2018 PGA Championship
Tournament information
DatesAugust 9–12, 2018
LocationTown and Country, Missouri
38°39′36″N 90°28′59″W / 38.66°N 90.483°W / 38.66; -90.483
Course(s)Bellerive Country Club
Organized byPGA of America
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par70
Length7,316 yards (6,690 m)
Field156 players, 80 after cut
Cut140 (E)
Prize fund$11,000,000
€9,500,693
Winner's share$1,980,000
€1,710,125
Champion
United States Brooks Koepka
264 (−16)
Location Map
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Location in the United States
Bellerive CC is located in Missouri
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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]

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:

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

2. Winners of the last five Masters Tournaments

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

4. Winners of the last five Open Championships

5. Winners of the last three Players Championships

6. Current Senior PGA Champion

7. Top 15 and ties from the 2017 PGA Championship

8. Top 20 in the 2018 PGA Professional Championship

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

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

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

12. Special invitations

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 United States Gary Woodland 64 −6
2 United States Rickie Fowler 65 −5
T3 South Africa Brandon Stone 66 −4
United States Zach Johnson
T5 United States Stewart Cink 67 −3
United States Austin Cook
Australia Jason Day
United States Brian Gay
United States Dustin Johnson
United States Kevin Kisner
United States Pat Perez
Belgium Thomas Pieters
England Ian Poulter
England Justin Rose
United States 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 United States Gary Woodland 64-66=130 −10
2 United States Kevin Kisner 67-64=131 −9
3 United States Brooks Koepka 69-63=132 −8
T4 United States Rickie Fowler 65 (−2 thru 10) −7
United States Dustin Johnson 67-66=133
Belgium Thomas Pieters 67-66=133
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 70-63=133
8 South Africa Brandon Stone 66-68=134 −6
T9 United States Patrick Cantlay 68-67=135 −5
United States Billy Horschel 68 (−3 thru 10)
United States Jason Kokrak 68-67=135
Italy Francesco Molinari 68-67=135
United States Pat Perez 67 (−2 thru 9)
Spain Jon Rahm 68-67=135
Australia Adam Scott 70-65=135

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Gary Woodland 64-66=130 −10
2 United States Kevin Kisner 67-64=131 −9
T3 United States Rickie Fowler 65-67=132 −8
United States Brooks Koepka 69-63=132
T5 United States Dustin Johnson 67-66=133 −7
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 69-64=133
Belgium Thomas Pieters 67-66=133
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 70-63=133
T9 United States Pat Perez 67-67=134 −6
South Africa Brandon Stone 66-68=134
United States 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 United States Brooks Koepka 69-63-66=198 −12
2 Australia Adam Scott 70-65-65=200 −10
T3 United States Rickie Fowler 65-67-69=201 −9
Spain Jon Rahm 68-67-66=201
United States Gary Woodland 64-66-71=201
T6 United States Stewart Cink 67-69-66=202 −8
Australia Jason Day 67-68-67=202
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 69-64-69=202
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 70-63-69=202
United States Justin Thomas 69-65-68=202
United States 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 United States Brooks Koepka 69-63-66-66=264 −16 1,980,000
2 United States Tiger Woods (c) 70-66-66-64=266 −14 1,188,000
3 Australia Adam Scott 70-65-65-67=267 −13 748,000
T4 United States Stewart Cink 67-69-66-67=269 −11 489,250
Spain Jon Rahm 68-67-66-68=269
T6 Italy Francesco Molinari 68-67-68-67=270 −10 334,713
Belgium Thomas Pieters 67-66-71-66=270
United States Justin Thomas (c) 69-65-68-68=270
United States Gary Woodland 64-66-71-69=270
T10 Spain Rafa Cabrera-Bello 70-68-69-64=271 −9 261,985
England Tyrrell Hatton 71-67-69-64=271

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
United States Koepka −13 −13 −13 −12 −11 −11 −12 −13 −14 −14 −14 −14 −14 −14 −15 −16 −16 −16
United States Woods −8 −9 −10 −10 −10 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −11 −12 −13 −12 −13 −13 −13 −14
Australia Scott −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −13 −14 −14 −14 −14 −14 −13
United States Cink −8 −8 −9 −8 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11
Spain Rahm −9 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −11 −10 −11
Italy Molinari −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10
Belgium Pieters −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −12 −10 −10
United States Thomas −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −11 −11 −10 −11 −12 −12 −12 −11 −11 −10 −10 −10
United States 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]

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