1986 Tournament Players Championship

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The 1986 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 27–30 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the thirteenth Tournament Players Championship.

John Mahaffey shot 71 in the final round for 275 (−13) and the win, one stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize, the 54-hole leader.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Calvin Peete missed the 36-hole cut by two strokes, the first time a participating defending champion did not play the weekend.

Venue

This was the fifth Tournament Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 6,857 yards (6,270 m).^[1]

Eligibility requirements

1. Top 125 players, if PGA Tour members, from final 1985 Official Money List:

Curtis Strange, Lanny Wadkins, Calvin Peete, Jim Thorpe, Raymond Floyd, Corey Pavin, Hal Sutton, Roger Maltbie, John Mahaffey, Mark O'Meara, Craig Stadler, Joey Sindelar, Bernhard Langer, Tom Kite, Fuzzy Zoeller, Hubert Green, Larry Mize, Tom Watson, Payne Stewart, Mac O'Grady, George Burns, Wayne Levi, Peter Jacobsen, Andy North, Danny Edwards, Dan Pohl, Phil Blackmar, Bill Glasson, Larry Rinker, Hale Irwin, Mark McCumber, Andy Bean, Jodie Mudd, Scott Hoch, Mark Wiebe, Billy Kratzert, Fred Couples, Scott Simpson, Mike Reid, Wayne Grady, Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus, Tim Simpson, Bob Tway, Don Pooley, Willie Wood, D. A. Weibring, Bob Eastwood, Ken Green, Dan Forsman, Larry Nelson, Ron Streck, Lee Trevino, Woody Blackburn, Doug Tewell, Bruce Lietzke, Keith Fergus, Brett Upper, Gil Morgan, Clarence Rose, Johnny Miller, Dave Barr, Tony Sills, Buddy Gardner, Gary Koch, Jay Haas, David Frost, Ed Fiori, Mark Lye, Dan Halldorson, George Archer, Gary Hallberg, Lon Hinkle, Donnie Hammond, Jeff Sluman, Bob Murphy, Nick Price, Bob Lohr, Howard Twitty, Loren Roberts, Isao Aoki, Mike Donald, Steve Pate, Russ Cochran, Jim Colbert, Pat McGowan, Bobby Wadkins, Tim Norris, Barry Jaeckel, Paul Azinger, Bobby Clampett, David Ogrin, Morris Hatalsky, Chip Beck, TC Chen, Andrew Magee, Brad Fabel, David Graham, Richard Zokol, Frank Conner, J. C. Snead, Jim Simons, John Cook, Joe Inman, Mark Hayes, Ronnie Black, Chris Perry, Kikuo Arai, Ken Brown, Rex Caldwell, Bill Sander, Mark Pfeil, Nick Faldo, Pat Lindsey, Tom Purtzer, Lennie Clements, Gene Sauers, Leonard Thompson, Bob Gilder, Brad Faxon, Jay Delsing

Jim Nelford, Jack Renner, Mike Smith, and Denis Watson elected not to play

Source:^[5]

2. Designated players

Ben Crenshaw, Scott Verplank

3. Any foreign player meeting the requirements of a designated player whether or not he is a PGA Tour member

Sandy Lyle

4. Winners in the last 10 calendar years of the Tournament Players Championship, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, Masters Tournament and World Series of Golf

Dave Stockton

5. The leader in Senior PGA Tour official earnings of 1985

Peter Thomson elected not to play

Source:^[6]

6. The three players, not otherwise eligible, designated by the TPC Committee as "special selections"

Dick Mast, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Arnold Palmer

7. To complete a field of 144 players. those players in order, not otherwise eligible, from the 1986 Official Money List as of the completion of the Hertz Bay Hill Classic on March 16, 1986

Kenny Knox, Jim Gallagher Jr., Mike Hulbert, Antonio Cerda Jr., Andy Dillard, Mike Sullivan, Bill Israelson, David Edwards, Dave Rummells, John Adams, Dennis Trixler, Davis Love III, Tom Sieckmann, Greg Ladehoff, Charlie Bolling, Bill Rogers

Source:^[7]

General Source:^[8]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 27, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Keith Fergus	66	−6
	Ken Green
	Larry Mize
	Tony Sills
	Bob Tway
T6	David Edwards	67	−5
	Raymond Floyd
	Lanny Wadkins
	Willie Wood
T10	Danny Edwards	68	−4
	Mark O'Meara
	J. C. Snead
	Doug Tewell
	Lee Trevino
	Mark Wiebe

Source:^[9]

Second round

Friday, March 28, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Larry Mize	66-68=134	−10
T1	Bob Murphy	69-65=134	−10
3	Dave Rummells	70-65=135	−9
T4	David Edwards	67-69=208	−8
	Doug Tewell	68-68=136
	Brett Upper	71-65=136
T7	Mike Hulbert	69-68=137	−7
T7	Jim Thorpe	69-68=137	−7
T9	Tom Kite	69-69=138	−6
	Nick Price	71-67=138
	Payne Stewart	71-67=138

Source:^[10]

Third round

Saturday, March 29, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Larry Mize	66-68-66=200	−16
2	John Mahaffey	69-70-65=204	−12
T3	Bob Murphy	69-65-74=208	−8
T3	Tim Simpson	72-70-66=208	−8
T5	Tom Kite	69-69-71=209	−7
T5	Brett Upper	71-65-73=209	−7
T7	Dick Mast	69-73-68=210	−6
T7	Doug Tewell	68-68-74=210	−6
T9	Tony Sills	71-73-70=211	−5
	Jim Simons	69-72-70=211
	Hal Sutton	71-72-68=211
	Jim Thorpe	69-68-74=211
	Lee Trevino	68-73-70=211
	Bob Tway	66-73-72=211

Source:^[11]^[12]

Final round

Sunday, March 30, 1986

Champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	John Mahaffey	69-70-65-71=275	−13	162,000
2	Larry Mize	66-68-66-76=276	−12	97,200
3	Tim Simpson	72-70-66-72=280	−8	61,200
T4	Tom Kite	69-69-71-72=281	−7	37,200
	Jim Thorpe	69-68-74-70=281
	Brett Upper	71-65-73-72=281
T7	John Cook	71-73-70-68=282	−6	28,050
	Jay Haas	73-68-73-68=282
	Hal Sutton (c)	71-72-68-71=282
T10	Dave Rummells	70-65-79-69=283	−5	21,600
	Payne Stewart	71-67-75-70=283
	Doug Tewell	68-68-74-73=283
	Bob Tway	66-73-72-72=283

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T14	Scott Hoch	69-74-71-70=284	−4	16,200
	Davis Love III	71-71-75-67=284
	Bob Murphy	69-65-74-76=284
T17	Ronnie Black	70-71-74-70=285	−3	13,950
T17	Joey Sindelar	70-70-73-72=285	−3	13,950
T19	David Edwards	67-69-76-74=286	−2	12,150
T19	Jim Simons	69-72-70-75=286	−2	12,150
T21	Andy Bean	70-73-72-72=287	−1	7,627
	Charlie Bolling	73-70-73-71=287
	Jim Colbert	73-70-73-71=287
	Danny Edwards	68-72-74-73=287
	Keith Fergus	66-73-73-75=287
	Raymond Floyd (c)	67-73-75-72=287
	Kenny Knox	71-73-69-74=287
	Gary Koch	72-70-72-73=287
	Dick Mast	69-73-68-77=287
	Larry Rinker	72-70-75-70=287
	Tom Sieckmann	70-69-77-71=287
	Lee Trevino (c)	68-73-70-76=287
T33	Ken Green	66-75-76-71=288	E	4,654
	Morris Hatalsky	74-70-69-75=288
	Peter Jacobsen	72-69-72-75=288
	Greg Norman	70-71-77-70=288
	Mark O'Meara	68-74-74-72=288
	Tony Sills	66-75-70-77=288
	D. A. Weibring	70-71-74-73=288
T40	Mike Donald	73-71-72-73=289	+1	3,240
	Bernhard Langer	70-73-73-73=289
	Bruce Lietzke	70-71-75-73=289
	David Ogrin	70-74-71-74=289
	Loren Roberts	70-73-73-73=289
	Jeff Sluman	70-74-75-70=289
	Mike Sullivan	72-68-75-74=289
	Lanny Wadkins (c)	67-73-76-73=289
T48	David Frost	70-69-75-76=290	+2	2,262
	Wayne Levi	73-71-76-70=290
	Roger Maltbie	70-73-79-68=290
	Mark Pfeil	69-74-70-77=290
	Tom Purtzer	72-70-77-71=290
	Dave Stockton	72-72-76-70=290
T54	Ben Crenshaw	73-71-73-74=291	+3	2,061
	Tim Norris	74-68-74-75=291
	Chris Perry	69-72-72-78=291
	Mark Wiebe	68-72-78-73=291
T58	Frank Conner	70-73-77-72=292	+4	1,971
	Mike Hulbert	69-68-78-77=292
	Gil Morgan	70-73-73-76=292
	Corey Pavin	70-72-72-78=292
	Nick Price	71-67-75-79=292
	Tom Watson	70-74-74-74=292
T64	Paul Azinger	70-71-77-75=293	+5	1,890
	Dave Barr	69-72-73-79=293
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	69-75-78-71=293
T67	Ken Brown	72-71-76-75=294	+6	1,818
	Chen Tze-chung	71-69-82-72=294
	Barry Jaeckel	70-73-76-75=294
	J. C. Snead	68-73-74-79=294
	Dennis Trixler	71-73-74-76=294
T72	Greg Ladehoff	73-69-78-76=296	+8	1,755
T72	Steve Pate	71-72-78-75=296	+8	1,755
74	Willie Wood	67-73-77-80=297	+9	1,728
75	George Burns	71-73-75-80=299	+11	1,710
CUT	George Archer	71-74=145	+1
	Lennie Clements	72-73=145
	Brad Faxon	72-73=145
	Dan Forsman	75-70=145
	Buddy Gardner	73-72=145
	Bob Gilder	71-74=145
	Bill Glasson	75-70=145
	Hubert Green	72-73=145
	Mark Lye	73-72=145
	Sandy Lyle	74-71=145
	Johnny Miller	70-75=145
	Jodie Mudd	72-73=145
	Scott Simpson	74-71=145
	Leonard Thompson	70-75=145
	Chip Beck	77-69=146	+2
	Jay Delsing	73-73=146
	Bob Eastwood	72-74=146
	Brad Fabel	71-75=146
	Jim Gallagher Jr.	74-72=146
	Dan Halldorson	70-76=146
	Bill Israelson	74-72=146
	Calvin Peete (c)	73-73=146
	Mike Reid	71-75=146
	Bill Rogers	71-75=146
	Bill Sander	74-72=146
	Gene Sauers	73-73=146
	Curtis Strange	74-72=146
	Ron Streck	73-73=146
	Rex Caldwell	77-70=147	+3
	Russ Cochran	73-74=147
	Andy Dillard	71-76=147
	Nick Faldo	69-78=147
	Ed Fiori	74-73=147
	Hale Irwin	75-72=147
	Billy Kratzert	77-70=147
	Pat Lindsey	72-75=147
	Pat McGowan	74-73=147
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	74-73=147
	Craig Stadler	75-72=147
	Howard Twitty	71-76=147
	Bobby Wadkins	71-76=147
	Woody Blackburn	70-78=148	+4
	Bob Lohr	74-74=148
	Andrew Magee	72-76=148
	Mark McCumber	75-73=148
	Fuzzy Zoeller	72-76=148
	Mark Hayes (c)	72-77=149	+5
	Joe Inman	73-76=149
	Larry Nelson	72-77=149
	Scott Verplank	72-77=149
	Kikuo Arai	71-79=150	+6
	Antonio Cerda Jr.	75-75=150
	Bobby Clampett	74-76=150
	David Graham	75-75=150
	Gary Hallberg	74-76=150
	Andy North	72-78=150
	Dan Pohl	74-76=150
	Don Pooley	71-79=150
	Mac O'Grady	72-79=151	+7
	Richard Zokol	76-75=151	+7
	John Adams	75-77=152	+8
	Isao Aoki	74-78=152
	Arnold Palmer	75-77=152
	Wayne Grady	82-71=153	+9
Lon Hinkle	74-80=154	+10
Phil Blackmar	79-76=155	+11
Clarence Rose	80-76=156	+12
Fred Couples (c)	77-80=157	+13
WD	Donnie Hammond	82	+10

Source:^[13]

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