1985 PGA Tour

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The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

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  • 4 References
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Tournament results [ ]

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1985 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold .

Source: [1]

Leaders [ ]

Scoring Average leaders

Source: [2]

Money List leaders

Source: [3]

Career Money List leaders

Source: [4]

References [ ]

  • ↑ 1985 Schedule . PGA Tour.
  • ↑ Scoring Average – 1985 . PGA Tour.
  • ↑ Money Leaders – 1985 . PGA Tour.
  • ↑ Career Money Leaders – 1985 . PGA Tour.

External links [ ]

  • PGA Tour official site
  • 2 Rory McIlroy

1985 PGA Tour

The 1985 PGA Tour was the 70th season of the PGA Tour , the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was also the 17th season since separating from the PGA of America .

Unofficial events

External links.

The following table lists official events during the 1985 season. [1] [2]

The following events were sanctioned by the PGA Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. [3]

  • 1985 Senior PGA Tour
  • ↑ The number in parentheses after each winner's name is the number of PGA Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for PGA Tour members.
  • ↑ Unofficial money event at the time, but retrospectively counted as an official win.

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  • ↑ "1986 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF) . PGA Tour . Retrieved November 5, 2023 .
  • ↑ "1985 Official money" . PGA Tour. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017 . Retrieved November 5, 2023 .
  • ↑ "Lanny Wadkins PGA Player of the Year" . Centre Daily Times . State College, Pennsylvania. October 26, 1985. p.   22 (C-4 in paper) . Retrieved November 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ↑ "2022–23 PGA Tour Media guide | Awards" . PGA Tour . Retrieved October 22, 2023 .
  • ↑ "Edwards gets Pensacola Open victory | Don Pooley wins Vardon Trophy for lowest average score over 1985 tour" . Messenger-Inquirer . Owensboro, Kentucky. October 21, 1985. p.   12 (4B in paper) . Retrieved November 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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The fourth and final major professional golf competition of the year begins next Thursday on one of the special crossroads in the game’s history--the Cherry Hills Country Club.

It has been a year of change and oddity in the world of golf and it is therefore fitting that the closing major tournament of the season--the PGA Championship--takes place on a course known for the unusual and famous for its role in one of the sport’s most obvious turning points.

On a June afternoon in 1960 the game of golf rounded a corner and moved into an era which is only now beginning to drift into the history books.

The leading cast members on that day were Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer although a host of supporting players jumped on and off the stage.

Hogan came close to winning a record fifth U.S. Open (never again to challenge for it) and Nicklaus came close to winning his first.

But it was Palmer who made the most history at Cherry Hills that afternoon, knocking his opening tee shot in the final round onto the green 346 yards away, firing a 65, making up seven shots on the leader and winning his one and only Open title.

This will be the fifth major championship at Cherry Hills and the second PGA. Lee Trevino will be defending the title he won at Shoal Creek and will be returning to a course on which he was a factor during the first two rounds of the 1978 Open.

Among other things the Cherry Hills layout has become known for large-scale comeback victories.

Vic Ghezzi was three holes down with nine to play in the 1941 PGA final (the tournament was conducted as a match play event in those days), but rallied to tie Byron Nelson after the regulation 36 and went on to win on the second extra hole.

Ralph Guldahl was 10 shots behind when the final round of the 1938 U.S. Open started, but he shot a 69 to win while third-round leader Dick Metz posted a 79.

Palmer not only trailed leader Mike Souchak by seven shots with one round to go in 1960, but he had to pass 14 other players as well.

Andy North broke the string of comeback victories at Cherry Hills in the 1978 Open, but after building a five-stroke lead in the final round he had to hang on and eventually won by just one shot over Dave Stockton and J.C. Snead.

Some history repeated itself this year when North, winless since his victory at Cherry Hills, took advantage of Tze-Chung Chen’s disasters and again captured the Open by a shot with a final-round 74.

History will once more be a subject for discussion during Open week. It may not repeat itself, but at least it has a chance to which was not the case when the Open was held here seven years ago.

Palmer’s tee shot to start the final round of the 1960 Open immediately elevated the opening hole at Cherry Hills into a special place in golfing lore.

The hole measured 346 yards the day Palmer ripped that tee shot onto the green, but when the U.S. Open returned to Cherry Hills in 1978 a new tee was added which extended the hole to 399 yards.

The day before the 1978 Open began, Frank D. “Sandy” Tatum (then president of the United States Golf Association) argued that the change was for the best.

“My personal feeling,” said Tatum at the time, “is that the first green should only have been hit once from the tee, by Arnold Palmer in 1960 (actually other players reached the green that week).

“It adds another bit of history and tradition to the U.S. Open and that’s exactly what we want.”

That opinion, however, was not universally held.

Before this year’s Open, David Graham held forth on the subject of such holes as the first at Cherry Hills.

“You take the excitement out of the hole when you do that,” Graham said. “Actually you make it an easier hole. When you make it longer, you automatically lay up and it makes a par fairly routine.

“But when the hole is short and you take the risk of going for the green you can easily wind up in trouble and make a double bogey or worse.”

PGA officials agreed with Graham and many others who were of like feelings. The first hole at Cherry Hills, therefore, will return to its traditional length of 346 yards for this year’s event.

As for potential winners, the possibilities are clearly varied since variety has been the keynote on the golf circuit in 1985.

The foreign contingent is strong, although British Open winner Sandy Lyle has declined an invitation. Lyle instead will play in the Glasgow Open. The overall strength of the foreigners has been demonstrated in the major championships this year, and the wave of young players has made a huge dent in the PGA tour’s bank account.

And a quarter of a century after his famous shot Palmer plans to be there as well. He may not reach the first green with a tee shot this year, but there will likely be a number of interested people standing around the first tee when he tries.

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Golf's '85 Winners Open 1986 Season

By Gordon S. White Jr., Special To the New York Times

  • Jan. 8, 1986

Golf's '85 Winners Open 1986 Season

The PGA Tour will have a more appropriate start than in past years when the 34th annual MONY Tournament of Champions begins Wednesday at La Costa Country Club with a field of 31, the winners of 1985 tour events and the four major championships.

The tournament, something like the Super Bowl of golf, used to be held in April. But, as Deane R. Beman, the tour commissioner, said, ''It belongs at this end of the calendar and not in the middle.''

The Tournament of Champions, like the PGA Tour itself, has some new twists. There is an amateur in the field for the first time: Scott Verplank, the 1984 United States amateur champion, who won the Western Open in August. One Requirement for Entry

By winning that event Verplank fulfilled the one requirement for entry in this tournament: winning a PGA Tour official-money event or one of the four major tournaments - the United States and British Opens, the P.G.A. Championship and the Masters. Thus only 30 golfers will be competing for shares of the $500,000 purse.

Seven of the eight winners of Senior PGA Tour events in 1985 will compete in a Tournament of Champions 50-and-over group. Peter Thomson of Australia, who won a record nine Senior Tour events in 1985, will try to defend the senior title he won in this event last April.

Tom Kite, who won the tournament last year, is among the 31 golfers this time. Noticeable by their absence are Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros and Gary Player. Neither Nicklaus nor Watson won a tournament last year.

Ballesteros, the Spaniard who won the 1985 USF & G tournament in New Orleans, has been barred from 1986 PGA Tour-sanctioned events other than the USF & G because he did not compete in a minimum of 15 official tournaments in 1985. The PGA Tour Council is allowing him to defend his New Orleans title.

Ballesteros is the only one of the 32 winners - some of whom won more than once - of the 42 1985 PGA Tour events who is not present here. Player Stayed Home

Player, whose 50th birthday was on Nov. 1, played in his first senior event in November, the Boca Grove Tournament, and won it, but he opted to remain at home in South Africa this week.

Another new element is that the tournament will be held from Wednesday through Saturday instead of the usual Thursday-through-Sunday format to avoid a conflict with with National Football League playoff games on Sunday.

Not only will PGA Tour professionals compete for more than $25 million in official purses through the 43 sanctioned events of 1986 but they will also be chasing $2 million in bonus money in the new Vantage Cup competition. Bonus System for 1986

Under the Vantage Cup system, a golfer will receive 200 points for a first-place finish, 195 for second, and on down by decrements of 5 points through the 25th place (80 points) in each tourney. No one finishing 26th or worse will earn any Vantage points for that event.

The player with the most points at the end of the year will received a $500,000 bonus.

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  • 2023 - 297.2 | Leader: Rory McIlroy - 326.6
  • 2022 - 299.8 | Leader: Cameron Champ - 321.4
  • 2021 - 295.3 | Leader: Bryson DeChambeau - 320.8
  • 2020 - 296.4 | Leader: Bryson DeChambeau - 322.1
  • 2019 - 293.9 | Leader: Cameron Champ - 317.9
  • 2018 - 295.29 | Leader: Trey Mullinax - 318
  • 2017 - 292.79 | Leader: Rory McIlroy - 316.7
  • 2016 - 291.06 | Leader: J.B. Holmes - 314.5
  • 2015 - 290.21 | Leader: Dustin Johnson - 317.7
  • 2014 - 289.85 | Leader: Bubba Watson - 314.3
  • 2013 - 288.00 | Leader: Luke List - 306.3
  • 2012 - 290.07 | Leader: Bubba Watson - 315.5
  • 2011- 291.14 | Leader: J.B. Holmes - 318.4
  • 2010 - 287.49 | Leader: Robert Garrigus - 315.5
  • 2009 - 288.07 | Leader: Robert Garrigus - 312
  • 2008 - 287.74 | Leader: Bubba Watson - 315.1
  • 2007 - 289.08 | Leader: Bubba Watson - 315.2
  • 2006 - 289.35 | Leader: Bubba Watson - 319.6
  • 2005 - 288.88 | Leader: Scott Hend- 318.9
  • 2004 - 287.32 | Leader: Hank Kuehne - 314.4
  • 2003 - 286.30 | Leader: Hank Kuehne - 321.4
  • 2002 - 279.84 | Leader: John Daly - 306.8
  • 2001 - 279.35 | Leader: John Daly - 306.7
  • 2000 - 273.18| Leader: John Daly - 301.4
  • 1999 - 272.45 | Leader: John Daly - 305.6
  • 1998 - 270.63 | Leader: John Daly - 299.4
  • 1997 - 267.67 | Leader: John Daly - 302
  • 1996 - 266.49 | Leader: John Daly - 288.8
  • 1995 - 263.55 | Leader: John Daly - 289
  • 1994 - 261.84 | Leader: Davis Love III - 283.8
  • 1993 - 260.36 | Leader: John Daly - 288.9
  • 1992 - 260.52 | Leader: John Daly - 283.4
  • 1991 - 261.44 | Leader: John Daly - 288.9
  • 1990 - 262.75 | Leader: Tom Purtzer - 279.6
  • 1989 - 261.81 | Leader: Ed Humenik - 280.9
  • 1988 - 263.50 | Leader: Steve Thomas - 284.6
  • 1987 - 262.50 | Leader: John McComish - 283.9
  • 1986 - 261.58 | Leader: Davis Love III - 285.7
  • 1985 - 260.18 | Leader: Andy Bean - 278.2
  • 1984 - 259.61 | Leader: Bill Glasson - 276.5
  • 1983 - 258.65 | Leader: John McComish - 277.4
  • 1982 - 256.89 | Leader: Bill Calfee - 275.3
  • 1981 - 259.66 | Leader: Dan Pohl - 280.1
  • 1980 - 256.89 | Leader: Dan Pohl - 274.3

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Genesis Open

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A storied past.

The Genesis Invitational continues a longstanding tradition of professional golf in Southern California. Debuting in 1926 at Los Angeles Country Club as the Los Angeles Open, the tournament was staged at various courses throughout the Los Angeles area before permanently settling at The Riviera Country Club in 1973. Known as the site of Jack Nicklaus’ professional debut, Tiger Woods’ first PGA TOUR tournament and with 25 champions in the World Golf Hall of Fame, the tournament and Riviera have seen many major moments in golf history.

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  • 2023: A return to World No. 1 was in store for Jon Rahm as he held off 2021 champion Max Homa on the back nine to earn his first victory at Riviera. For Rahm, the win was the third of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season. Rahm defeated a stacked field featuring tournament host Tiger Woods and 19 of the top 20 players in the world.
  • 2022: Joaquin Niemann sets a tournament record for lowest 36 and 54 hole score on route to a wire-to-wire victory. The tournament featured its best field ever with the top 11 players in the Official World Golf Ranking competing at Riviera.
  • 2021: Valencia, CA native Max Homa wins The Genesis Invitational on the second playoff hole. Homa, who grew up attending the tournament as a kid, played 24 holes on Sunday completing his third and fourth rounds prior to the playoff. Homa did not card a bogey on Sunday at Riviera.
  • 2020: Joseph Bramlett became the first person to receive the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption for a second time. Bramlett also received the exemption in 2011.
  • 2020: Adam Scott earned an official tournament victory with his two-shot win. In 2005, Scott won a rain-shortened tournament in a playoff, an unofficial PGA TOUR win.

Pictured: 2021 champion Max Homa

  • 2018 Cameron Champ awarded the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption. Later that year, Champ becomes the first Sifford Exemption recipient to win on the PGA TOUR.
  • 2017: Dustin Johnson’s victory following weather delays forced 36 holes to be played on Sunday. The win ascended Johnson to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
  • 2015: The tournament held the first Collegiate Showcase, providing the opportunity for a college golfer to earn an exemption into the full field tournament. Will Zalatoris of Wake Forest earned the first showcase exemption into the field.
  • 2013: John Merrick became the first champion from Los Angeles County by defeating Charlie Beljan on the second playoff hole. Merrick was born and raised in Long Beach.
  • 2012: Bill Haas made a 40-foot putt to defeat Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley on the second playoff hole.

Pictured: Inaugural Collegiate Showcase winner Will Zalatoris

  • 2009: Vincent Johnson was awarded the first Charlie Sifford Memorial exemption, awarded annually to a golfer of a minority background who otherwise wouldn’t be eligible to complete.
  • 2009: Phil Mickelson became the seventh player in tournament history to win back-to-back tournaments.
  • 2007: Charles Howell III defeated Phil Mickelson on the third playoff hole.
  • 2005: Adam Scott won a playoff in a rain-shortened tournament. Only 36 holes were completed.
  • 2004: Mike Weir became the sixth player in tournament history to win back-to-back tournaments.

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Pictured: Vincent Johnson in 2009

  • 1995: Corey Pavin became the fifth player in tournament history to win back-to-back tournaments.
  • 1993: Tom Kite won in a rain-shorted tournament. Only 54 holes were completed.
  • 1992: Tiger Woods played in his first PGA TOUR event as an amateur at the age of 16.

Pictured: Tiger Woods in his PGA TOUR debut in 1992

  • 1985: Lanny Wadkins won his second LA Open with a tournament-record score of 20-under, 264.
  • 1983:  PGA Championship held at Riviera.
  • 1982: Tom Watson defeated Johnny Miller in one of the greatest comeback victories in tournament history. Watson made a 40-foot putt on the third playoff hole to defeat defending champion Johnny Miller. The win was Watson’s second LA Open victory in three years.

Pictured: the 1983 PGA Championship at Riviera

  • 1973: The LA Open returned to Riviera. The tournament remained at Riviera every year since with the exception of the 1983 and 1998 tournaments.

Pictured: Jack Nicklaus at Riviera in 1973

  • 1969: Charlie Sifford, the first African American member of the PGA TOUR, won the LA Open.
  • 1967: Arnold Palmer became the third player in tournament history to win back-to-back tournaments. The victory was Palmer’s third time in a five-year span, having also won in 1963 and 1966.
  • 1962: Jack Nicklaus won his first professional paycheck, earning $33.33.

Pictured: Charlie Sifford collecting the winner’s check in 1969

  • 1956: Lloyd Mangrum won the tournament for the fourth time, something only Macdonald Smith had previously accomplished.

Pictured: Lloyd Mangrum on the first tee in 1956

  • 1948: Ben Hogan became the second player in tournament history to win back-to-back tournaments. Hogan would also win the US Open at Riviera, causing many to begin calling the club Hogan’s Alley .
  • 1948: Bill Spiller and Ted Rhodes became the first African Americans to play in a non-USGA, PGA TOUR event, the 1948 Los Angeles Open. They both made the cut, Rhodes tying for 22 nd and Spiller tying for 29 th .
  • 1946: Babe Didrikson Zaharias made her final start in the LA Open. In her career, she would compete in seven men’s tournaments, three of which were the LA Open.
  • 1945: A birdie on the final hole gave Sam Snead a one-shot victory over Byron Nelson.
  • 1945: Babe Didrikson Zaharias made her second start in the LA Open.
  • 1943: Due to World War II, the tournament was not held.
  • 1942: Ben Hogan won his first LA Open.

Pictured: Ben Hogan on the 18th green during the 1948 US Open

  • 1938: Babe Didrikson Zaharias became the first woman to play in the LA Open. It would be the first of her three starts in the tournament.
  • 1934: Macdonald Smith became the first player to win the LA Open four times (1928-29, 1932, 1934).

Pictured: Babe Didrikson Zaharia preparing for a tournament 

  • 1929: The LA Open became the first tournament to be broadcast on radio.
  • 1929: Macdonald Smith became the first player in tournament history to win back-to-back tournaments.
  • 1926: The Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce put up a $10,000 purse for the first LA Open, the richest prize at the time in professional golf.

Pictured: The 18th green and Riviera clubhouse during the 1929 tournament

Tournament records

Host courses.

Purse progression: How The Players Championship prize money progressed over 50 years

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Players Purses: How the money for The Players Championship started good and got better over 50 years, with total purse, and winner's share in parentheses. 

1974-1975: $250,000 ($50,000 for the winner) 

Notable: Jack Nicklaus took home $18,500 more than Gary Player earned for winning the Masters as the PGA Tour established from the start that every effort would be made to make sure The Players would be the most lucrative professional tournament. 

1976-1977, $300,000 ($60,000).

1978: $344,270 ($60,000). 

1979: $437,292 ($72,000). 

1980: $440,000 ($72,000). 

1981: $435,620 ($72,000). 

1982: $500,000 ($90,000)  

Notable: The Tour celebrated moving The Players to the TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course with the largest bump in the first-place check in tournament history. Jerry Pate was kept in orange golf balls for a long time. 

1983: $700,000 ($126,000). 

1984: $800,000 ($144,000)

Notable: In just three years, the first-place check doubled for Fred Couples' victory. 

1985-1986: $900,000 ($162,000). 

1987: $1 million ($180,000)

Notable: The Players is now a million-dollar tournament. But other events, such as those at Doral or Las Vegas, matched or surpassed that figure. That changed in 1988 when The Players purse surpassed all other regular-season events. 

1988: $1.25 million ($225,000). 

1989: $1.35 million ($243,000). 

1990: $1.5 million ($270,000)

Notable: The first-place check, for the first time, surpassed the total purse for the first Players in 1974.  

1991: $1.6 million ($288,000). 

1992: $1.8 million ($324,000). 

1993-1994: $2.5 million ($450,000). 

1995: $3 million ($540,000)

Notable: The total purse doubled in five years. If winner Lee Janzen had not played in any other Tour event, he would have finished 32nd on the money list. 

1996-1997: $3.5 million ($630,000). 

1998: $4 million ($720,000). 

1999: $5 million ($900,000). 

2000-2002: $6 million ($1.08 million)

Notable: It took only another five years for the purse to double again and for the first time the winner took home a cool million. 

2003: $6.5 million ($1.17 million). 

2004-2006: $8 million ($1.44 million). 

2007: $9 million ($1.62 million) 

Notable: The move to May brought about the first increase in purse in four years, matching the longest streak when it was stagnant. 

2008-2013: $9.5 million ($1.71 million)

Notable: The purse stayed at $9.5 million for six years, the longest unchanged streak in the history of The Players. The depression of 2008 had a bit to do with that but no one who won during that period was starving. 

2014-2015: $10 million ($1.8 million)

Notable: The purse went to eight figures for the first time but FOX Sports launched a money skirmish with the U.S. Open surpassing the Players. 

2016-2017: $10.5 million ($1.89 million). 

2018: $11 million ($1.89 million). 

2019: $12.5 million ($2.25 million). 

2021: $15 million ($2.7 million). 

2022: $20 million (3.6 million)

Notable: With FOX out of the U.S. Open, The Players had returned to the top purse in golf in 2019 and doubled in seven years. 

2023-2024: $25 million ($4.5 million) 

Notable: The total purse is equal to the LIV Golf League, with the winner getting a half-million more. And Kevin Kisner, who finished in last place in 2023, earned only $1,250 less than Nicklaus hauled in for winning the first Players. 

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The Players Championship is celebrating its 50th anniversary next week, which makes this a good time to take a look back at the history of the PGA Tour and to look beyond its flagship event. Obviously, this tournament is the jewel in the crown of the tour's season, and the closest it’s come to getting a piece of the prestige that belongs to the four majors.

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Yet what made the PGA Tour what it is? The story is long and complicated, but it hinges on some critical moments that charted its course and brought it to its current state. Let's look back, starting in the very early days, at 18 moments that still aren't quite appreciated for how much they mattered in the evolution of the biggest institution in professional golf.

1930: Bob Harlow conceives year-round circuit

There are a lot of important moments in American golf that could have come before this, from Harry Vardon's tour in 1900 to Frances Ouimet's 1913 U.S. Open win to purses rising to $10,000 in tour events. But when Bob Harlow became the manager of the "PGA Tournament Bureau," he set the tone for more than 100 years of PGA Tour play. He was the one who first proposed an actual tour, and along with almost doubling prize money in his first year on the job, Harlow set the wheels in motion for all that would come next … including the volunteer structure that has become so critical to tour operations. Unless you're a serious history nerd, you've probably never heard the name Bob Harlow, but he might be one of the most important men in tour history.

1961: PGA of America strikes 'caucasians-only' clause

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Before researching Charlie Sifford's story for  last month's Local Knowledge podcast , I was largely ignorant as to the integration battles that took place in professional golf—it's certainly not as prominent as the stories in U.S. team sports, particularly baseball. But this was a process that took years, with lawsuits filed as early as 1948, and it was California Attorney General Stanley Mosk, in combination with players such as Sifford and Bill Spiller, who forced the PGA of America to move its events from the state. They complied for a short time, but the move by Mosk, and losing California from the circuit, heaped pressure on pressure, and finally the PGA of America caved. Sifford became the first full-time Black touring pro, and the struggles he endured set the tone for future black players who continued to break down the walls of discrimination.

1962: First color TV broadcast of golf

It's hard to believe we're only 60 years removed from the first color broadcast of a golf event, but it all started in 1962, when NBC, which had been televising U.S. Opens and other events in black and white, brought living color to the game with the 1962 Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas. Arnold Palmer won that event by a shot over Billy Casper, and it showed the world the possibilities of what golf could look like on the screen when the vibrant colors of tour courses could be shown in their natural state. This innovation paved the way for successive TV deals, and technological advances that have continued to the present.

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1968: The Great Breakaway; players form their own tour

Whether the PGA of America failed to understand the value it had in its touring pros, or whether it knew and was just reluctant to change, the way it lost that side of the game remains one of the most head-scratching decisions in professional golf. Here again we find a complex story, but it fundamentally boils down to the PGA of America coming down on the side of club pros who made up the majority of its membership and refusing to pay a bigger percentage of tournament profits to the players who were drawing the interest of an increasingly engaged public. It was inevitable that the players would say "enough!" In 1968, they broke off in a summer revolt that ended with the formation of the Tournament Players Division. By 1969, they had their first commissioner in Joseph Dey, and the PGA Tour was in business.

1981: Ron Streck wins with metal woods

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At the Michelob-Houston Open, Streck, a largely unheralded tour pro, became the first player to win using TaylorMade's metal woods that had been introduced two years earlier. The circumstances here were strange, in that Streck held a third-round lead and the final round was washed out by rain, making him the winner after 54 holes. Streck would never win again, but he established a precedent for the style of clubs that would take over the game before long.

1982: TPC Sawgrass opens, ushering in stadium golf

This may be the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship, but the most significant staging of the tournament was not the first in 1974, but the first after Sawgrass opened. The Pete Dye course (check out our Pete Dye podcast  here ) drove the players crazy, but the lasting significance here was the tour's foray into stadium golf, which would become a trademark of the organization as it grew to unforeseen size … and also a topic of some controversy for its biggest players.

1983: Deane Beman squashes the Nicklaus rebellion

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Deane Beman and Jack Nicklaus.

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As alluded in the preceding item, the tour's growing power, and its expansion into merchandise, course construction and other areas was seen as a threat by players such as Jack Nicklaus who wanted a significant slice of that pie for themselves and felt that the tour was ballooning into something all-encompassing. Nicklaus  made a power play that involved Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson, and was a direct challenge to Deane Beman, the tour's commissioner. Beman thoroughly out-maneuvered Nicklaus, though, with the help of certain players on his side, and the lesson Nicklaus learned was that the genie was out of the bottle. This victory for Beman removed the last check to the PGA Tour's massive growth.

1983: "All-exempt" tour instituted, and the rabbit era ends

Here, Beman instituted a new system that made the top 125 players each year on the tour exempt, ending the practice of so-called "rabbits"—up-and-coming players or those on the downside of their career, usually—making up large portions of every field through Monday qualifying. Though the format has been tweaked, the foundation established in '83 remains in use today, with golfers earning exemptions through accomplishments throughout the year.

1986: Official World Golf Ranking launched

This was not a PGA Tour initiative, but the Official World Golf Ranking would come to play a massive role in tour history, right up to the present moment as a hot button issue in the ongoing war between the tour and LIV Golf . Today, the tour is one of seven members of the OWGR company, and along with forming a key basis for exemptions into majors, it is now a leverage point that has hampered its competitors, meaning that the World Ranking only grows in influence and controversy with time.

1990: Ben Hogan Tour (now Korn Ferry) is founded

It would be many years before PGA Tour Q School left the building for good, but in 1990 the tour instituted what seemed like a logical extension of its exemption system—a true minor leagues, from which players could hone their games and earn their way onto the big circuit. Eventually, this would evolve to replace Q School entirely, and it has cycled through several sponsors (Nike, Buy.com among them). But its use as a developmental tour for the PGA Tour both extended its reach and created a reliable system for producing future stars—a system that perhaps safeguards it today against leagues like LIV without a true talent pipeline in the wings.

1994: Greg Norman's world tour bid is defeated

As the origin story for Norman's current crusade against the tour, you can harken back 30 years, when he gathered the top tour players to pitch an eight-event, 40-man world tour under the auspices of Fox TV. Unlike other rebellions before and after, this one was nipped in the bud relatively quickly when Arnold Palmer spoke out against it, saying that he and Jack Nicklaus had declined a similar opportunity in '68 because it wouldn't be good for the game. Norman went from confident to deflated instantly, and this story resonates both as an important (if easy) victory for the tour, and the inspiration for a far more difficult revolt that would come decades later with Norman again as one of the key figures.

1994: Advent of the Presidents Cup

We know, we know … you still don't think the Presidents Cup is that big. But as world golf continues to grow, and great players emerge outside of the U.S. and Europe, the institution of the Presidents Cup becomes more and more valuable. It's 30 years old now, and remember that it took the Ryder Cup almost 50 years to become competitive and resonate with the American public. The Presidents Cup has become more competitive in recent years, despite the U.S. having a commanding 12-1-1 overall lead in the series, and it feels inevitable that the International team will begin to have more success. When that happens, the tour's resilience through the lean years, and starting the competition in the first place, could look very prescient.

1996: Emergence of Tiger Woods

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Tiger Woods speaks after his first PGA Tour win in the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational.

Let's say it together: "How is this possibly under-appreciated?" The answer is that there has been no single engine for the tour's continued growth and profitability, not to mention the money hauled in from TV deals, greater than Tiger Woods. It is impossible to overstate his importance to this sport, right up to the present day, when he's been a crucial bulwark for the tour as it tries to fend off LIV. Even far past his prime, he remains the biggest draw, and everything good that has accrued to the tour and its players in the last three decades owes itself in some way to Tiger.

2007: FedExCup Playoffs begin

Starting in '07, professional golf had a playoff system for the first time, and though it took some adjusting before the tour reached a format it was (more or less) content with, it established a year-end championship that fans could follow over a series of events. Now, it goes without saying that it's not going to compete in prestige with the majors or the Players. Still, like the Presidents Cup, this is about the establishing something that can grow in importance over the years, and comparing the relative influence now to its origin, you can see an upward trajectory, albeit a slow one.

2018: End of two lawsuits—caddies and Vijay Singh

When caddies demanded something—anything to mitigate rising healthcare costs—it was a dim day for the PGA Tour when its leaders refused to budge. That changed, by all accounts, when Jay Monahan took over as commissioner, and though the caddies dropped their lawsuit, he showed a willingness to talk that ended with the loopers getting a stipend for healthcare expenses. Almost simultaneously, the defamation suit Vijay Singh filed against the tour was settled out of court, under confidential terms, ending a tense five-year standoff that began when the tour investigated him for a positive test for deer antler spray before dropping the matter … only to get sued by Singh for the public ridicule. Both were bad looks for the tour, and the conclusion felt like a clearing of the air—one that would be needed for the fight to come.

2020: COVID-19 pandemic

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Like all other sports, golf was halted in its tracks by the pandemic in March 2020, and only resumed slowly—and without fans—after being shut down for most of the spring and early summer. The curveball from the universe had the effect of forcing Monahan, still a new commissioner, to think and adjust on the fly. But something else happened that seemed to help the tour, at least briefly— it halted the momentum of the PGL in its tracks . The PGL had begun to reach a stage where it could reasonably think about signing players, but once the world shut down, Andy Gardiner's new league seemed to hit the skids. That gave the tour some breathing room, although the concept of the league would come back in a more threatening form before long.

2021: Tour forms "strategic alliance" with DP World Tour

Reading a history of late 2021 reveals that Europe's DP World Tour was on the cusp of aligning itself with the PIF in a move that could have been disastrous for the PGA Tour. Monahan's task was to nip that in the bud by forming an alliance with his European counterparts that could head off that threat and infuse a struggling DP World Tour with money. Of course, the PIF has plenty of money, too, and it was the tour's good fortune that DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley eventually sided with them. Like many of the moves the tour made in this LIV era, this was a stopgap measure; if not quite a rearguard action, survival was nip-and-tuck, and this was a coup for the tour at a difficult moment.

2023: Tour-PIF agreement

The most we can say about last June’s then-shocking framework agreement between the PGA Tour and PIF is that it's incredibly important in the tour's history, but we don't know exactly why yet. Will it indeed usher in a time when Saudi investment secures the tour's financial future, allowing it to thrive while also giving the PIF its sought-after influence in the sport? Or will it look more like a way to buy time for Monahan and Co. before going in a different direction that ultimately excluded the Saudis? Wherever history places this on that broad spectrum, it will be a key pivot moment for the tour in an ongoing battle it had previously seemed destined to lose in the moneyed trenches.

Two-time Masters champ Bernhard Langer, sidelined by pickleball injury, will be unable to compete in 2024 Masters

Bernhard Langer during the first round of the PNC Championship in Orlando, Fla.

Two-time Masters champion  Bernhard Langer tore an Achilles tendon playing pickleball, sidelining the all-time great senior player for at least three months and forcing him to miss the upcoming Masters tournament in April.

Langer, 66, told the "Musings on Golf" podcast that he was playing the increasingly popular racket sport "to stay fit" in February when he heard a "pop."

“I play all sorts of sports to stay fit, and this was part of my fitness regime,” Langer said on the podcast, which dropped Tuesday. “I was playing pickleball here in Woodfield  [ Florida ] , where I live and have a lot of fun, and, just, somebody was trying to lob me. I did a few steps backward and hit an overhead, and as I landed on the ground with my feet, I heard this huge ‘pop,’ very loud, like a gunshot."

Pickleball, which has become one of the country's fastest - growing activities , is particularly popular among senior citizens.

It resembles tennis but is played on a much smaller court, minimizing lower body movements and endurance while pushing players to maintain strong hand-eye coordination.

"And I knew right away it was a torn Achilles, because I had seen it happen to other people playing basketball and other sports," said Langer, who has a record 46 wins on the PGA Tour Champions circuit — formerly known as the Senior PGA Tour.

Langer had announced that this year's Masters, where he donned green jackets in 1985 and 1993 , would be his last.

Although he'll miss this year's tournament in Augusta , Georgia, he promised to attend the Champions Dinner , a beloved Masters tradition served on Tuesday of tournament week.

"It's one of the highlights of my year. I always look forward to the Champions Dinner just because of the aura being in the presence of some of the greatest players," he said.

"To spend two or three hours with these guys in a very intimate setting is very unique. Obviously the great food and the good wine and all of that doesn't hurt, either," he said.

Langer said he went under the knife 24 hours after the injury and was rehabbing three days later.

After four weeks of rehabilitation, Langer told the podcast, he's optimistic for a speedy recovery. He ambitiously targeted the Insperity Invitational , played near Houston on May 3-5, for his return to the tour.

"Things are looking up," he said. "I'm feeling great. I'm making progress. Yesterday was the first time I walked around without crutches, without a scooter, on my own without holding on to anything, which was very exciting."

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TUCSON, Ariz. - The PGA Tour Champions was back in Arizona for the 2024 Cologuard Classic but at La Paloma Country Club for the first time, where Joe Durant found the winner’s circle for the first time in three years.

Plenty of big names were there, with defending tournament champion David Toms, defending Charles Schwab Cup Championship winner Steve Stricker playing alongside Stewart Cink, Retief Goosen, Ernie Els, Padraig Harrington, Steven Alker, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Cologuard ambassador and tournament host Jerry Kelly. There were also some big names not in attendance.

This marked the fourth event on the tour in 2024 and the first of three on the West Coast. The total purse was $2,200,000 with the winner earning $330,000. The Jack Nicklaus design has three nine-hole courses, and the tournament used parts of each to make a composite course.

Here’s what you need to know about the week in Tucson.

Joe Durant earned first win since 2021

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Joe Durant reacts after winning the 2024 Cologuard Classic at La Paloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Joe Durant earned his first win in three years on the PGA Tour Champions with a little help from a final-round stumble from Stewart Cink.

Durant birdied three of his first nine holes during the final round of the 2024 Cologuard Classic by Exact Sciences before making bogey on No. 10. He bounced back with an eagle, his second in two days, at the par-5 11th before rattling off seven straight pars to hold serve at La Paloma Country Club and cruise home to the title.

Durant won four times on the PGA Tour and now has five wins on the PGA Tour Champions.

“I’ll be 60 in a month or so and you just wonder how many more you have in the tank,” he said. “I was just trying really hard to play well today. When you put yourself in position, you want to play well.”

Durant was nothing if not steady all week, posting scores of 67-66 before closing with a 67. He had 13 birdies and two eagles to go along with seven bogeys over three days.

There have now been 10 different winners in 10 renditions of the tournament.

Cink led by four before wheels fell off

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Stewart Cink looks for his golf ball in the in the bushes on the 15th hole during the final round of the 2024 Cologuard Classic at La Paloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Cink was making his sixth start on the PGA Tour Champions and before the tournament started, shared recollections of playing La Paloma many years ago.

“It’s been a long time since I was in Tucson. I played in a lot of the [PGA Tour] match plays that were here up at Dove Mountain and I played a tournament at this course when I was about 16 or 17 years old. A long, long time ago, like another life it feels like,” he said Thursday. “But it’s always been a good town and, like I said, desert golf is just a fun way to play.”

And it was fun again. Until it wasn’t.

Cink opened his week with a bogey-free 9-under 62 on Friday. He followed that up with a 2-under 69 Saturday, then made birdie on three of his first five holes Sunday to take a four-shot lead.

But then he started back-pedaling, and after a bogey on No. 10 he was tied for the lead at 12 under with Durant. He would go 6 over on a 10-hole stretch, bottoming out with a triple-bogey 7 on the par-4 13th hole.

Cink said it was the bogey on seventh hole that started the slide.

“Go back to the seventh hole and I can pinpoint, one of the things I pride myself on is never hitting a shot when I’m not ready to go. If I feel any doubts or, you know, something’s not comfortable, then I’m disciplined,” he said a few minutes after signing his scorecard. “On the seventh hole I felt the wind change when I was over the ball and I had just hit it and I didn’t stop, even though I kind of had some doubt. I don’t know why I let that blindside me. I hit a poor shot, ended up making bogey there. It’s not the end of the world, but that kind of blindsided me and I just wasn’t myself the rest of the day. It was kind of a gut punch out there.”

After a bogey on No. 10, he birdied the par-5 11th and parred the 12th. Course corrected? It was not. Two holes later, with a wedge in his hands, he sailed one right, his ball going into a wash that ran down the length of the hole. After stabbing at the ball with his third, he was plugged up against the wall of the wash, had to take a drop before two-putting for a triple.

“That was obviously like a dagger, a big score. I compounded my error there,” he said. “I’ve got some new things going in my golf swing and it was just sort of like a one-two punch, the daggers and then like the difficulty trusting the new stuff and it just, you know, it’s part of golf and it sucks.”

Cink went from a four-shot lead with 13 to go to a 2-over 73 and a tie for seventh.

Carts were allowed during competition and most opted in

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Miquel Angel Jimenez drives a golf cart on the 15th hole during the first round of the 2024 Cologuard Classic at La Poloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Golfers on the PGA Tour Champions have the option of using golf carts in competition. In general, few golfers use them but in inclement weather, the tour will make them available. This week, however, all but two golfers in the field hopped in a cart, and did so with their caddies, who were allowed to ride as well. Paul Goydos and Michael Wright were the lone walkers.

La Paloma, which means “the dove” in Spanish, is a Jack Nicklaus design that opened with nine holes on the Ridge course and nine on the Canyon. In 1985, a third nine dubbed the Hill was opened. The desert layout is a challenging walk, with a lot of elevation change and the carts kept the action moving.

The last time on the tour that all players over the course of 54 holes used a cart for reasons other than weather was the 2017 Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship at Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria, British Columbia.

Aces high from the second alternate

Mario Tiziani was the second alternate this week. Tim O’Neal was first and heard his name called after Rob Labritz withdrew Monday. On Tuesday, Tiziani got in when Brandt Jobe withdrew. On Saturday, Tiziani made a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th, his eighth hole of his second round.

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“I used an 8,” he said. “When I hit it I thought it was a little too far. And then I couldn’t see it. It was a blast, I needed it.”

He did have two double bogeys in his round and shot a 1-over 72 but consider Stricker impressed.

“Hole-in-one. He can buy dinner then. He bought last night, he can buy again,” quipped Stricker. “So he teed off on the back first. Wow, birdie, birdie, eagle, hole-in-one. That’s pretty good.”

It’s Tiziani’s first ace in what is now his 37th start on the circuit.

A few big names were missing

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The 15th green during the first round of the 2024 Cologuard Classic at La Poloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

John Daly was also an alternate but he was eighth on that list and only two alternates got in. Daly did injure his hand earlier this season and despite making the trip to the tour’s recent Morroco event, maybe a little extra time off helped.

Bernhard Langer, a tour stalwart and 2020 champion of the event, is out for the year after suffering an Achilles’ tendon tear five weeks ago.

Jim Furyk, who’s lived in Florida for many years but was on the University of Arizona Wildcats team in college in the ’90s, has been battling a balky back and didn’t play this week.

Davis Love III withdrew with a hand injury after the second round. Kirk Triplett was disqualified after the first round for using a non-conforming club.

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    1985: Lanny Wadkins won his second LA Open with a tournament-record score of 20-under, 264. 1983: PGA Championship held at Riviera. 1982: Tom Watson defeated Johnny Miller in one of the greatest comeback victories in tournament history. Watson made a 40-foot putt on the third playoff hole to defeat defending champion Johnny Miller. The win was Watson's second LA Open victory in three years.

  19. Players Championship purse: What winner gets in 2024, how it's changed

    The PGA Tour has attempted to keep The Players Championship as the richest purse in golf. In most of the last 50 years, it has succeeded. ... 1985-1986: $900,000 ($162,000). ...

  20. 1985 Senior PGA Tour

    The 1985 Senior PGA Tour was the sixth season of the Senior PGA Tour, the main professional golf tour in the United States for men aged 50 and over. Schedule. The following table lists official events during the 1985 season. Date Tournament Location Purse Winner Notes Feb 10: Sunrise Senior Classic: Florida ...

  21. PGA Tour Golf: News, Schedule, Highlights & More

    Last year's KFT player of the year leads at Puerto Rico Open. Ben Kohles has a two-shot lead entering the final round of the PGA Tour event. Associated Press. 22h.

  22. The 18 most underappreciated events in PGA Tour history

    It would be many years before PGA Tour Q School left the building for good, but in 1990 the tour instituted what seemed like a logical extension of its exemption system—a true minor leagues ...

  23. Pickleball injury forces golfer Bernhard Langer to miss The Masters

    ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 22: PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan speaks to the media prior to the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on August 22, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C ...

  24. 1985 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

    This is a list of the 1985 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates. History. Fifty players earned their 1986 PGA Tour card through Q-School in 1985. The tournament was played over 108 holes at the Grenelefe Golf and Tennis Resort, West and South courses, in Haines City, Florida. The top 50 players split the $100,000 purse, with the winner earning ...

  25. Relive 50 defining moments in THE PLAYERS history

    13. 1985 - Nobody ever hit the ball straighter than Calvin Peete; he led the TOUR in driving accuracy for eight consecutive seasons. At the height of his powers, he used his precision to deliver ...

  26. Two-time Masters champ Bernhard Langer, sidelined by pickleball injury

    Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer tore an Achilles tendon playing pickleball, sidelining the all-time great senior player for at least three months and forcing him to miss the upcoming ...

  27. 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational: Prize money payout for each golfer

    The Arnold Palmer Invitational is the fourth Signature Event of the 2024 PGA Tour season. ... By 1985, it had surpassed the $500,000 mark, and six years later, it hit the $1 million mark.

  28. PGA TOUR Player Stats, Bio, Career

    1985: PGA TOUR Productions created: 1986: Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational offers first $1-million purse in PGA TOUR history: 1987: PGA TOUR surpasses $100 million in charitable contributions:

  29. 1984 PGA Tour

    1985 → . The 1984 PGA Tour was the 69th season of the PGA Tour, the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was also the 16th season since separating from the PGA of America. Schedule. The following table lists official events during the 1984 season. Date ...

  30. Takeaways from PGA Tour Champions 2024 Cologuard Classic

    TUCSON, Ariz. - The PGA Tour Champions was back in Arizona for the 2024 Cologuard Classic but at La Paloma Country Club for the first time, where Joe Durant found the winner's circle for the first time in three years. ... In 1985, a third nine dubbed the Hill was opened. The desert layout is a challenging walk, with a lot of elevation change ...