
I still think it's too hard. My wife stayed in California because we both knew I'd miss the cut again. Now she's flying in. It'll never play any easier than right now.
Sports Illustrated
9 April 1984
They're going to want to put some heat on me, but I've got to put the heat on them and I'll be all right.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fred Couples | 71 · 64 · 71 · 71 | 277 | −11 |
| 2 | Lee Trevino | 76 · 66 · 68 · 68 | 278 | −10 |
| T3 | Seve Ballesteros | 70 · 68 · 70 · 74 | 282 | −6 |
| T3 | Craig Stadler | 74 · 70 · 66 · 72 | 282 | −6 |
| T5 | Mark O'Meara | 72 · 69 · 69 · 73 | 283 | −5 |
| T5 | Lanny Wadkins | 72 · 66 · 78 · 67 | 283 | −5 |
| 7 | Nick Price | 70 · 72 · 74 · 68 | 284 | −4 |
| T8 | Dan Pohl | 74 · 69 · 71 · 71 | 285 | −3 |
| T8 | Tom Watson | 75 · 67 · 67 · 76 | 285 | −3 |
| T10 | John Mahaffey | 69 · 74 · 69 · 74 | 286 | −2 |
| T10 | Jim Thorpe | 68 · 69 · 78 · 71 | 286 | −2 |
The golfer
born 1959-10-03, Seattle, Washington; USA; turned pro 1980; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 2.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet