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2018 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka wins at Bellerive Country Club

Brooks Koepka won the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club in Town and Country, Missouri with 264 (−16), by 2 strokes over Tiger Woods.

Updated October 23, 2026

See 2018 in Wanamaker Avenue, the PGA Championship room, or every year on the PGA Championship winners list.

Dates
August 9, 2018 to August 12, 2018
Course
Bellerive Country Club, Town and Country, Missouri
Edition
100th PGA Championship
Format
stroke play
Par
70 · 7,316 yards
Field
156
Made the cut
80 (cut at 140)
Purse
$11,000,000 · winner's share $1,980,000
Champion
Brooks Koepka · age 28 · United States · born West Palm Beach, Florida
Champion's title
1st PGA Championship
World ranking
No. 4
Winning score
69-63-66-66 = 264 (−16) · won by 2 strokes
Runner-up
Tiger Woods
54-hole leader
Brooks Koepka (198)
Caddie
Ricky Elliott
Low club professional
Ben Kern (277)

Winner and runner-up

Pos.PlayerR1R2R3R4TotalTo par
1Brooks Koepka69636666264−16
2Tiger Woods70666664266−14

What happened at the 2018 PGA Championship

Tiger Woods, starting Sunday T6 and four back, shot 64, the best final round of his major career, to finish second.

Koepka's 264 set the PGA Championship 72-hole scoring record and tied the major-championship record of the time.

How this was built

Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's PGA Championship data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.

Data: pga.json (the PGA Championship room's data: Tables 1A–1H).

Sources

  1. PGA of America history
  2. Golf Compendium 2018
  3. Today's Golfer purse history
  4. Salarysport prize-money history
  5. PGA of America 2018 leaderboard
  6. PGA Tour 2018 course stats
  7. Covers cut history
  8. Golf Monthly, Koepka caddie
  9. PGA Tour 2018 overview
  10. PGA of America club pros who made the cut
  11. OWGR player event table, 2018