Tournaments / 2017-2018
PGA Championship
2018-08-09 · Bellerive CC
- Winner
- Brooks Koepka
- Winning score
- -16
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.597 SG
The 2017-2018 PGA Championship was played at Bellerive CC, starting 9 August 2018. Brooks Koepka won at 16 under par (264), 2 strokes ahead of Tiger Woods. The winning card was 69, 63, 66 and 66, and the win paid $1,980,000. Tiger Woods finished second, and Adam Scott was third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.597 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 61% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- Tiger Woods
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Stewart Cink
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
- Thomas Pieters
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 271
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 271
- Brandon Stone
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 272
- Shane Lowry
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 272
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 273
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.440
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 22.1
Grade is this event’s percentile (89th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Rickie Fowler | 1st | 12th |
| Jordan Spieth | 2nd | 12th |
| Dustin Johnson | 3rd | 27th |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 6th |
| Justin Rose | 5th | 19th |
| Tiger Woods | 6th | 2nd |
| Jon Rahm | 7th | 4th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 8th | 35th |
| Francesco Molinari | 9th | 6th |
| Jason Day | 10th | 19th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon Stone | 79th | 12th(−67) |
| Thomas Pieters | 66th | 6th(−60) |
| Marc Leishman | 14th | 71st(+57) |
| Matt Wallace | 74th | 19th(−55) |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 56th | 10th(−46) |
| Julian Suri | 65th | 19th(−46) |
| Dylan Frittelli | 75th | 31st(−44) |
| Brian Harman | 30th | 71st(+41) |
| Jason Kokrak | 60th | 19th(−41) |
| Charles Howell III | 31st | 71st(+40) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
The venue
This event was played at Bellerive CC in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the PGA Championship in 2017-2018?
- Brooks Koepka won the 2017-2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive CC, finishing 16 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 PGA Championship played?
- The 2017-2018 PGA Championship was played at Bellerive CC, starting 9 August 2018.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 PGA Championship?
- The winning score was 16 under par (264 strokes), posted by Brooks Koepka.
How many players were in the PGA Championship field?
- 156 players started the 2017-2018 PGA Championship. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.
Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.