Golf Network News
Monday 11 August 1986Men’s majorsYear in Review
Tway wins PGA Championship
Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio · Thursday 7 to Monday 11 August 1986 · purse $800,000 · winner's share $145,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 51 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 63° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/20°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 31 · 2.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/19°C · wind 21 km/h WSW, gusts 49 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/17°C · wind 13 km/h W, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R425°/18°C · wind 22 km/h SW, gusts 43 · 1.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R523°/13°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 29 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- PGA Championship
1916–2026 in our record, 108 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
150 started, 73 (cut at 146) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
PGA Championship
Inverness Club, Toledo
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Greg Norman
The golfer
b. 1959-05-04, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; United States; age 27 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet