The 1993 PGA Championship was the 75th PGA Championship, held August 12–15 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

Paul Azinger won his only major title on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Greg Norman. Azinger birdied four of the last seven holes to get into the playoff. Norman, the 1993 Open champion, joined Craig Wood as the only players to lose playoffs in all four major championships. It was the fifth playoff under the sudden-death format at the PGA Championship, first used in 1977.

Norman was attempting to become the first player to win the Open Championship and PGA Championship in the same year since Walter Hagen in 1924. It was accomplished the following year by Nick Price, and later by Tiger Woods in 2000 and 2006, Pádraig Harrington in 2008 and Rory McIlroy in 2014.

It was the sixth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the PGA Championship in 1986 and four U.S. Opens (1920, 1931, 1957, and 1979). Norman was also the British Open champion and PGA runner-up in 1986, when Bob Tway holed out from a greenside bunker at the 72nd hole for birdie. Forced to sink his chip to tie, Norman ran it past and bogeyed.

Tom Watson, age 43, was in search of a PGA Championship win to complete a career grand slam. He was a stroke behind after 54 holes, but bogeyed three of the first five holes and finished four strokes back in fifth. Watson later had top ten finishes in 1994 and 2000, but never won the title.

Course layout

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotalYards3983851944664092104525544203,4883633781705154484654094353543,5377,025Par443443454354435444443671 Source:

Lengths of the course for previous major championships: , par 71 - 1986 PGA Championship , par 71 - 1979 U.S. Open , par 71 - 1957 U.S. Open , par 71 - 1931 U.S. Open , par 71 - 1920 U.S. Open

Round summaries First round Thursday, August 12, 1993

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Scott Simpson64−72 Lanny Wadkins65−6T3 Dudley Hart66−5 Richard ZokolT5 Steve Elkington67−4 Dan Forsman Robert Gamez Mike Hulbert Barry Lane Mark McCumber Phil Mickelson Loren Roberts Eduardo Romero

Second round Friday, August 13, 1993 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Vijay Singh68-63=131−11T2 Steve Elkington67-66=133−9 Lanny Wadkins65-68=133T4 Dudley Hart66-68=134−8 Eduardo Romero67-67=134 Scott Simpson64-70=134 Tom Watson69-65=134T8 Paul Azinger69-66=135−7 Bob Estes69-66=135 Frank Nobilo69-66=135

Third round Saturday, August 14, 1993

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Greg Norman68-68-67=203−10T2 Paul Azinger69-66-69=204−9 Bob Estes69-66-69=204 Hale Irwin68-69-67=204 Vijay Singh68-63-73=204 Lanny Wadkins65-68-71=204 Tom Watson69-65-70=204T8 Nick Faldo68-68-69=205−8 Brad Faxon70-70-65=205 Dudley Hart66-68-71=205 Scott Simpson64-70-71=205

Final round Sunday, August 15, 1993 PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T1 Paul Azinger 69-66-69-68=272 −12 Playoff Greg Norman 68-68-67-69=2723 Nick Faldo 68-68-69-68=273 −11 105,0004 Vijay Singh 68-63-73-70=274 −10 90,0005 Tom Watson 69-65-70-72=276 −8 75,000T6 John Cook 72-66-68-71=277 −7 47,813 Bob Estes 69-66-69-73=277 Dudley Hart 66-68-71-72=277 Nolan Henke 72-70-67-68=277 Scott Hoch 74-68-68-67=277 Hale Irwin 68-69-67-73=277 Phil Mickelson 67-71-69-70=277 Scott Simpson 64-70-71-72=277 Source:

Scorecard BirdieBogeyDouble bogey Final round Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18 Par443443454 443544444 Azinger −9−9−9−9−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−9−10−11−11−11−12−12 Norman −10−10−11−11−11−9−8−9−9−9−10−10−11 −11−11−12−12−12 Faldo −8−8−8−8−8−8−9−10−10−10−10−10−11−11−11−11−11−11 Singh −9−8−8−9−9−9−9−10−10−10−10−10−11−11−11−10−10−10 Watson −8−8−7−8−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source:

Playoff The sudden-death playoff began on the 18th hole, a par-4. Both narrowly missed birdie putts and tapped in for pars, and went to the next hole, the 10th at . Again both hit the fairway and the green. Norman's downhill birdie attempt ended short, and Azinger's from lipped out, and he tapped in for par. Norman's attempt to save par also rimmed out, and the playoff was over. PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Paul Azinger 4-4E300,0002 Greg Norman 4-x +1155,000 Sudden-death playoff was played on holes 18 and 10, both par fours.

References

External links PGA.com – 1993 PGA Championship Yahoo! Sports: 1993 PGA Championship leaderboard