1983 PGA Tour
The 1983 PGA Tour season was played from January 6 to October 30. The season consisted of 43 official money golf tournaments. Seve Ballesteros, Jim Colbert, Mark McCumber, Gil Morgan, Calvin Peete, Hal Sutton, Lanny Wadkins, and Fuzzy Zoeller won the most tournaments, two, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.
This was also the first season of the "All-Exempt Tour" which provided many more exemptions per year. For example, those that finished in the top 125 of the money list maintained full-time status rather than the top 60 which had been historic benchmark.[1]
Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1983 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.
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Leaders
Scoring Average leaders
Rank | Player | Country | Average |
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1 | Raymond Floyd | ![]() | 70.61 |
2 | Calvin Peete | ![]() | 70.62 |
3 | Don Pooley | ![]() | 70.80 |
4 | Hale Irwin | ![]() | 70.82 |
5 | Jack Nicklaus | ![]() | 70.88 |
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Money List leaders
Rank | Player | Country | Earnings ($) | Events | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hal Sutton | ![]() | 426,668 | 30 | 2 |
2 | Fuzzy Zoeller | ![]() | 417,597 | 28 | 2 |
3 | Lanny Wadkins | ![]() | 319,271 | 25 | 2 |
4 | Calvin Peete | ![]() | 313,845 | 24 | 2 |
5 | Gil Morgan | ![]() | 306,133 | 25 | 2 |
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Career Money List leaders
Rank | Player | Country | Earnings ($) | Wins |
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1 | Jack Nicklaus | ![]() | 4,248,229 | 71 |
2 | Tom Watson | ![]() | 3,103,902 | 33 |
3 | Lee Trevino | ![]() | 2,754,184 | 28 |
4 | Raymond Floyd | ![]() | 2,387,149 | 18 |
5 | Hale Irwin | ![]() | 2,372,659 | 15 |
Source:[5]
Awards
References
- Radosta, John (January 3, 1983). "PGA Tour Preview 1983; Under a New Format, Scramble Resumes for Money". The New York Times. p. C-11. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- "1983 Schedule". PGA Tour.
- "Scoring Average – 1983". PGA Tour.
- "Money Leaders – 1983". PGA Tour.
- "Career Money Leaders – 1983". PGA Tour.