1982 Tournament Players Championship Explained

1982 Tournament Players Championship
Dates:March 18–21, 1982
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:147 players, 82 after cut[2]
Cut:148 (+4)
Purse:$500,000
Winners Share:$90,000
Champion: Jerry Pate
Score:280 (−8)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:1981
Next:1983

The 1982 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held March 18–21 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the ninth Tournament Players Championship and the first at the new course.[3] [4] [5]

Playing an orange ball,[6] Jerry Pate shot a final round 67 (−5) to win by two strokes over runners-up Scott Simpson and Brad Bryant.[7] Pate started the final round three strokes behind the leaders, in a tie for sixth place.[2] [8] Following his win, Pate pushed tour commissioner Deane Beman and course designer Pete Dye into the lake along the 18th green, and then joined them.[7] [9] [10] [11]

Notables to miss the cut included hall of famers Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and, Lee Trevino.[12]

Defending champion Raymond Floyd finished eleven strokes back, in a tie for 22nd place.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the first Tournament Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course;[3] [4] [5] its 1982 setup measured .[13] The debut was delayed a year due to heavy rains during construction.[4]

Eligibility requirements

  1. All designated players
  2. Winners of major TPA Tour co-sponsored or approved events beginning with the 1981 Tournament Players Championship and concluding with the tournament immediately preceding the 1982 TPC
  3. The current British Open champion
  4. Leaders in the TPA Tour Official Standings as necessary to complete the field, beginning with the 1981 TPC and concluding with the Bay Hill Classic, which concludes March 7, 1982

Source:[14]

Field

John Adams, Buddy Allin, Isao Aoki, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros, Jim Barber, Miller Barber, Dave Barr, Beau Baugh, Andy Bean, Chip Beck, Woody Blackburn, Jim Booros, Bill Britton, Brad Bryant, George Burns, Bob Byman, George Cadle, Rex Caldwell, Bill Calfee, Bobby Clampett, Lennie Clements, Jim Colbert, Bobby Cole, Frank Conner, Charles Coody, John Cook, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Rod Curl, Jim Dent, Bruce Devlin, Terry Diehl, Mike Donald, Ed Dougherty, Bruce Douglass, Bob Eastwood, Danny Edwards, David Edwards, Dave Eichelberger, Lee Elder, Nick Faldo, Keith Fergus, Forrest Fezler, Ed Fiori, Bruce Fleisher, Raymond Floyd, Gibby Gilbert, Bob Gilder, David Graham, Lou Graham, Thomas Gray, Hubert Green, Jay Haas, Joe Hager, Gary Hallberg, Dan Halldorson, Phil Hancock, Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Vance Heafner, Jerry Heard, Skeeter Heath, Scott Hoch, Mike Holland, Joe Inman, Hale Irwin, Peter Jacobsen, Barry Jaeckel, Don January, Tom Jenkins, Grier Jones, Tom Kite, Billy Kratzert, Wayne Levi, Don Levin, Bruce Lietzke, Pat Lindsey, Lyn Lott, Mark Lye, John Mahaffey, Roger Maltbie, Rik Massengale, Terry Mauney, John Mazza, Gary McCord, Mike McCullough, Mark McCumber, Pat McGowan, Allen Miller, Johnny Miller, Jeff Mitchell, Gil Morgan, Mike Morley, Bob Murphy, Jim Nelford, Larry Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Mike Nicolette, Lonnie Nielsen, Andy North, Mark O'Meara, Peter Oosterhuis, Arnold Palmer, Jerry Pate, Calvin Peete, Mark Pfeil, Gary Player, Dan Pohl, Don Pooley, Greg Powers, Tom Purtzer, Sammy Rachels, Victor Regalado, Mike Reid, Jack Renner, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Bill Rogers, John Schroeder, Bob Shearer, Jim Simons, Scott Simpson, Tim Simpson, J. C. Snead, Sam Snead, Ed Sneed, Craig Stadler, Dave Stockton, Curtis Strange, Ron Streck, Mike Sullivan, Doug Tewell, Barney Thompson, Leonard Thompson, David Thore, Jim Thorpe, Lee Trevino, Gary Trivisonno, Howard Twitty, Tommy Valentine, Bobby Wadkins, Lanny Wadkins, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, D. A. Weibring, Tom Weiskopf, Fuzzy Zoeller

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 18, 1982

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 67 −5
T4 68 −4
Ed Sneed
T9 69 −3
Bruce Lietzke
Source:[13]

Second round

Friday, March 19, 1982
Saturday, March 20, 1982

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 68-70=138 −6
70-68=138
67-71=138
68-70=138
72-66=138
T6 70-69=139 −5
67-72=139
68-71=139
71-68=139
T10 67-73=140 −4
69-71=140
Source:[15] [16]

Third round

Saturday, March 20, 1982

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 70-69-71=210 −6
69-72-69=210
T3 68-70-73=210 −5
68-70-73=211
5 69-73-70=212 −4
T6 70-68-75=213 −3
70-73-70=213
72-66-75=213
68-71-74=213
T10 73-72-69=214 −2
69-71-74=214
72-70-72=214
69-73-72=214
69-72-73=214
71-68-75=214
70-76-68=214
Source:[16]

Final round

Sunday, March 21, 1982

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Jerry Pate 70-73-70-67=280 −8 90,000
T2 70-69-71-72=282 −6 44,000
68-70-73-71=282
4 69-72-69-73=283 −5 24,000
5 69-72-73-70=284 −4 20,000
T6 73-72-69-72=286 −2 16,187
73-75-70-68=286
71-68-75-72=286
70-76-68-72=286
T10 73-72-71-71=287 −1 12,500
67-72-77-71=287
68-71-74-74=287
[17]

Video

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 3 share TPC lead with 67s . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . (Florida) . Associated Press . March 19, 1982 . 12B .
  2. News: Lietzke, Bryant battle back to share TPC lead . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . (Florida) . UPI . March 21, 1982 . 12B .
  3. News: Golf's richest tournament starts today . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . (Florida). UPI . March 18, 1982. 14-B.
  4. Target golf is the aim . Sports Illustrated . McDermott . Barry. March 15, 1982 . 38.
  5. News: Golf's greatest take back seat to TPC course . Spokane Chronicle . (Washington) . Associated Press . March 17, 1982 . 44.
  6. Web site: Seeing orange: The story behind Pate's Players-winning ball . PGA Tour . Vartan . Kupelian . March 21, 2012 . May 12, 2016.
  7. News: Pate takes dive after TPC win . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . March 22, 1982 . 3B .
  8. News: TPC lead surprises Lietzke, Bryant . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . wire services . March 21, 1982 . 7C .
  9. News: For Pate, a big win and another splash . St. Petersburg Times . (Florida) . Johnson . Mark . March 22, 1982 . 1C .
  10. News: Last one in is a winner . Sports Illustrated . Jenkins. Dan . Dan Jenkins . March 29, 1982 . 24 .
  11. Present at the plunge . Sports Illustrated . Van Sickle . Gary . March 23, 2004 . 32 .
  12. News: New course sends top pros packing . Chicago Tribune . March 21, 1982 . 12, sec. 4.
  13. News: Three share TPC lead with 67s . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . (Florida) . Associated Press . March 19, 1982 . 11B.
  14. Web site: 1982 PGA Tour Media Guide . live . PGA Tour . 233. https://web.archive.org/web/20200927060802/https://pgatourmedia.pgatourhq.com/static-assets/page/header/files/1982_pgatour.pdf . 2020-09-27 .
  15. News: TPA scores . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . (Florida) . Associated Press . March 20, 1982 . 11B.
  16. News: TPA scores . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . (Florida) . Associated Press . March 21, 1982 . 6B.
  17. Web site: Past Results 1974 – present . PGA Tour . March 1, 2020 . September 1, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200901175049/https://www.theplayers.com/past-results.html . dead .

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