1997 PGA Tour

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The 1997 PGA Tour season was played from January 9 to November 2. The season consisted of 45 official money events. Tiger Woods won the most tournaments, four, and there were six first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

[edit] Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1997 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.

Date Tournament Location Winner Score 1st Prize ($)
Jan 12 Mercedes Championship California Flag of the United States Tiger Woods (3) 202 (-14) 216,000
Jan 19 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic California Flag of the United States John Cook (9) 327 (-33) 270,000
Jan 26 Phoenix Open Arizona Flag of the United States Steve Jones (6) 258 (-26) 270,000
Feb 2 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am California Flag of the United States Mark O'Meara (13) 268 (-20) 342,000
Feb 9 Buick Invitational California Flag of the United States Mark O'Meara (14) 275 (-13) 270,000
Feb 16 United Airlines Hawaiian Open Hawaii Flag of the United States Paul Stankowski (2) 271 (-17) 216,000
Feb 23 Tucson Chrysler Classic Arizona Flag of the United States Jeff Sluman (2) 275 (-13) 234,000
Mar 2 Nissan Open California Flag of England Nick Faldo (9) 272 (-12) 252,000
Mar 9 Doral-Ryder Open Florida Flag of Australia Steve Elkington (7) 275 (-13) 324,000
Mar 16 Honda Classic Florida Flag of Australia Stuart Appleby (1) 274 (-14) 270,000
Mar 23 Bay Hill Invitational Florida Flag of the United States Phil Mickelson (10) 272 (-16) 270,000
Mar 30 The Players Championship Florida Flag of Australia Steve Elkington (8) 272 (-16) 630,000
Apr 6 Freeport-McDermott Classic Louisiana Flag of the United States Brad Faxon (4) 272 (-16) 270,000
Apr 13 Masters Georgia Flag of the United States Tiger Woods (4) 270 (-18) 486,000
Apr 20 MCI Classic South Carolina Flag of Zimbabwe Nick Price (16) 269 (-15) 270,000
Apr 27 Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic North Carolina Flag of New Zealand Frank Nobilo (1) 274 (-14) 342,000
May 4 Shell Houston Open Texas Flag of the United States Phil Blackmar (3) 276 (-12) 288,000
May 11 BellSouth Classic Georgia Flag of the United States Scott McCarron (2) 274 (-14) 270,000
May 18 GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic Texas Flag of the United States Tiger Woods (5) 263 (-17) 324,000
May 25 MasterCard Colonial Texas Flag of South Africa David Frost (10) 265 (-15) 288,000
Jun 2 Memorial Tournament Ohio Flag of Fiji Vijay Singh (4) 202 (-14) 342,000
Jun 8 Kemper Open Maryland Flag of the United States Justin Leonard (2) 274 (-10) 270,000
Jun 15 U.S. Open Maryland Flag of South Africa Ernie Els (4) 276 (-4) 465,000
Jun 22 Buick Classic New York Flag of South Africa Ernie Els (5) 268 (-16) 270,000
Jun 29 FedEx St. Jude Classic Tennessee Flag of Australia Greg Norman (19) 268 (-16) 270,000
Jul 6 Motorola Western Open Illinois Flag of the United States Tiger Woods (6) 275 (-13) 360,000
Jul 13 Quad City Classic Illinois Flag of the United States David Toms (1) 265 (-15) 243,000
Jul 20 Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic Mississippi Flag of the United States Billy Ray Brown (3) 271 (-17) 180,000
Jul 20 British Open Scotland Flag of the United States Justin Leonard (3) 272 (-12) 418,875
Jul 27 Canon Greater Hartford Open Connecticut Flag of the United States Stewart Cink (1) 267 (-13) 270,000
Aug 3 Sprint International Colorado Flag of the United States Phil Mickelson (11) 48 (Stableford) 306,000
Aug 10 Buick Open Michigan Flag of Fiji Vijay Singh (5) 273 (-15) 270,000
Aug 17 PGA Championship New York Flag of the United States Davis Love III (11) 269 (-11) 470,000
Aug 24 NEC World Series of Golf Ohio Flag of Australia Greg Norman (20) 273 (-7) 396,000
Aug 24 Greater Vancouver Open Canada Flag of the United States Mark Calcavecchia (9) 265 (-19) 270,000
Aug 31 Greater Milwaukee Open Wisconsin Flag of the United States Scott Hoch (8) 268 (-16) 234,000
Sep 7 Bell Canadian Open Canada Flag of the United States Steve Jones (7) 275 (-5) 270,000
Sep 14 CVS Charity Classic Massachusetts Flag of the United States Loren Roberts (5) 266 (-18) 216,000
Sep 21 LaCantera Texas Open Texas Flag of the United States Tim Herron (2) 271 (-17) 252,000
Sep 28 B.C. Open New York Flag of Sweden Gabriel Hjertstedt (1) 275 (-13) 234,000
Oct 5 Buick Challenge Georgia Flag of the United States Davis Love III (12) 267 (-21) 216,000
Oct 12 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Virginia Flag of the United States David Duval (1) 271 (-13) 279,000
Oct 19 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic Florida Flag of the United States David Duval (2) 270 (-18) 270,000
Oct 26 Las Vegas Invitational Nevada Flag of the United States Bill Glasson (7) 340 (-20) 324,000
Nov 2 The Tour Championship Texas Flag of the United States David Duval (3) 273 (-11) 720,000

[edit] Leaders

Scoring Average leaders

Rank Player Country Average
1 Nick Price Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 68.98
2 Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States 69.10
3 Greg Norman Flag of Australia Australia 69.16
4 Davis Love III Flag of the United States United States 69.47
5 Tom Lehman Flag of the United States United States 69.62

Full 1997 Scoring Average List

Money List leaders

Rank Player Country Earnings ($) Events Wins
1 Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States 2,066,833 21 4
2 David Duval Flag of the United States United States 1,885,308 29 3
3 Davis Love III Flag of the United States United States 1,635,953 25 2
4 Jim Furyk Flag of the United States United States 1,619,480 27 0
5 Justin Leonard Flag of the United States United States 1,587,531 29 2

Full 1997 Official Money List

Career Money List leaders

Rank Player Country Earnings ($) Wins
1 Greg Norman Flag of Australia Australia 11,910,518 20
2 Tom Kite Flag of the United States United States 10,286,177 19
3 Fred Couples Flag of the United States United States 8,885,487 12
4 Nick Price Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 8,794,431 16
5 Mark O'Meara Flag of the United States United States 8,506,774 14

Full 1997 Career Official Money List

[edit] Awards

Award Winner Country
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award) Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States
PGA Player of the Year Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States
PGA Tour Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Trophy) Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States
Scoring leader (PGA - Vardon Trophy) Nick Price Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Scoring leader (PGA Tour - Byron Nelson Award) Nick Price Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Rookie of the Year Stewart Cink Flag of the United States United States
Comeback Player of the Year Bill Glasson Flag of the United States United States

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