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 and third major held at Bellerive. It was also the last to be held in the month of August. Just before the 2017 tournament, the PGA announced that the Championship will move to May in 2019.
Brooks Koepka won his third career major title, finishing two strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods. Koepka's 72-hole total of 264 set a PGA Championship record.

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.

Course layout

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:
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.
;1. All former winners of the PGA Championship
Rich Beem, Keegan Bradley, John Daly, Jason Day, Jason Dufner, Pádraig Harrington, Martin Kaymer, Davis Love III, Rory McIlroy, Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Justin Thomas, Jimmy Walker, Tiger Woods, Yang Yong-eun
;2. Winners of the last five Masters Tournaments
Sergio García, Patrick Reed, Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson, Danny Willett
;3. Winners of the last five U.S. Open Championships
Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka
;4. Winners of the last five Open Championships
Zach Johnson, Francesco Molinari, Henrik Stenson
;5. Winners of the last three Players Championships
Kim Si-woo, Webb Simpson
;6. Current Senior PGA Champion
Paul Broadhurst
;7. Top-15 and ties from the 2017 PGA Championship
Scott Brown, Paul Casey, Rickie Fowler, James Hahn, Brian Harman, Kevin Kisner, Matt Kuchar, Marc Leishman, Hideki Matsuyama, Ryan Moore, Jordan Smith, Chris Stroud
;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, Daniel Berger, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Patrick Cantlay, Kevin Chappell, Austin Cook, Bryson DeChambeau, Tony Finau, Tommy Fleetwood, Brian Gay, Emiliano Grillo, Chesson Hadley, Adam Hadwin, Russell Henley, Charley Hoffman, J. B. Holmes, Billy Horschel, Beau Hossler, Charles Howell III, Kim Meen-whee, Patton Kizzire, Andrew Landry, Luke List, Kevin Na, Alex Norén, Pat Perez, Scott Piercy, Ted Potter Jr., Ian Poulter, Jon Rahm, Chez Reavie, Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele, Ollie Schniederjans, Charl Schwartzel, Cameron Smith, J. J. Spaun, Kyle Stanley, Brendan Steele, Jhonattan Vegas, Aaron Wise, Gary Woodland
;10. Members of the United States and Europe 2016 Ryder Cup teams
Matthew Fitzpatrick, Thomas Pieters, Brandt Snedeker, Andy Sullivan, Chris Wood
;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
;13. Players below 70th place in official money standings, to fill the field
;Alternates
  1. Jason Kokrak
  2. Chris Kirk
  3. Kevin Streelman
  4. Kelly Kraft

    Nationalities in the field

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.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Gary Woodland64−6
2Rickie Fowler65−5
T3Brandon Stone66−4
T3Zach Johnson66−4
T5Stewart Cink67−3
T5Austin Cook67−3
T5Jason Day67−3
T5Brian Gay67−3
T5Dustin Johnson67−3
T5Kevin Kisner67−3
T5Pat Perez67−3
T5Thomas Pieters67−3
T5Ian Poulter67−3
T5Justin Rose67−3
T5Ollie Schniederjans67−3

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. 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, which set a PGA Championship record for low 36-hole score. Two players, Brooks Koepka and Charl Schwartzel, shot record-tying rounds of 63.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Gary Woodland64-66=130−10
2Kevin Kisner67-64=131−9
3Brooks Koepka69-63=132−8
T4Rickie Fowler65 −7
T4Dustin Johnson67-66=133−7
T4Thomas Pieters67-66=133−7
T4Charl Schwartzel70-63=133−7
8Brandon Stone66-68=134−6
T9Patrick Cantlay68-67=135−5
T9Billy Horschel68 −5
T9Jason Kokrak68-67=135−5
T9Francesco Molinari68-67=135−5
T9Pat Perez67 −5
T9Jon Rahm68-67=135−5
T9Adam Scott70-65=135−5

Saturday, August 11, 2018
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Gary Woodland64-66=130−10
2Kevin Kisner67-64=131−9
T3Rickie Fowler65-67=132−8
T3Brooks Koepka69-63=132−8
T5Dustin Johnson67-66=133−7
T5Shane Lowry69-64=133−7
T5Thomas Pieters67-66=133−7
T5Charl Schwartzel70-63=133−7
T9Pat Perez67-67=134−6
T9Brandon Stone66-68=134−6
T9Justin Thomas69-65=134−6

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.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Brooks Koepka69-63-66=198−12
2Adam Scott70-65-65=200−10
T3Rickie Fowler65-67-69=201−9
T3Jon Rahm68-67-66=201−9
T3Gary Woodland64-66-71=201−9
T6Stewart Cink67-69-66=202−8
T6Jason Day67-68-67=202−8
T6Shane Lowry69-64-69=202−8
T6Charl Schwartzel70-63-69=202−8
T6Justin Thomas69-65-68=202−8
T6Tiger Woods70-66-66=202−8

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 and equaled the lowest total in major championship history.

Final leaderboard

Note: Top 15 and ties qualify for the 2019 PGA Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2019 Masters Tournament
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Brooks Koepka69-63-66-66=264−161,980,000
2Tiger Woods 70-66-66-64=266−141,188,000
3Adam Scott70-65-65-67=267−13748,000
T4Stewart Cink67-69-66-67=269−11489,250
T4Jon Rahm68-67-66-68=269−11489,250
T6Francesco Molinari68-67-68-67=270−10334,713
T6Thomas Pieters67-66-71-66=270−10334,713
T6Justin Thomas 69-65-68-68=270−10334,713
T6Gary Woodland64-66-71-69=270−10334,713
T10Rafa Cabrera-Bello70-68-69-64=271−9261,985
T10Tyrrell Hatton71-67-69-64=271−9261,985

Scorecard

Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par443443454444344354
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