1992 PGA Championship Results
Winner: Nick Price, 278
Where it was played: Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri
Tournament dates: August 13-16, 1992
Leader after first round: Craig Stadler and Gene Sauers, 67
Leader after second round: Gene Sauers, 136
Leader after third round: Gene Sauers, 206
What Happened at the 1992 PGA Championship
Gene Sauers shared or held the lead the first three days, but it was Nick Price who won the championship on the fourth day. Price, who started Round 4 two strokes behind Sauers, shot 70 to Sauers' 75, and won by three strokes.Price held off a quartet of pursuers to win the tournament. Among the four golfers who finished tied for second place, only Nick Faldo made up ground on Price in the final round. But Faldo also started the day farther back than the other eventual runners-up.
Price started the final round with nine consecutive pars, while Sauers was giving up strokes (Sauers was among those who finished second). Then Price sank a pair of late birdies, rolling in putts for birdie on the 70th and 71st holes.
Price had contended in majors before, posting eight Top 10s (including two earlier in the year) and finishing second in the British Open twice. But this tournament was his first win in a major. It was his fourth overall win on the PGA Tour. Price finished his career with 18 total PGA Tour wins, including additional majors at the 1994 British Open and 1994 PGA Championship.
The previous year, in the 1991 PGA Championship, Price withdrew at the last minute and that allowed John Daly to get into the field. Daly went on to win that 1991 PGA. But as the defending champion this year, Daly finished near the bottom among those who made the cut.
Two-time PGA Championship winner Vijay Singh played the tournament for the first time this year, finishing tied for 48th. Future four-time major winner Ernie Els also played his first PGA Championship here, missing the cut.
1992 PGA Championship Final Scores
| Nick Price | 70-70-68-70—278 |
| John Cook | 71-72-67-71—281 |
| Nick Faldo | 68-70-76-67—281 |
| Jim Gallagher Jr. | 72-66-72-71—281 |
| Gene Sauers | 67-69-70-75—281 |
| Jeff Maggert | 71-72-65-74—282 |
| Russ Cochran | 69-69-76-69—283 |
| Dan Forsman | 70-73-70-70—283 |
| Brian Claar | 68-73-73-70—284 |
| Anders Forsbrand | 73-71-70-70—284 |
| Duffy Waldorf | 74-73-68-69—284 |
| Billy Andrade | 72-71-70-72—285 |
| Corey Pavin | 71-73-70-71—285 |
| Jeff Sluman | 73-71-72-69—285 |
| Mark Brooks | 71-72-68-75—286 |
| Brad Faxon | 72-69-75-70—286 |
| Greg Norman | 71-74-71-70—286 |
| Steve Elkington | 74-70-71-72—287 |
| Rick Fehr | 74-73-71-69—287 |
| John Huston | 73-75-71-68—287 |
| Bill Britton | 70-77-70-71—288 |
| Fred Couples | 69-73-73-73—288 |
| Lee Janzen | 74-71-72-71—288 |
| Tom Kite | 73-73-69-73—288 |
| Gil Morgan | 71-69-73-75—288 |
| Tommy Nakajima | 71-75-69-73—288 |
| Tom Purtzer | 72-72-74-70—288 |
| Mike Hulbert | 74-74-70-71—289 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 73-71-72-73—289 |
| Larry Nelson | 72-68-75-74—289 |
| Joe Ozaki | 76-72-74-67—289 |
| Tom Wargo | 72-72-73-72—289 |
| Paul Azinger | 72-73-68-77—290 |
| Brad Fabel | 72-76-74-68—290 |
| Bruce Fleisher | 70-72-75-73—290 |
| Davis Love III | 77-71-70-72—290 |
| Colin Montgomerie | 72-76-69-73—290 |
| Frank Nobilo | 69-74-74-73—290 |
| Dillard Pruitt | 73-70-73-74—290 |
| Fulton Allem | 74-72-72-73—291 |
| Billy Ray Brown | 72-75-72-72—291 |
| David Edwards | 74-70-77-70—291 |
| Mark James | 75-72-72-72—291 |
| Bernhard Langer | 72-74-72-73—291 |
| Rocco Mediate | 72-68-74-77—291 |
| Larry Mize | 74-74-71-72—291 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 72-71-73-75—291 |
| Brad Bryant | 75-71-73-73—292 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 74-69-74-75—292 |
| Raymond Floyd | 69-75-69-79—292 |
| Steve Pate | 70-78-70-74—292 |
| Steven Richardson | 73-66-75-78—292 |
| Peter Senior | 71-76-73-72—292 |
| Vijay Singh | 70-73-73-76—292 |
| Craig Stadler | 67-72-75-78—292 |
| Keith Clearwater | 73-72-74-74—293 |
| Gary Hallberg | 71-72-72-78—293 |
| Andrew Magee | 74-71-74-74—293 |
| Lee Rinker | 72-75-73-73—293 |
| Joey Sindelar | 72-75-75-71—293 |
| Bob Tway | 74-73-72-74—293 |
| Jay Haas | 75-73-74-72—294 |
| Blaine McCallister | 73-75-76-70—294 |
| Jay Overton | 73-73-76-72—294 |
| Tom Watson | 72-71-73-78—294 |
| Hale Irwin | 71-77-72-75—295 |
| James Kane | 72-73-76-74—295 |
| Roger Mackay | 76-72-71-76—295 |
| Ian Baker-Finch | 71-75-78-72—296 |
| David Peoples | 75-73-74-74—296 |
| Ted Schulz | 75-71-74-76—296 |
| Payne Stewart | 76-69-79-72—296 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 75-71-78-74—298 |
| David Frost | 72-76-77-73—298 |
| Bruce Lietzke | 75-70-80-73—298 |
| Jay Don Blake | 68-77-79-76—300 |
| Bob Estes | 69-78-77-76—300 |
| Steve Veriato | 70-73-77-80—300 |
| Robert Gamez | 69-75-82-77—303 |
| Scott Gump | 71-72-78-82—303 |
| Todd Smith | 75-73-79-76—303 |
| John Daly | 76-72-79-77—304 |
| Harold Perry | 74-74-78-79—305 |
| Neal Lancaster | 75-72-79-81—307 |
| Ken McDonald | 78-69-78-82—307 |
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