Vijay Singh won the first of his three major championships, two strokes ahead of runner-up Steve Stricker.

[2][3][4] This was only the tenth time the championship was played in the western half of the United States; the next was 22 years later at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.

The previous two were match play events, held in Spokane in 1944 and Portland in 1946.

Sahalee was scheduled to host again in 2010, but the PGA of America reversed its decision in early 2005 and moved it to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

Steve Elkington, the 1995 champion, carded a 67 to finish in solo third, a stroke behind Stricker.