1985 PGA Tour


The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1985 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.
DateTournamentLocationWinnerScore1st prize
Jan 13Bob Hope ClassicCalifornia Lanny Wadkins 333 90,000
Jan 20Phoenix OpenArizona Calvin Peete 270 81,000
Jan 27Los Angeles OpenCalifornia Lanny Wadkins 264 72,000
Feb 3Bing Crosby National Pro-AmCalifornia Mark O'Meara 283 90,000
Feb 10Hawaiian OpenHawaii Mark O'Meara 267 90,000
Feb 17Isuzu-Andy Williams San Diego OpenCalifornia Woody Blackburn 269 72,000
Feb 24Doral-Eastern OpenFlorida Mark McCumber 284 72,000
Mar 3Honda ClassicFlorida Curtis Strange 275 90,000
Mar 10Hertz Bay Hill ClassicFlorida Fuzzy Zoeller 275 90,000
Mar 17USF&G ClassicLouisiana Seve Ballesteros 205 72,000
Mar 24Panasonic Las Vegas InvitationalNevada Curtis Strange 338 171,000
Mar 31Tournament Players ChampionshipFlorida Calvin Peete 274 162,000
Apr 7Greater Greensboro OpenNorth Carolina Joey Sindelar 285 72,000
Apr 14Masters TournamentGeorgia Bernhard Langer 282 126,000
Apr 21Sea Pines HeritageSouth Carolina Bernhard Langer 273 72,000
Apr 28Houston OpenTexas Raymond Floyd 277 90,000
May 5MONY Tournament of ChampionsCalifornia Tom Kite 275 72,000
May 12Byron Nelson Golf ClassicTexas Bob Eastwood 272 90,000
May 19Colonial National InvitationTexas Corey Pavin 266 90,000
May 26Memorial TournamentOhio Hale Irwin 281 100,000
Jun 2Kemper OpenMaryland Bill Glasson 278 90,000
Jun 9Manufacturers Hanover Westchester ClassicNew York Roger Maltbie 275 90,000
Jun 16U.S. OpenMichigan Andy North 279 103,000
Jun 23Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Golf ClassicGeorgia Wayne Levi 273 90,000
Jun 30St. Jude Memphis ClassicTennessee Hal Sutton 279 90,000
Jul 7Canadian OpenCanada Curtis Strange 279 86,507
Jul 14Anheuser-Busch Golf ClassicVirginia Mark Wiebe 273 90,000
Jul 21Lite Quad Cities OpenIllinois Dan Forsman 267 54,000
Jul 21British OpenEngland Sandy Lyle 282 94,250
Jul 28Canon Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford OpenConnecticut Phil Blackmar 271 108,000
Aug 4Western OpenIllinois Scott Verplank 279 90,000
Aug 11PGA ChampionshipColorado Hubert Green 278 125,000
Aug 18Buick OpenMichigan Ken Green 268 81,000
Aug 25NEC World Series of GolfOhio Roger Maltbie 268 126,000
Sep 1B.C. OpenNew York Joey Sindelar 274 54,000
Sep 8Bank of Boston ClassicMassachusetts George Burns 267 72,000
Sep 15Greater Milwaukee OpenWisconsin Jim Thorpe 274 54,000
Sep 22Southwest Golf ClassicTexas Hal Sutton 273 72,000
Sep 29Texas OpenTexas John Mahaffey 268 63,000
Oct 6Southern OpenGeorgia Tim Simpson 264 63,000
Oct 13Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile ClassicFlorida Lanny Wadkins 267 72,000
Oct 20Pensacola OpenFlorida Danny Edwards 269 54,000
Oct 27Seiko-Tucson Match Play ChampionshipArizona Jim Thorpe 4&3150,000

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Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Don Pooley70.36
2John Mahaffey70.44
2Lanny Wadkins70.44
4Corey Pavin70.49
5Raymond Floyd70.53

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Curtis Strange542,321253
2Lanny Wadkins446,893243
3Calvin Peete384,489222
4Jim Thorpe379,091282
5Raymond Floyd378,989221

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Jack Nicklaus4,686,28072
2Tom Watson3,806,94036
3Lee Trevino3,177,97529
4Raymond Floyd2,868,95119
5Hale Irwin2,751,05017

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Awards