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. It was Price's second consecutive major and second PGA Championship in three years. Following this win, he moved to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.

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. It lasted just a year, lowered to 267 in 1995 at Riviera by Steve Elkington and Colin Montgomerie. (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.

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

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Round summaries First round Thursday, August 11, 1994

PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Colin Montgomerie67−3 Nick PriceT3 Fred Couples68−2 Ernie Els Phil Mickelson Ian WoosnamT7 Raymond Floyd69−1 David Gilford Loren Roberts Sam Torrance Lanny Wadkins Tom Watson D. A. Weibring Fuzzy Zoeller

Second round Friday, August 12, 1994 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Nick Price67-65=132−8T2 Ben Crenshaw70-67=137−3 Jay Haas71-66=137 Corey Pavin70-67=137T5 John Cook71-67=138−2 Blaine McCallister74-64=138 José María Olazábal72-66=138T8 Glen Day70-69=139−1 Ernie Els68-71=139 Phil Mickelson68-71=139 Gil Morgan71-68=139 Frank Nobilo72-67=139 Craig Parry70-69=139

Third round Saturday, August 13, 1994

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Nick Price67-65-70=202−82 Jay Haas71-66-68=205−5T3 Corey Pavin70-67-69=206−4 Phil Mickelson68-71-67=206T5 John Cook71-67-69=207−3 Ben Crenshaw70-67-70=207 Greg Norman71-69-67=207T8 Ernie Els68-71-69=208−2 José María Olazábal72-66-70=208 Loren Roberts69-72-67=208 Jeff Sluman70-72-66=208 Tom Watson69-72-67=208

Final round Sunday, August 14, 1994 PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Nick Price 67-65-70-67=269 −11 310,0002 Corey Pavin 70-67-69-69=275 −5 160,0003 Phil Mickelson 68-71-67-70=276 −4 110,000T4 John Cook 71-67-69-70=277 −3 76,667 Nick Faldo 73-67-71-66=277 Greg Norman 71-69-67-70=277T7 Steve Elkington 73-70-66-69=278 −2 57,500 José María Olazábal 72-66-70-70=278T9 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:

References

External links PGA.com – 1994 PGA Championship Yahoo! Sports: 1994 PGA Championship leaderboard