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1990 PGA Championship

Field	Value
name	1990 PGA Championship
dates	August 9–12, 1990
location	Birmingham, Alabama
map	USA#USA Alabama
map_relief	yes
map_caption	Location in the United States##Location in Alabama
coordinates
course	Shoal Creek Golf
and Country Club
org	PGA of America
tour	PGA Tour
par	72
yardage	7145 yd
field	152 players, 74 after cut
cut	151 (+7)
purse	$1.35 million
winners_share	$225,000
champion	AUS Wayne Grady
score	282 (−6)
previous	[1989](1989-pga-championship)
next	[1991](1991-pga-championship)

and Country Club](shoal-creek-club) |USA G & CC The 1990 PGA Championship was the 72nd PGA Championship, held August 9–12 at Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama. Wayne Grady won his only major championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Couples.

In the final round, Couples led by a stroke after a birdie at the 12th hole, but then had four consecutive bogeys, while Grady shot par for the rest of the round. Defending champion Payne Stewart was in the final pairing with Grady, but was two-over par on the front nine. On the par-5 11th hole, he put his third shot into the water and fell from contention with a triple bogey.

Grady became the third Australian-born player to win the PGA Championship, preceded by Jim Ferrier in 1947 and David Graham in 1979. It was Grady's second and final win on the PGA Tour.

Concerns about racial discrimination in the club's membership caused many sponsors to pull their network television advertising, including IBM. This was the final year that ABC carried the broadcast, replaced by CBS in 1991.

Controversy

Leading up to the tournament, Shoal Creek founder Hall Thompson doubled down on the club's policy of excluding African-Americans from membership. Various groups threatened to protest the event and sponsors pulled out, and the PGA considered moving the tournament away from Shoal Creek. In the end, a local African-American executive accepted an invitation to become an honorary member and the tournament was held as planned.

Venue

Main article: Shoal Creek Club

This was the second PGA Championship at Shoal Creek, which hosted six years earlier in 1984. Opened in 1977, the course was designed by Jack Nicklaus; it was the venue for the Regions Tradition, a senior major championship, from 2011 through 2015, and the U.S. Women's Open in 2018.

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	410	417	516	456	190	540	448	173	437	3,587	421	516	451	195	379	405	215	530	446	3,558	7,145
Par	4	4	5	4	3	5	4	3	4	36	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	36	72

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Previous course lengths for major championships

7145 yd – par 72, 1984 PGA Championship

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 9, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Bobby Wadkins	68	−4
T2	USA Fred Couples	69	−3
USA Mark O'Meara
T4	USA Billy Mayfair	70	−2
USA Scott Verplank
T6	USA Chip Beck	71	−1
ENG Nick Faldo
USA Robert Gamez
USA Mike Hulbert
USA Steve Pate
USA Mike Reid
USA Tim Simpson
USA Payne Stewart
USA Brian Tennyson
USA Stan Utley

Second round

Friday, August 10, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Wayne Grady	72-67=139	−5
T2	USA Fred Couples	69-71=140	−4
USA Larry Mize	72-68=140
T4	USA Chip Beck	71-70=141	−3
USA Billy Mayfair	70-71=141
T6	USA Payne Stewart	71-72=143	−1
USA Stan Utley	71-72=143
USA Bobby Wadkins	68-75=143
USA Fuzzy Zoeller	72-71=143
T10	USA Ben Crenshaw	74-70=144	E
USA John Huston	72-72=144
USA Davis Love III	72-72=144
USA Loren Roberts	73-71=144
USA Tim Simpson	71-73=144

Third round

Saturday, August 11, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Wayne Grady	72-67-72=211	−5
T2	USA Fred Couples	69-71-73=213	−3
USA Payne Stewart	71-72-70=213
T4	USA Gil Morgan	77-72-65=214	−2
USA Loren Roberts	73-71-70=214
T6	USA Billy Mayfair	70-71-75=216	E
USA Larry Mize	72-68-76=216
8	USA Steve Pate	71-75-71=217	+1
9	USA Bill Britton	72-74-72=218	+2
T10	USA Chip Beck	71-70-78=219	+3
USA Bob Boyd	74-74-71=219
ZAF David Frost	76-74-69=219
USA Hale Irwin	77-72-70=219
USA Tim Simpson	71-73-75=219
USA Brian Tennyson	71-77-71=219
USA Scott Verplank	70-76-73=219
WAL Ian Woosnam	74-75-70=219
USA Fuzzy Zoeller	72-71-76=219

Final round

Sunday, August 12, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	AUS Wayne Grady	72-67-72-71=282	−6	225,000
2	USA Fred Couples	69-71-73-72=285	−3	135,000
3	USA Gil Morgan	77-72-65-72=286	−2	90,000
4	USA Bill Britton	72-74-72-71=289	+1	73,500
T5	USA Chip Beck	71-70-78-71=290	+2	51,667
USA Billy Mayfair	70-71-75-74=290
USA Loren Roberts	73-71-70-76=290
T8	ZIM Mark McNulty	74-72-75-71=292	+4	34,375
USA Don Pooley	75-74-71-72=292
USA Tim Simpson	71-73-75-73=292
USA Payne Stewart	71-72-70-79=292

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Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	5	4	3	5	4	3	4	4	5	4		3	4	4	3	5	4
AUS Grady	−6	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
USA Couples	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−6	−5	−4	−3	−3	−3
USA Morgan	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2
USA Stewart	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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References

"Tournament Info for: 1990 PGA Championship". PGA.com.
Garrity, John. (August 20, 1990). "Grade A".
Jenkins, Sally. (August 13, 1990). "Grady staggers home in PGA with a victory". Eugene Register-Guard.
Parascenzo, Marino. (August 13, 1990). "Aussie Grady wins PGA, sheds also-ran label". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Parascenzo, Marino. (August 13, 1990). "Sponsors' exits may cost ABC $2 million". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Diaz, Jaime. (August 1, 1990). "Shoal Creek Club Agrees To Begin Admitting Blacks". The New York Times.
(August 8, 1990). "Scoreboard, Golf: PGA Hole-by-hole". Tuscaloosa News.
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