The 1986 PGA Championship was the 68th PGA Championship, held August 7–11 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Bob Tway won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman, the 54-hole leader.

Heavy rains on Sunday stopped play for the day in mid-afternoon. In the final group, Norman and Tway completed just one hole of their final round and resumed play on Monday afternoon.

Norman started the round with a four-shot lead and held that margin through the front nine. After a double bogey at 11 and a bogey at 14, the two were tied. They halved the next three holes at par and were tied at the 72nd tee. Tway put his approach shot in a greenside bunker, while Norman was just off the green on the fringe, 25 feet (8 m) out. Tway improbably holed out for birdie and Norman's attempt to tie missed, as did his par-saving putt. Norman led all four majors in 1986 after the third round, but won only the Open.

Entering the championship, Norman was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 1986, with Tway in second place.

This was the fifth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the U.S. Open in 1920, 1931, 1957, and 1979, and was the first in which the winning score was under-par; the previous best was even-par in 1979 by Hale Irwin. The PGA Championship returned in 1993.

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	398	385	190	466	401	211	452	528	420	3,451	363	378	162	523	448	458	409	431	354	3,531	6,982
Par	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	35	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	36	71

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Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

6,982 yards (6,384 m), par 71 - 1979 U.S. Open 6,919 yards (6,327 m), par 71 - 1957 U.S. Open 6,529 yards (5,970 m), par 71 - 1931 U.S. Open 6,569 yards (6,007 m), par 71 - 1920 U.S. Open

Thursday, August 7, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	65	−6
T2	Phil Blackmar	67	−4
	Craig Stadler
T4	Ronnie Black	68	−3
	Wayne Grady
	Peter Jacobsen
	Gary Koch
	Wayne Levi
T9	Fred Couples	69	−2
	Bob Gilder
	Jay Haas
	Mike Hulbert
	Bruce Lietzke
	Larry Mize
	Gene Sauers
	Bobby Wadkins

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Friday, August 8, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	65-68=133	−9
T2	Mike Hulbert	69-68=137	−5
	Payne Stewart	70-67=137
T3	Peter Jacobsen	68-70=138	−4
	Jack Nicklaus	70-68=138
	Jim Thorpe	71-67=138
6	Ronnie Black	68-71=139	−3
T7	Phil Blackmar	67-73=140	−2
	Bruce Lietzke	69-71=140
	Scott Simpson	70-70=140

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Saturday, August 9, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	65-68-69=202	−11
2	Bob Tway	72-70-64=206	−7
3	Peter Jacobsen	68-70-70=208	−5
T4	Donnie Hammond	70-71-68=209	−4
	Payne Stewart	70-67-72=209
T6	Bruce Lietzke	69-71-70=210	−3
	Jack Nicklaus	70-68-72=210
T8	David Frost	70-73-68=211	−2
	Mike Hulbert	69-68-74=211
	Jim Thorpe	71-67-73=211
	D. A. Weibring	71-72-68=211

Sunday, August 10, 1986
Monday, August 11, 1986

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Bob Tway	72-70-64-70=276	−8	140,000
2	Greg Norman	65-68-69-76=278	−6	80,000
3	Peter Jacobsen	68-70-70-71=279	−5	60,000
4	D. A. Weibring	71-72-68-69=280	−4	42,865
T5	Bruce Lietzke	69-71-70-71=281	−3	32,500
	Payne Stewart	70-67-72-72=281
T7	David Graham	75-69-71-67=282	−2	20,833
	Mike Hulbert	69-68-74-71=282
	Jim Thorpe	71-67-73-71=282
10	Doug Tewell	73-71-68-71=283	−1	15,000

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Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4
Tway	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8
Norman	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−10	−10	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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• YouTube – Bob Tway wins the 1986 PGA Championship

• PGA.com – 1986 PGA Championship

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