1994 PGA Championship

The 1994 PGA Championship was the 76th PGA Championship, held August 11–14 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nick Price led wire-to-wire (he shared the first round lead and then led on his own after every other round) and won his third and final major title, six strokes ahead of runner-up Corey Pavin.^[2] It was Price's second consecutive major and second PGA Championship in three years.^[3] Following this win, he moved to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.^[4]

1994 PGA Championship

Tournament information
Dates	August 11–14, 1994
Location	Tulsa, Oklahoma
Course(s)	Southern Hills Country Club
Organized by	PGA of America
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	6,834 yards (6,249 m)
Field	151 players, 76 after cut[1]
Cut	145 (+5)
Prize fund	$1,750,000
Winner's share	$310,000
Champion
Nick Price
269 (−11)
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Southern Hills Country Club

Location in the United States

Price became the first to win the Open Championship and PGA Championship in the same year in seven decades, last by Walter Hagen in 1924. Greg Norman had just missed the previous year, losing in a playoff; it was later accomplished by Tiger Woods in 2000 and 2006, Pádraig Harrington in 2008, and Rory McIlroy in 2014.

Price's 269 was a record for the event, passing the 271 of Bobby Nichols set thirty years earlier in 1964.^[5] It lasted just a year, lowered to 267 in 1995 at Riviera by Steve Elkington and Colin Montgomerie.^[6] (It was further lowered in 2001 by David Toms' 265.)

Price's 6-stroke win was the largest margin of victory at a major championship between Jack Nicklaus' 7-stroke victory at the 1980 PGA Championship and Tiger Woods' 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters Tournament. Price later described it as the best he'd ever played.^[7]

This was the fifth major held at Southern Hills; it previously hosted the PGA Championship in 1970 and 1982 and the U.S. Open in 1958 and 1977. It later hosted the U.S. Open in 2001 and the PGA Championship in 2007 and 2022.

Course layout

Main article: Southern Hills Country Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	456	458	405	368	605	175	382	215	374	3,447	376	164	448	537	207	405	468	352	430	3,387	6,834
Par	4	4	4	4	5	3	4	3	4	35	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	35	70

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 11, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Colin Montgomerie	67	−3
	Nick Price
T3	Fred Couples	68	−2
	Ernie Els
	Phil Mickelson
	Ian Woosnam
T7	Raymond Floyd	69	−1
	David Gilford
	Loren Roberts
	Sam Torrance
	Lanny Wadkins
	Tom Watson
	D. A. Weibring
	Fuzzy Zoeller

Second round

Friday, August 12, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Nick Price	67-65=132	−8
T2	Ben Crenshaw	70-67=137	−3
	Jay Haas	71-66=137
	Corey Pavin	70-67=137
T5	John Cook	71-67=138	−2
	Blaine McCallister	74-64=138
	José María Olazábal	72-66=138
T8	Glen Day	70-69=139	−1
	Ernie Els	68-71=139
	Phil Mickelson	68-71=139
	Gil Morgan	71-68=139
	Frank Nobilo	72-67=139
	Craig Parry	70-69=139

Third round

Saturday, August 13, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Nick Price	67-65-70=202	−8
2	Jay Haas	71-66-68=205	−5
T3	Corey Pavin	70-67-69=206	−4
	Phil Mickelson	68-71-67=206
T5	John Cook	71-67-69=207	−3
	Ben Crenshaw	70-67-70=207
	Greg Norman	71-69-67=207
T8	Ernie Els	68-71-69=208	−2
	José María Olazábal	72-66-70=208
	Loren Roberts	69-72-67=208
	Jeff Sluman	70-72-66=208
	Tom Watson	69-72-67=208

Final round

Sunday, August 14, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Nick Price	67-65-70-67=269	−11	310,000
2	Corey Pavin	70-67-69-69=275	−5	160,000
3	Phil Mickelson	68-71-67-70=276	−4	110,000
T4	John Cook	71-67-69-70=277	−3	76,667
	Nick Faldo	73-67-71-66=277
	Greg Norman	71-69-67-70=277
T7	Steve Elkington	73-70-66-69=278	−2	57,500
	José María Olazábal	72-66-70-70=278
T9	Ben Crenshaw	70-67-70-72=279	−1	41,000
	Tom Kite	72-68-69-70=279
	Loren Roberts	69-72-67-71=279
	Tom Watson	69-72-67-71=279
	Ian Woosnam	68-72-73-66=279

Source:^[8]