2018 PGA Championship

The 2018 PGA Championship was the 100th PGA Championship, held August 9–12 at Bellerive Country Club in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb west of St. Louis. This was the second PGA Championship (1992) and third major (1965 U.S. Open) held at Bellerive. It was also scheduled to be the last held in the month of August (although the 2020 tournament would later be moved to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Just before the 2017 tournament, the PGA announced that the Championship would move to May in 2019.^[1][2]

2018 PGA Championship

Tournament information
Dates	August 9–12, 2018
Location	Town and Country, Missouri 38.66°N 90.483°W / 38.66; -90.483
Course(s)	Bellerive Country Club
Organized by	PGA of America
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,316 yards (6,690 m)
Field	156 players, 80 after cut
Cut	140 (E)
Prize fund	$11,000,000 €9,500,693
Winner's share	$1,980,000 €1,710,125
Champion
Brooks Koepka
264 (−16)
Location map
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Brooks Koepka won his third career major title, finishing two strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods.^[3] Koepka's 72-hole total of 264 set a PGA Championship record.^[4]

Media

The 2018 PGA Championship was the 35th overall and 28th straight PGA Championship to be televised by CBS, with first and second round coverage provided by Turner Sports for the 28th year. In the UK and Ireland, the Championship was being streamed online by Eleven Sports.^[5][6][7]

Course layout

Main article: Bellerive Country Club

Hole	Yards	Par		Hole	Yards	Par
1	425	4		10	508	4
2	410	4		11	355	4
3	148	3		12	452	4
4	521	4		13	180	3
5	471	4		14	410	4
6	213	3		15	495	4
7	394	4		16	237	3
8	610	5		17	597	5
9	433	4		18	457	4
Out	3,625	35		In	3,691	35
Source:[8]		Total			7,316	70

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

• 7,148 yards (6,536 m), par 71 - 1992 PGA Championship
• 7,191 yards (6,575 m), par 70 - 1965 U.S. Open

Field

The following qualification criteria were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.^[9][10]

1. All former winners of the PGA Championship

• Rich Beem
• Keegan Bradley (9)
• John Daly
• Jason Day (5,7,9,11)
• Jason Dufner (9)
• Pádraig Harrington
• Martin Kaymer (3,10)
• Davis Love III
• Rory McIlroy (4,9,10,11)
• Shaun Micheel
• Phil Mickelson (9,10,11)
• Vijay Singh
• Justin Thomas (7,9,11)
• Jimmy Walker (9,10)
• Tiger Woods (9)
• Yang Yong-eun

• The following former champions did not enter: Paul Azinger, Mark Brooks, Jack Burke Jr., Steve Elkington, Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, David Toms, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins

2. Winners of the last five Masters Tournaments

• Sergio García (10)
• Patrick Reed (7,9,10,11)
• Jordan Spieth (3,4,9,10)
• Bubba Watson (9,11)
• Danny Willett (10)

3. Winners of the last five U.S. Open Championships

• Dustin Johnson (7,9,10,11)
• Brooks Koepka (7,9,10,11)

4. Winners of the last five Open Championships

• Zach Johnson (9,10)
• Francesco Molinari (7,9,11)
• Henrik Stenson (7,9,10,11)

5. Winners of the last three Players Championships

• Kim Si-woo (9)
• Webb Simpson (9,11)

6. Current Senior PGA Champion

• Paul Broadhurst

7. Top 15 and ties from the 2017 PGA Championship

• Scott Brown
• Paul Casey (9,11)
• Rickie Fowler (9,10)
• James Hahn
• Brian Harman (9)
• Kevin Kisner (9)
• Matt Kuchar (9,10)
• Marc Leishman (9,11)
• Hideki Matsuyama (9)
• Ryan Moore (9,10)
• Jordan Smith
• Chris Stroud

• Graham DeLaet^[11] and Louis Oosthuizen (9)^[12] did not play due to injury.

8. Top 20 in the 2018 PGA Professional Championship

• Danny Balin
• Rich Berberian Jr.
• Michael Block
• Matt Borchert
• Craig Bowden
• Matt Dobyns
• Jaysen Hansen
• Craig Hocknull
• Marty Jertson
• Zach J. Johnson
• Ben Kern
• Johan Kok
• Sean McCarty
• David Muttitt
• Jason Schmuhl
• Brian Smock
• Bob Sowards
• Omar Uresti
• Ryan Vermeer
• Shawn Warren

9. Top 70 leaders in official money standings from the 2017 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and Barracuda Championship through the 2018 RBC Canadian Open

• An Byeong-hun
• Ryan Armour (11)
• Daniel Berger
• Rafa Cabrera-Bello (10)
• Patrick Cantlay (11)
• Kevin Chappell
• Austin Cook (11)
• Bryson DeChambeau (11)
• Tony Finau
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Brian Gay
• Emiliano Grillo
• Chesson Hadley
• Adam Hadwin
• Russell Henley
• Charley Hoffman
• J. B. Holmes (10)
• Billy Horschel (11)
• Beau Hossler
• Charles Howell III
• Kim Meen-whee
• Patton Kizzire (11)
• Andrew Landry (11)
• Luke List
• Kevin Na (11)
• Alex Norén
• Pat Perez (11)
• Scott Piercy (11)
• Ted Potter Jr. (11)
• Ian Poulter (11)
• Jon Rahm (11)
• Chez Reavie
• Justin Rose (10,11)
• Xander Schauffele (11)
• Ollie Schniederjans
• Charl Schwartzel
• Cameron Smith
• J. J. Spaun
• Kyle Stanley
• Brendan Steele (11)
• Jhonattan Vegas
• Aaron Wise (11)
• Gary Woodland (11)

10. Members of the United States and Europe 2016 Ryder Cup teams

• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Thomas Pieters
• Brandt Snedeker
• Andy Sullivan
• Chris Wood

• Lee Westwood did not play due to injury.^[13]

11. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2017 PGA Championship

• Brice Garnett
• Michael Kim
• Satoshi Kodaira
• Troy Merritt
• Andrew Putnam

12. Special invitations

• Kiradech Aphibarnrat
• Alexander Björk
• Jorge Campillo
• Stewart Cink
• Paul Dunne
• Ross Fisher
• Ryan Fox
• Dylan Frittelli
• Jim Furyk
• Branden Grace
• Bill Haas
• Seungsu Han
• Justin Harding
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Yuta Ikeda
• Im Sung-jae
• Shugo Imahira
• Russell Knox
• Mikko Korhonen
• Anirban Lahiri
• Alexander Lévy
• Li Haotong
• Mike Lorenzo-Vera
• Jamie Lovemark
• Shane Lowry
• Yūsaku Miyazato
• Joaquín Niemann
• Thorbjørn Olesen
• Adrián Otaegui
• Eddie Pepperell
• Adam Scott
• Shubhankar Sharma
• Brandon Stone
• Julian Suri
• Ryuko Tokimatsu
• Peter Uihlein
• Matt Wallace
• Nick Watney

• Thomas Bjørn did not play due to a back injury.^[14]

13. Players below 70th place in official money standings, to fill the field

Alternates (category 13)

1. Jason Kokrak (71st in standings; replaced Lee Westwood)^[13]
2. Chris Kirk (72, took spot reserved for WGC-Bridgestone Invitational winner)
3. Kevin Streelman (79, replaced Thomas Bjørn)^[14]
4. Kelly Kraft (80, replaced Louis Oosthuizen)^[12]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Gary Woodland holed five birdies on the back nine to lead by one over Rickie Fowler. A total of 47 players ended the opening day under par.^[15][16]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gary Woodland	64	−6
2	Rickie Fowler	65	−5
T3	Brandon Stone	66	−4
	Zach Johnson
T5	Stewart Cink	67	−3
	Austin Cook
	Jason Day
	Brian Gay
	Dustin Johnson
	Kevin Kisner
	Pat Perez
	Thomas Pieters
	Ian Poulter
	Justin Rose
	Ollie Schniederjans

Source:^[17]

Second round

Friday, August 10, 2018

Play was suspended Friday afternoon at 3:35 pm due to dangerous weather with half of the field still on the course.^[18] Play was set to resume Saturday morning at 7 am local time with the third round to follow at about 11:15 am. Gary Woodland was the clubhouse leader at 130 (−10), which set a PGA Championship record for low 36-hole score. Two players, Brooks Koepka and Charl Schwartzel, shot record-tying rounds of 63.^[19]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gary Woodland	64-66=130	−10
2	Kevin Kisner	67-64=131	−9
3	Brooks Koepka	69-63=132	−8
T4	Rickie Fowler	65 (−2 thru 10)	−7
	Dustin Johnson	67-66=133
	Thomas Pieters	67-66=133
	Charl Schwartzel	70-63=133
8	Brandon Stone	66-68=134	−6
T9	Patrick Cantlay	68-67=135	−5
	Billy Horschel	68 (−3 thru 10)
	Jason Kokrak	68-67=135
	Francesco Molinari	68-67=135
	Pat Perez	67 (−2 thru 9)
	Jon Rahm	68-67=135
	Adam Scott	70-65=135

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gary Woodland	64-66=130	−10
2	Kevin Kisner	67-64=131	−9
T3	Rickie Fowler	65-67=132	−8
	Brooks Koepka	69-63=132
T5	Dustin Johnson	67-66=133	−7
	Shane Lowry	69-64=133
	Thomas Pieters	67-66=133
	Charl Schwartzel	70-63=133
T9	Pat Perez	67-67=134	−6
	Brandon Stone	66-68=134
	Justin Thomas	69-65=134

Source:^[17]

Third round

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Brooks Koepka's 66 gave him a two-shot lead as he attempted to become the first player since Tiger Woods in 2000 to win both the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship in the same season.^[20]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brooks Koepka	69-63-66=198	−12
2	Adam Scott	70-65-65=200	−10
T3	Rickie Fowler	65-67-69=201	−9
	Jon Rahm	68-67-66=201
	Gary Woodland	64-66-71=201
T6	Stewart Cink	67-69-66=202	−8
	Jason Day	67-68-67=202
	Shane Lowry	69-64-69=202
	Charl Schwartzel	70-63-69=202
	Justin Thomas	69-65-68=202
	Tiger Woods	70-66-66=202

Source:^[17]

Final round

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Summary

Brooks Koepka duplicated his Saturday score of 66 to win by two strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods, who fired a 64 in the best final round of his career in a major. Koepka became the fifth American player to win three majors before the age of 29, joining Jack Nicklaus, Jordan Spieth, Tom Watson and Woods.

His 72-hole score of 264 set the PGA Championship record (previously 265 set by David Toms in 2001) and equaled the lowest total in major championship history (set by Henrik Stenson at the 2016 Open Championship).^[21]

Final leaderboard

Champion

Crystal Bowl winner (leading PGA Club Pro)

(c) = past champion

Note: Top 15 and ties qualify for the 2019 PGA Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2019 Masters Tournament

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Brooks Koepka	69-63-66-66=264	−16	1,980,000
2	Tiger Woods (c)	70-66-66-64=266	−14	1,188,000
3	Adam Scott	70-65-65-67=267	−13	748,000
T4	Stewart Cink	67-69-66-67=269	−11	489,250
	Jon Rahm	68-67-66-68=269
T6	Francesco Molinari	68-67-68-67=270	−10	334,713
	Thomas Pieters	67-66-71-66=270
	Justin Thomas (c)	69-65-68-68=270
	Gary Woodland	64-66-71-69=270
T10	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	70-68-69-64=271	−9	261,985
	Tyrrell Hatton	71-67-69-64=271

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Daniel Berger	73-65-66-68=272	−8	187,747
	Rickie Fowler	65-67-69-71=272
	Kevin Kisner	67-64-72-69=272
	Shane Lowry	69-64-69-70=272
	Chez Reavie	71-68-67-66=272
	Jordan Spieth	71-66-69-66=272
	Brandon Stone	66-68-70-68=272
T19	Jason Day (c)	67-68-67-71=273	−7	113,125
	Zach Johnson	66-70-71-66=273
	Jason Kokrak	68-67-71-67=273
	Kevin Na	70-69-68-66=273
	Justin Rose	67-69-69-68=273
	Webb Simpson	68-68-68-69=273
	Julian Suri	69-66-68-70=273
	Matt Wallace	71-66-68-68=273
T27	Patrick Cantlay	68-67-70-69=274	−6	76,000
	Ryan Fox	68-70-68-68=274
	Branden Grace	68-70-68-68=274
	Dustin Johnson	67-66-72-69=274
T31	Dylan Frittelli	73-67-67-68=275	−5	63,500
	Emiliano Grillo	69-67-69-70=275
	Chris Kirk	68-70-68-69=275
	Ian Poulter	67-70-68-70=275
T35	Tommy Fleetwood	69-70-69-68=276	−4	48,429
	Billy Horschel	68-69-69-70=276
	Russell Knox	71-68-69-68=276
	Hideki Matsuyama	68-69-73-66=276
	Pat Perez	67-67-70-72=276
	Xander Schauffele	70-67-67-72=276
	J. J. Spaun	69-68-72-67=276
T42	Keegan Bradley (c)	69-68-71-69=277	−3	33,281
	Tony Finau	74-66-69-68=277
	Im Sung-jae	71-67-71-68=277
	Martin Kaymer (c)	71-69-67-70=277
	Ben Kern	71-69-67-70=277
	Charl Schwartzel	70-63-69-75=277
	Brandt Snedeker	72-67-69-69=277
	Jimmy Walker (c)	69-70-69-69=277
T50	Austin Cook	67-72-69-70=278	−2	24,833
	Brice Garnett	71-68-69-70=278
	Seungsu Han	74-66-66-72=278
	Russell Henley	74-65-71-68=278
	Andrew Landry	73-65-69-71=278
	Rory McIlroy (c)	70-67-71-70=278
T56	An Byeong-hun	70-70-69-70=279	−1	22,567
	Thorbjørn Olesen	70-68-73-68=279
	Cameron Smith	74-66-73-66=279
T59	Satoshi Kodaira	71-68-69-72=280	E	21,317
	Ryan Moore	69-70-68-73=280
	Eddie Pepperell	72-66-67-75=280
	Andrew Putnam	68-69-72-71=280
	Ollie Schniederjans	67-71-72-70=280
	Jhonattan Vegas	70-70-70-70=280
T65	Kevin Chappell	69-71-70-71=281	+1	20,100
	Ross Fisher	68-69-73-71=281
	Yuta Ikeda	68-69-71-73=281
	Mike Lorenzo-Vera	73-65-70-73=281
	Adrián Otaegui	73-67-69-72=281
	Chris Stroud	69-70-76-66=281
T71	Jim Furyk	69-71-71-71=282	+2	19,200
	Brian Harman	72-68-71-71=282
	Charles Howell III	74-66-72-70=282
	Marc Leishman	68-71-72-71=282
	Joaquín Niemann	68-71-71-72=282
	Ted Potter Jr.	74-66-68-74=282
	Nick Watney	75-65-70-72=282
78	Vijay Singh (c)	71-69-71-72=283	+3	18,800
79	Brian Gay	67-73-75-72=287	+7	18,700
80	Scott Brown	72-68-74-75=289	+9	18,600
CUT	Bryson DeChambeau	71-70=141	+1
	Sergio García	70-71=141
	Pádraig Harrington (c)	71-70=141
	J. B. Holmes	73-68=141
	Shugo Imahira	72-69=141
	Patton Kizzire	72-69=141
	Matt Kuchar	71-70=141
	Luke List	71-70=141
	Davis Love III (c)	75-66=141
	Troy Merritt	71-70=141
	Kyle Stanley	68-73=141
	Brendan Steele	73-68=141
	Ryan Armour	69-73=142	+2
	Matt Fitzpatrick	72-70=142
	Bill Haas	72-70=142
	Justin Harding	72-70=142
	Kim Meen-whee	75-67=142
	Shaun Micheel (c)	73-69=142
	Alex Norén	71-71=142
	Jordan Smith	74-68=142
	Henrik Stenson	73-69=142
	Kevin Streelman	72-70=142
	Peter Uihlein	73-69=142
	Rich Beem (c)	74-69=143	+3
	John Daly (c)	73-70=143
	Adam Hadwin	71-72=143
	James Hahn	73-70=143
	Charley Hoffman	72-71=143
	Mikko Korhonen	68-75=143
	Anirban Lahiri	70-73=143
	Alexander Lévy	76-67=143
	Sean McCarty	74-69=143
	Patrick Reed	72-71=143
	Shubhankar Sharma	69-74=143
	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	75-69=144	+4
	Paul Broadhurst	74-70=144
	Jason Dufner (c)	72-72=144
	Beau Hossler	73-71=144
	Phil Mickelson (c)	73-71=144
	Andy Sullivan	75-69=144
	Ryuko Tokimatsu	73-71=144
	Danny Willett	73-71=144
	Aaron Wise	76-68=144
	Chris Wood	70-74=144
	Alexander Björk	72-73=145	+5
	Craig Hocknull	72-73=145
	Zach J. Johnson	76-69=145
	Kelly Kraft	71-74=145
	Paul Dunne	73-73=146	+6
	Jamie Lovemark	71-75=146
	Scott Piercy	74-72=146
	Ryan Vermeer	73-73=146
	Danny Balin	72-75=147	+7
	Matt Dobyns	76-71=147
	Jason Schmuhl	74-73=147
	Yang Yong-eun (c)	73-74=147
	Rich Berberian Jr.	74-74=148	+8
	Matt Borchert	74-74=148
	Paul Casey	75-73=148
	Chesson Hadley	75-73=148
	Omar Uresti	75-73=148
	Shawn Warren	77-71=148
	Bubba Watson	70-78=148
	Craig Bowden	75-74=149	+9
Kim Si-woo	72-77=149
Michael Block	75-75=150	+10
Marty Jertson	76-74=150
Michael Kim	73-77=150
David Muttitt	81-69=150
Brian Smock	79-71=150
Jaysen Hansen	76-75=151	+11
Johan Kok	78-73=151
Jorge Campillo	78-74=152	+12
Yūsaku Miyazato	76-77=153	+13
Bob Sowards	80-75=155	+15
WD	Li Haotong	71	+1

Source:^[17]

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4
Koepka	−13	−13	−13	−12	−11	−11	−12	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−16	−16	−16
Woods	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−13	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14
Scott	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13
Cink	−8	−8	−9	−8	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11
Rahm	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−10	−11
Molinari	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10
Pieters	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−12	−10	−10
Thomas	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10
Woodland	−9	−9	−9	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−7	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[17]