1978 Tournament Players Championship
Tournament information | |
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Dates | March 16–19, 1978 |
Location | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 30°11′20″N 81°22′12″W / 30.189°N 81.370°W |
Course(s) | Sawgrass Country Club, East-West course |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,174 yards (6,560 m)[1][2] |
Field | 142 players, 79 after cut |
Cut | 153 (+9) |
Prize fund | $344,270 |
Winner's share | $60,000 |
Champion | |
Jack Nicklaus | |
289 (+1) | |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in Florida | |
The 1978 Tournament Players Championship was a
This was the fourth consecutive start for Nicklaus in 1978 that ended with a top-two finish: two wins and two second places.[1][4] Four months later in July, he won his third Open Championship to become the first to win the TPC and a major title in the same calendar year, later joined by Hal Sutton (1983, PGA), Tiger Woods (2001, Masters), and Martin Kaymer (2014, U.S. Open).
Defending champion Mark Hayes finished eleven strokes back, in a tie for 28th place.
Venue
This was the second of five Tournament Players Championships held at Sawgrass Country Club; it moved to the nearby TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course in 1982.
Eligibility requirements
- All designated players
- Winners of major PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved events beginning with the 1977 Tournament Players Championship and concluding with the tournament immediately preceding the 1978 TPC
- The current British Open champion
- Leaders In PGA Tour Official Standings as necessary to complete the field, beginning with the Florida Citrus Open
Source:[5]
Field
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, March 16, 1978
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 | Ben Crenshaw | 70 | −2 |
Gibby Gilbert | |||
Gary Groh | |||
Jack Nicklaus | |||
Victor Regalado | |||
John Schroeder | |||
Bobby Wadkins | |||
T8 | Lou Graham | 71 | −1 |
Joe Inman | |||
Artie McNickle | |||
Larry Nelson |
Source:[6]
Second round
Friday, March 17, 1978
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 | Ben Crenshaw | 70-71=141 | −3 |
Lou Graham | 71-70=141 | ||
Jack Nicklaus | 70-71=141 | ||
4 | Larry Nelson | 71-72=143 | −1 |
5 | John Mahaffey | 72-72=144 | E |
T6 | Mike Morley | 72-73=145 | +1 |
Andy North | 74-71=145 | ||
John Schroeder | 70-75=145 | ||
T9 | Sam Adams | 74-72=146 | +2 |
David Graham | 72-74=146 | ||
Joe Inman | 71-75=146 | ||
Artie McNickle | 71-75=146 | ||
Mac McLendon | 72-74=146 | ||
Florentino Molina | 72-74=146 | ||
Peter Oosterhuis | 73-73=146 |
Source:[7]
Third round
Saturday, March 18, 1978
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | Jack Nicklaus | 70-71-73=214 | −2 |
2 | Lou Graham | 71-70-74=215 | −1 |
T3 | Ben Crenshaw | 70-71-77=218 | +2 |
Larry Nelson | 71-72-75=218 | ||
T5 | John Mahaffey | 72-72-75=219 | +3 |
Andy North | 74-71-74=219 | ||
T7 | Lon Hinkle | 75-72-74=221 | +5 |
Mike McCullough | 77-75-69=221 | ||
Peter Oosterhuis | 73-73-75=221 | ||
John Schroeder | 70-75-76=221 | ||
Bob Shearer | 74-75-72=221 | ||
Bob Zender | 75-73-73=221 |
Source:[8]
Final round
Sunday, March 19, 1978
Champion |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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1 | Jack Nicklaus (c) | 70-71-73-75=289 | +1 | 60,000 |
2 | Lou Graham | 71-70-74-75=290 | +2 | 34,200 |
3 | Lon Hinkle | 75-72-74-70=291 | +3 | 21,300 |
T4 | Ben Crenshaw | 70-71-77-74=292 | +4 | 11,700 |
Larry Nelson | 71-72-75-74=292 | |||
Andy North | 74-71-74-73=292 | |||
John Schroeder | 70-75-76-71=292 | |||
8 | Jim Colbert | 74-74-74-72=294 | +6 | 8,850 |
T9 | Hubert Green | 76-77-71-71=295 | +7 | 7,500 |
Peter Oosterhuis | 73-73-75-74=295 | |||
Victor Regalado | 70-79-76-70=295 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T12 | Jerry Heard | 73-78-71-74=296 | +8 | 5,460 | |
John Mahaffey | 72-72-75-77=296 | ||||
Mike McCullough | 77-75-69-75=296 | ||||
Florentino Molina | 72-74-76-74=296 | ||||
Bobby Wadkins | 70-79-73-74=296 | ||||
T17 | Lee Elder | 75-76-75-71=297 | +9 | 4,200 | |
Phil Hancock | 73-74-75-75=297 | ||||
Jerry Pate | 76-76-75-70=297 | ||||
T20 | Danny Edwards | 75-73-75-75=298 | +10 | 2,892 | |
David Graham | 72-74-78-74=298 | ||||
Graham Marsh | 73-76-73-76=298 | ||||
Mac McLendon | 72-74-76-76=298 | ||||
Gil Morgan | 73-77-76-72=298 | ||||
John Schlee | 77-73-75-73=298 | ||||
Bob Shearer | 74-75-72-77=298 | ||||
27 | Rod Funseth | 74-73-78-74=299 | +11 | 2,310 | |
T28 | Andy Bean | 73-78-76-73=300 | +12 | 1,791 | |
Keith Fergus | 73-75-82-70=300 | ||||
Gibby Gilbert | 70-77-79-74=300 | ||||
Mark Hayes (c) | 73-77-77-73=300 | ||||
Joe Inman | 71-75-79-75=300 | ||||
Tom Kite | 74-77-78-71=300 | ||||
Lyn Lott | 75-76-78-71=300 | ||||
Gary Player | 74-73-77-76=300 | ||||
Alan Tapie | 73-75-82-70=300 | ||||
Kermit Zarley | 75-77-73-75=300 | ||||
Bob Zender | 75-73-73-79=300 | ||||
T39 | Sam Adams | 74-72-77-78=301 | +13 | 1,290 | |
Fred Marti | 72-79-77-73=301 | ||||
Leonard Thompson | 74-76-79-72=301 | ||||
T42 | Frank Conner | 75-74-75-78=302 | +14 | 1,082 | |
Morris Hatalsky | 74-79-74-75=302 | ||||
Hale Irwin | 75-75-75-77=302 | ||||
Billy Kratzert | 75-76-75-76=302 | ||||
T46 | Miller Barber | 78-74-76-75=303 | +15 | 975 | |
Bobby Cole | 72-79-81-71=303 | ||||
Charles Coody | 73-76-74-80=303 | ||||
Don January | 73-74-79-77=303 | ||||
T50 | Mike Morley | 72-73-79-80=304 | +16 | 945 | |
Mark Pfeil | 74-75-78-77=304 | ||||
T52 | Bob Eastwood | 79-72-82-72=305 | +17 | 910 | |
Peter Jacobsen | 74-76-80-75=305 | ||||
Artie McNickle | 71-75-82-77=305 | ||||
Bill Rogers | 73-75-79-78=305 | ||||
Jim Simons | 73-80-79-73=305 | ||||
T57 | Jay Haas | 76-76-76-78=306 | +18 | 860 | |
Steve Melnyk | 76-75-79-76=306 | ||||
Mike Reid | 76-77-75-78=306 | ||||
Ron Streck | 75-78-77-76=306 | ||||
Tom Weiskopf | 73-80-74-79=306 | ||||
62 | Chi Chi Rodriguez |
73-77-80-77=307 | +19 | 830 | |
T63 | Wayne Levi | 74-75-82-77=308 | +20 | 810 | |
Allen Miller | 74-73-79-82=308 | ||||
Art Wall Jr. | 73-79-77-79=308 | ||||
T66 | Don Bies | 76-77-81-75=309 | +21 | 770 | |
Rex Caldwell | 75-76-80-78=309 | ||||
Gary Groh | 70-77-79-83=309 | ||||
Gary McCord | 77-75-77-80=309 | ||||
Jerry McGee | 76-76-75-82=309 | ||||
T71 | Tom Shaw | 76-75-83-76=310 | +22 | 750 | |
J. C. Snead | 74-77-82-77=310 | ||||
T73 | Rod Curl | 75-78-82-76=311 | +23 | 750 | |
John Lister | 76-76-81-78=311 | ||||
T75 | Homero Blancas | 74-77-84-77=312 | +24 | 750 | |
Howard Twitty | 78-75-81-78=312 | ||||
T77 | Forrest Fezler | 76-75-82-80=313 | +25 | 750 | |
Arnold Palmer | 74-78-76-85=313 | ||||
CUT | George Burns | 79-75=154 | +10 | ||
Dave Eichelberger | 78-76=154 | ||||
Raymond Floyd | 77-77=154 | ||||
Mike Hill | 76-78=154 | ||||
Rik Massengale | 73-81=154 | ||||
Dwight Nevil | 78-76=154 | ||||
Sammy Rachels | 77-77=154 | ||||
Steve Taylor | 76-78=154 | ||||
Tom Watson | 76-78=154 | ||||
Bill Calfee | 79-76=155 | +11 | |||
Billy Casper | 77-78=155 | ||||
Jim Dent | 74-81=155 | ||||
Terry Diehl | 78-77=155 | ||||
Tom Jenkins | 77-78=155 | ||||
Bruce Lietzke | 77-78=155 | ||||
Jeff Mitchell | 74-81=155 | ||||
Joe Porter | 76-79=155 | ||||
Tom Purtzer | 75-80=155 | ||||
Jack Renner | 75-80=155 | ||||
Dan Sikes | 74-81=155 | ||||
Ed Sneed | 76-79=155 | ||||
Wally Armstrong | 77-79=156 | +12 | |||
Butch Baird | 78-78=156 | ||||
Don Iverson | 81-75=156 | ||||
Grier Jones | 79-77=156 | ||||
Orville Moody | 74-82=156 | ||||
Bob Payne | 75-81=156 | ||||
Dave Stockton | 79-77=156 | ||||
Curtis Strange | 83-73=156 | ||||
Doug Tewell | 79-77=156 | ||||
Bobby Walzel | 78-78=156 | ||||
Bruce Devlin | 76-81=157 | +13 | |||
Barry Jaeckel | 76-81=157 | ||||
Gary Koch | 77-80=157 | ||||
Stan Lee | 80-77=157 | ||||
Mark Lye | 78-79=157 | ||||
Roger Maltbie | 79-78=157 | ||||
Eddie Pearce | 80-77=157 | ||||
Don Pooley | 74-83=157 | ||||
Bob E. Smith | 74-83=157 | ||||
Bobby Nichols | 77-81=158 | +14 | |||
Barney Thompson | 76-82=158 | ||||
Larry Ziegler | 79-79=158 | ||||
Tommy Aaron | 83-76=159 | +15 | |||
Bob Gilder | 74-85=159 | ||||
George Knudson | 80-79=159 | ||||
Johnny Miller | 77-82=159 | ||||
Frank Beard | 80-80=160 | +16 | |||
Antonio Cerda Jr. | 82-78=160 | ||||
Randy Erskine | 75-85=160 | ||||
Dale Hayes | 77-83=160 | ||||
Bob Murphy | 78-82=160 | ||||
Ken Still | 80-80=160 | ||||
Fuzzy Zoeller | 77-83=160 | ||||
Lanny Wadkins | 79-82=161 | +17 | |||
Calvin Peete | 81-81=162 | +18 | |||
Tim Simpson | 81-81=162 | ||||
Bob Wynn | 76-86=162 | ||||
Ed Dougherty | 78-85=163 | +19 | |||
Craig Stadler | 79-85=164 | +20 | |||
Bill Mallon | 84-85=169 | +25 | |||
George Cadle | 81-89=170 | +26 | |||
WD | Lee Trevino | 75-78=153 | +9 | ||
Gene Littler |
Source:[9]
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- ^ a b "Nicklaus tops TPC with 75". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 20, 1978. p. 16.
- ^ a b "Nicklaus holds on for 2d win of year". Chicago Tribune. wire services. March 20, 1978. p. 6, sec. 6.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Dan (March 27, 1978). "Off in a world of his own". Sports Illustrated. p. 20.
- ^ "1978 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 207. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 27, 2020.
- ^ "Nicklaus making his big bid". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). UPI. March 17, 1978. p. 7C.
- ^ "Birdies bring back Nicklaus into a TPC tie". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). wire services. March 18, 1978. p. 6B.
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