Bob Tway won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman, the 54-hole leader.

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[5] and Norman's attempt to tie missed, as did his par-saving putt.

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

[7] 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.