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1983 PGA Championship

Field	Value
name	1983 PGA Championship
image	RivieraCountryClub18th.jpg
image_size	240
caption	Finishing hole at Riviera Country Club
dates	August 4–7, 1983
location	Los Angeles, California
course	Riviera Country Club
org	PGA of America
tour	PGA Tour
par	71
yardage	6946 yd
field	150 players, 87 after cut
cut	147 (+5)
purse	$600,000
winners_share	$100,000
champion	USA Hal Sutton
score	274 (−10)
previous	[1982](1982-pga-championship)
next	[1984](1984-pga-championship)
map	USA#USA California
map_relief	yes
map_label	Riviera Country Club
map_caption	Location in the United States##Location in California
coordinates

The 1983 PGA Championship was the 65th PGA Championship, held August 4–7 at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, California. Hal Sutton led wire-to-wire to win his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus, a five-time champion. Nicklaus shot a final round 66 (−5) for his 19th and final runner-up finish in a major championship. Sutton was under scrutiny as he entered the weekend; two weeks earlier in Virginia, he had a six-shot lead after 54 holes, shot a final round 77, and finished third.

It was the second major at Riviera, following the U.S. Open in 1948, won by Ben Hogan. The PGA Championship returned to the course in 1995, and it hosts a regular event on the PGA Tour, originally known as the Los Angeles Open.

Only the third PGA Championship in California, it was preceded by 1929 in Los Angeles at Hillcrest and 1977 at Pebble Beach. The 1962 event was originally awarded to Brentwood in L.A., but was moved to Philadelphia at Aronimink.

This was the first major championship to award a six-figure winner's share, $100,000, increasing from the $65,000 of the previous year. The first five-figure winner's share in a major was the 1958 Masters and the 2001 Masters was the first to break seven figures.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 4, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Hal Sutton	65	−6
T2	USA Scott Simpson	66	−5
USA Buddy Whitten
T4	USA Danny Edwards	67	−4
USA John Fought
USA Bruce Lietzke
T7	USA Ben Crenshaw	68	−3
USA Keith Fergus
USA Jay Haas
USA Pat McGowan
USA Jim Thorpe

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Second round

Friday, August 5, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Hal Sutton	65-66=131	−11
2	USA Ben Crenshaw	68-66=134	−8
3	USA Pat McGowan	68-67=135	−7
T4	USA John Fought	67-69=136	−6
USA Gibby Gilbert	70-66=136
USA Buddy Whitten	66-70=136
T7	USA Keith Fergus	68-70=138	−4
USA Bruce Lietzke	67-71=138
USA Jack Nicklaus	73-65=138
USA Lee Trevino	70-68=138

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Third round

Saturday, August 6, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Hal Sutton	65-66-72=203	−10
2	USA Ben Crenshaw	68-66-71=205	−8
3	USA John Fought	67-69-71=207	−6
T4	USA Bruce Lietzke	67-71-70=208	−5
USA Pat McGowan	68-67-73=208
USA Larry Nelson	68-67-73=208
T7	USA Jay Haas	68-72-69=209	−4
USA Jack Nicklaus	73-65-71=209
USA Scott Simpson	66-73-70=209
USA Buddy Whitten	66-70-73=209

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Final round

Sunday, August 7, 1983

Final leaderboard

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	USA Hal Sutton	65-66-72-71=274	−10	100,000
2	USA Jack Nicklaus (c)	73-65-71-66=275	−9	60,000
3	USA Peter Jacobsen	73-70-68-65=276	−8	40,000
4	USA Pat McGowan	68-67-73-69=277	−7	30,000
5	USA John Fought	67-69-71-71=278	−6	25,000
T6	USA Bruce Lietzke	67-71-70-71=279	−5	19,000
USA Fuzzy Zoeller	72-71-67-69=279
8	USA Dan Pohl	72-70-69-69=280	−4	16,000
T9	USA Ben Crenshaw	68-66-71-77=282	−2	10,880
USA Jay Haas	68-72-69-73=282
USA Mike Reid	69-71-72-70=282
USA Scott Simpson	66-73-70-73=282
USA Doug Tewell	74-72-69-67=282

Leaderboard below the top 10	Place	Player	Score	To par
T14	USA Keith Fergus	68-70-72-73=283	−1	6,750
AUS David Graham (c)	70-69-74-70=283
USA Hale Irwin	72-70-73-68=283
USA Roger Maltbie	71-71-71-70=283
USA Jim Thorpe	68-72-74-69=283
USA Lee Trevino (c)	70-68-74-71=283
T20	USA John Cook	74-71-68-71=284	E	4,750
USA Danny Edwards	67-76-71-70=284
USA Raymond Floyd (c)	69-75-71-69=284
T23	USA Chip Beck	72-71-70-72=285	+1	3,913
USA Fred Couples	71-70-73-71=285
USA Jerry Pate	69-72-70-74=285
USA Don Pooley	72-68-74-71=285
T27	ESP Seve Ballesteros	71-76-72-67=286	+2	3,200
USA Bobby Wadkins	73-72-74-67=286
USA Buddy Whitten	66-70-73-77=286
T30	USA Andy Bean	71-73-71-72=287	+3	2,650
USA Bob Boyd	70-77-72-68=287
USA Johnny Miller	72-75-73-67=287
USA Mark Pfeil	73-71-70-73=287
USA Jim Simons	69-75-72-71=287
USA Tom Weiskopf	76-70-69-72=287
T36	USA Jim Colbert	73-66-76-73=288	+4	2,088
USA Larry Nelson (c)	72-68-68-80=288
USA Bobby Nichols (c)	75-69-74-70=288
USA Calvin Peete	69-71-76-72=288
USA Bob Shearer	73-67-76-72=288
USA Tim Simpson	76-70-70-72=288
T42	USA Lou Graham	73-74-70-72=289	+5	1,875
USA Gary Hallberg	71-75-71-72=289
USA Barry Jaeckel	73-74-67-75=289
AUS Greg Norman	72-72-70-75=289
ZAF Gary Player (c)	74-68-73-74=289
T47	USA Gibby Gilbert	70-66-80-74=290	+6	1,730
USA Morris Hatalsky	69-75-73-73=290
USA Vance Heafner	73-74-72-71=290
USA Lon Hinkle	70-75-74-71=290
USA Larry Mize	70-70-75-75=290
USA Mike Nicolette	72-71-73-74=290
ENG Peter Oosterhuis	75-71-71-73=290
USA Tom Watson	75-67-78-70=290
T55	USA John Adams	75-71-72-73=291	+7	1,610
USA George Burns	78-68-72-73=291
USA Charles Coody	73-72-70-76=291
USA Ed Fiori	75-69-73-74=291
USA Gil Morgan	72-73-74-72=291
USA Jack Renner	74-71-73-73=291
T61	USA Scott Hoch	73-72-74-73=292	+8	1,565
CAN Jim Nelford	72-72-76-72=292
T63	USA Bruce Fleisher	74-73-74-72=293	+9	1,535
USA Bob Gilder	71-69-76-77=293
USA Mark Lye	75-67-75-76=293
USA Craig Stadler	72-73-76-72=293
T67	USA George Archer	70-77-74-73=294	+10	1,506
USA Mike Donald	71-71-76-76=294
USA Tom Kite	72-75-73-74=294
USA Arnold Palmer	74-73-74-73=294
ZWE Nick Price	72-74-74-74=294
72	TWN Chen Tze-chung	72-75-79-69=295	+11	1,500
73	USA Larry Gilbert	71-74-76-75=296	+12
T74	USA Rex Caldwell	74-73-75-75=297	+13
USA Pat Lindsey	74-72-80-71=297
76	USA Ron Streck	72-73-77-76=298	+14
T77	USA Bill Britton	74-73-77-78=300	+16
USA Bobby Heins	73-74-75-78=300
USA Jim Logue	73-74-77-76=300
T80	USA Lee Elder	76-71-77-77=301	+17
USA Ed Sneed	74-73-75-79=301
T82	USA Bob Eastwood	76-70-77-79=302	+18
USA Allen Miller	69-78-77-78=302
T84	USA Robert Hoyt	71-72-80-80=303	+19
USA Leonard Thompson	73-74-75-81=303
86	USA Curtis Strange	71-74-85-74=304	+20
87	USA Jim King	73-73-78-84=308	+24
CUT	USA Hubert Green	73-75=148	+6
USA Mark Hayes	72-76=148
USA Bob Lendzion	74-74=148
USA Mark O'Meara	72-76=148
USA Jim Albus	74-75=149	+7
USA Gene Borek	71-78=149
USA Brad Bryant	72-77=149
USA Billy Casper	74-75=149
USA Al Geiberger (c)	74-75=149
USA John Jackson	72-77=149
USA John Mahaffey (c)	77-72=149
USA Jim Masserio	76-73=149
USA Mark McCumber	79-70=149
USA Andy North	75-74=149
USA Pete Oakley	72-77=149
USA Don Padgett	73-76=149
USA Tom Purtzer	74-75=149
USA Payne Stewart	78-71=149
USA Paul Wise	77-72=149
USA Mike Wynn	73-76=149
USA Bruce Ashworth	72-78=150	+8
USA David Edwards	72-78=150
CAN Dan Halldorson	73-77=150
USA Gary Koch	72-78=150
USA Mike McCullough	72-78=150
JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima	76-74=150
USA Tim Norris	74-76=150
MEX Victor Regalado	71-79=150
USA Lanny Wadkins (c)	70-80=150
USA D. A. Weibring	73-77=150
USA Ed Whitman	76-74=150
JPN Isao Aoki	75-76=151	+9
USA Dave Barber	76-75=151
ENG Nick Faldo	74-77=151
USA Kevin Morris	75-76=151
USA Tom Robertson	74-77=151
USA Jack Seltzer	77-74=151
USA Mike Sullivan	76-75=151
USA Tim Collins	76-76=152	+10
USA Bob Elliott	78-74=152
USA John Elliott Jr.	77-75=152
USA Rick Karbowski	78-74=152
USA Vic Lipscomb	78-74=152
USA Gary McCord	72-80=152
USA Jack Sommers	75-77=152
USA Dave Stockton (c)	78-74=152
USA Rick Werner	78-74=152
USA Jim White	80-72=152
USA Steve Benson	79-74=153	+11
USA Bobby Clampett	76-77=153
USA Gene Littler	75-78=153
USA Bill Rogers	81-72=153
USA J. C. Snead	77-77=154	+12
USA John Gentile	79-76=155	+13
USA Don Maddox	79-76=155
USA Clarence Rose	75-80=155
USA Phillip Hancock	73-83=156	+14
USA Thomas Gray	78-79=157	+15
USA Robbie Gilmore	81-79=160	+18
USA Jerry Barber (c)	80-83=163	+21
USA Denis Husse	81-83=164	+22
USA Jack McConachie	82-84=166	+24
USA John Kirchner	87-83=170	+28

Source:

References

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