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 scheduled to be the last held in the month of August. Just before the 2017 tournament, the PGA announced that the Championship would 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:- , par 71 - 1992 PGA Championship
- , par 70 - 1965 U.S. Open
Field
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
- 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
- Sergio García
- Patrick Reed
- Jordan Spieth
- Bubba Watson
- Danny Willett
- Dustin Johnson
- Brooks Koepka
- Zach Johnson
- Francesco Molinari
- Henrik Stenson
- Kim Si-woo
- Webb Simpson
- Paul Broadhurst
- Scott Brown
- Paul Casey
- Rickie Fowler
- James Hahn
- Brian Harman
- Kevin Kisner
- Matt Kuchar
- Marc Leishman
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Ryan Moore
- Jordan Smith
- Chris Stroud
- Graham DeLaet and Louis Oosthuizen did not play due to injury.
- 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
- 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
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Thomas Pieters
- Brandt Snedeker
- Andy Sullivan
- Chris Wood
- Lee Westwood did not play due to injury.
- Brice Garnett
- Michael Kim
- Satoshi Kodaira
- Troy Merritt
- Andrew Putnam
- 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.
Alternates
- Jason Kokrak
- Chris Kirk
- Kevin Streelman
- Kelly Kraft
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, August 9, 2018Gary 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.
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| 1 | ![]() Second roundFriday, August 10, 2018Play 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.
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