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2019 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka wins at Bethpage State Park (Black Course)

Brooks Koepka won the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage State Park (Black Course) in Farmingdale, New York with 272 (−8), by 2 strokes over Dustin Johnson.

Updated October 23, 2026

See 2019 in Wanamaker Avenue, the PGA Championship room, or every year on the PGA Championship winners list.

Dates
May 16, 2019 to May 19, 2019
Course
Bethpage State Park (Black Course), Farmingdale, New York
Edition
101st PGA Championship
Format
stroke play
Par
70 · 7,459 yards
Field
156
Made the cut
82 (cut at 144)
Purse
$11,000,000 · winner's share $1,980,000
Champion
Brooks Koepka · age 29 · United States · born West Palm Beach, Florida
Champion's title
2nd PGA Championship
World ranking
No. 3
Winning score
63-65-70-74 = 272 (−8) · won by 2 strokes
Runner-up
Dustin Johnson
54-hole leader
Brooks Koepka (198)
Caddie
Ricky Elliott
Low club professional
Rob Labritz (290)

Winner and runner-up

Pos.PlayerR1R2R3R4TotalTo par
1Brooks Koepka63657074272−8
2Dustin Johnson69676969274−6

What happened at the 2019 PGA Championship

Koepka's 36-hole 128 set a championship record, and his seven-shot 54-hole lead was the largest in PGA Championship history.

Koepka shot 74 on Sunday as Dustin Johnson charged, but held on by two to become the first wire-to-wire winner (no ties) since Hal Sutton in 1983.

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 2019
  3. Today's Golfer purse history
  4. Salarysport prize-money history
  5. PGA Tour 2019 course stats
  6. Covers cut history
  7. Golf Monthly, Koepka caddie
  8. Golf Channel, Koepka No. 1 (2019)
  9. golf.com 2019 payouts
  10. PGA of America club pros who made the cut