The 1998 PGA Championship was the 80th PGA Championship, held August 13–16 at Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. Vijay Singh won the first of his three major championships, two strokes ahead of runner-up Steve Stricker.

This was only the tenth time the championship was played in the western half of the United States; the next was 22 years later at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. It was the third major championship held in the Pacific Northwest, all PGA Championships. The previous two were match play events, held in Spokane in 1944 and Portland in 1946.

Sahalee was scheduled to host again in 2010, but the PGA of America reversed its decision in early 2005 and moved it to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

Course layout

South and North nines Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotalYards4065074153861954804214442133,4674015464581763744173772154753,4396,906Par454434443354543444343570 Holes 6 and 18 are par fives for members

Round summaries First round Thursday, August 13, 1998 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Tiger Woods66−4T2 Billy Andrade68−2 Paul Azinger Glen Day Bob Estes Bill Glasson Scott Gump Frank Lickliter Shigeki MaruyamaT10 Russ Cochran69−1 Trevor Dodds Steve Elkington Harrison Frazar Per-Ulrik Johansson Scott McCarron Mark O'Meara Kenny Perry Craig Stadler Steve Stricker Bob Tway

Second round Friday, August 14, 1998 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Vijay Singh70-66=136−4T2 Scott Gump68-69=137−3 Colin Montgomerie70-67=137 Steve Stricker69-68=137T5 Steve Elkington69-69=138−2 Brad Faxon70-68=138 Davis Love III70-68=138 Andrew Magee70-68=138 Tiger Woods66-72=138T10 John Cook71-68=139−1 Glen Day68-71=139 David Frost70-69=139 Frank Lickliter68-71=139 Mark O'Meara69-70=139

Third round Saturday, August 15, 1998 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Vijay Singh70-66-67=203−7 Steve Stricker69-68-66=203T3 Steve Elkington69-69-69=207−3 Davis Love III70-68-69=207 Billy Mayfair73-67-67=207T6 Skip Kendall72-68-68=208−2 Frank Lickliter68-71-69=208 Mark O'Meara69-70-69=208 Tiger Woods66-72-70=208T10 Robert Allenby72-68-69=209 −1 John Cook71-68-70=209 Scott Gump68-69-72=209 John Huston70-71-68=209 Greg Kraft71-73-65=209

Final round Sunday, August 16, 1998

As 54-hole co-leaders at 203 (−7), Vijay Singh and Steve Stricker were in the final pairing at noon PDT, four shots ahead of the field. Stricker stayed within a stroke until the par-3 17th, where both tee shots found the same bunker. Singh saved par but Stricker couldn't, and both parred 18; Singh shot 68 (−2) to win his first major by two strokes. Steve Elkington, the 1995 champion, carded a 67 to finish in solo third, a stroke behind Stricker. Nick Price, the champion in 1992 and 1994, shot a bogey-free 65 to equal the course record. PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Vijay Singh 70-66-67-68=271 −9 540,0002 Steve Stricker 69-68-66-70=273 −7 324,0003 Steve Elkington 69-69-69-67=274 −6 204,000T4 Frank Lickliter 68-71-69-68=276 −4 118,000 Mark O'Meara 69-70-69-68=276 Nick Price 70-73-68-65=276T7 Davis Love III 70-68-69-70=277 −3 89,500 Billy Mayfair 73-67-67-70=2779 John Cook 71-68-70-69=278 −2 80,000T10 Skip Kendall 72-68-68-71=279 −1 69,000 Kenny Perry 69-72-70-68=279 Tiger Woods 66-72-70-71=279 Source:

Scorecard Final round Hole123456789101112131415161718Par454434443454344434 Singh −7−7−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8−9−8−8−9−9−9−9−9 Stricker −7−6−7−8−8−7−7−7−6−6−7−7−7−8−8−8−7−7 Elkington −3−3−4−4−4−4−4−3−4−4−5−5−5−6−6−6−7−6 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Double Eagle Eagle -->BirdieBogey Source:

References

External links Full results PGA.com – 1998 PGA Championship