2018_PGA_Championship

2018 PGA Championship

2018 PGA Championship

2018 Golf Major in Town and Country, Missouri

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]

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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
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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]

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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]

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Saturday, August 11, 2018

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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]

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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

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Scorecard

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Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey

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References

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