2023 PGA Championship

StatisticsPar70Length7,394 yards (6,761 m)Field156, 76 after cutCut145 (+5)Prize fund$17,500,000^[1]Winner's share$3,150,000Champion Brooks Koepka271 (−9)Location map

The 2023 PGA Championship was the 105th PGA Championship. It was a 72-hole stroke play tournament played on May 18–21 on the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York.

Brooks Koepka finished at nine under for the tournament to win his third career PGA Championship and fifth major championship by two shots over Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler.^[2] Koepka joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players to win three PGA titles in the stroke-play era and became the 20th player to win five majors.^[3] With the victory, Koepka became the first golfer to win a major golf championship as a member of LIV Golf.^[4]

Venue

Oak Hill Country Club previously hosted six major championships, the last being the 2013 PGA Championship. The course underwent a significant renovation beginning in 2019, including the removal of several trees and rebuild of the greens with bentgrass. The old par-3 sixth hole was removed and the fifth, sixth, and 15th holes were completely redesigned.^[5][6]

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	460	405	230	615	180	503	461	429	482	3,765	430	245	399	623	320	155	458	502	497	3,629	7,394
Par	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	4	4	35	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	35	70

Source:^[7]

Previous course lengths for major championships

• 7,163 yards (6,550 m) – par 70, 2013 PGA Championship
• 7,134 yards (6,523 m) – par 70, 2003 PGA Championship
• 6,902 yards (6,311 m) – par 70, 1989 U.S. Open
• 6,964 yards (6,368 m) – par 70, 1980 PGA Championship
• 6,962 yards (6,366 m) – par 70, 1968 U.S. Open
• 6,902 yards (6,311 m) – par 70, 1956 U.S. Open

Field

Criteria

This list details the qualification criteria for the 2023 PGA Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified are indicated in parentheses.^[8]

1. All past winners of the PGA Championship

• John Daly, Jason Dufner, Martin Kaymer, Davis Love III and Vijay Singh withdrew after the initial field release.^[9][10][11]
• Paul Azinger, Rich Beem, Mark Brooks, Jack Burke Jr., Steve Elkington, Raymond Floyd, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, 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 and Tiger Woods (2)^[a] were not in the initially released field.

2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2019–2023)

3. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2022)

4. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2017–2022)

5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2021–2023)

6. The top three on the Official World Golf Ranking's International Federation Ranking List as of April 24, 2023.

7. Current Senior PGA Champion

• Steven Alker

8. The leading 15 players, and those tying for 15th place, in the 2022 PGA Championship

• Will Zalatoris (10,12) was not in the field.^[b]

9. The leading 20 players in the 2023 PGA Professional Championship

10. Top 70 eligible players from special money list on the PGA Tour from the 2022 AT&T Byron Nelson to the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship

11. Playing members of the 2021 Ryder Cup teams, who are ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 7, 2023^[c]

12. Winners of official tournaments on the PGA Tour from the 2022 PGA Championship until the start of the championship

13. PGA of America invitees^[d]

• Paul Casey withdrew.^[14]

14. If necessary, the field is completed by players in order of PGA Championship points earned (per 10)

Alternates who gained entry

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, May 18, 2023
Friday, May 19, 2023

A frost delay caused tee times to be delayed on Thursday by almost 2 hours, ultimately resulting in play being suspended at 8:50 pm EDT due to darkness. 10 groups did not finish their rounds due to the suspension of play. Play resumed at 7:00 am EST on Friday.^[16]

Bryson DeChambeau made three birdies over his final nine holes to shoot 66 (−4) and move atop the leaderboard at the end of the first round.^[17]

Eric Cole, making his PGA Championship debut after getting into the field as an alternate, made three straight birdies on holes 2–4 and was alone in first place at five under when play was halted. He double-bogeyed the sixth hole (his 15th) on Friday morning to drop back to three under and a shot behind DeChambeau. Scottie Scheffler did not make a bogey in a round of 67 to join Cole in a tie for second place, along with Dustin Johnson who was tied with DeChambeau until a bogey on the 18th. Adam Scott also got to four under until a double bogey on the 18th dropped back to two under and a four-way tie for sixth place that included 2011 champion Keegan Bradley.^[18][19]

Defending champion Justin Thomas made a double bogey on the sixth hole and shot two-over 72 in his opening round. World No. 1 Jon Rahm made six bogeys, including on his final three holes, and a double bogey as he began the tournament with a six-over 76.^[20]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Bryson DeChambeau	66	−4
T2	Eric Cole	67	−3
	Corey Conners
	Dustin Johnson
	Scottie Scheffler
T6	Keegan Bradley	68	−2
	Ryan Fox
	Viktor Hovland
	Adam Scott
T10	Hayden Buckley	69	−1
	Pablo Larrazábal
	Keith Mitchell
	Thomas Pieters
	Justin Rose
	Sepp Straka
	Justin Suh

Source:^[1]

Second round

Friday, May 19, 2023

Corey Conners, Viktor Hovland, and Scottie Scheffler tied for the lead through 36 holes at five under. Scheffler, one back at the start of the round, birdied the first hole after hitting his approach to within two feet. He bogeyed the seventh hole, his first bogey of the tournament, before hitting his tee shot on the par-three 15th hole to a foot for a birdie and a share of the lead with Conners. A closing bogey dropped Scheffler back to five under after a two-under round of 68.^[21]

Conners was three under on his round and alone in first place at six under before a bogey at the seventh hole (his 16th) to match Scheffler's 68. Hovland birdied his first two holes, including holing a 20-foot putt on the second, then made another 18-footer for birdie at the 10th. At the 18th, Hovland hit his approach to five feet and made the putt for a closing birdie and a 67 (−3). It was Hovland's 10th consecutive major championship round inside the top 10 on the leaderboard.^[22]

First-round leader Bryson DeChambeau double-bogeyed the sixth hole after hitting his approach shot into a greenside bunker and fell as many as five shots off the lead before making three birdies on the back nine to get back to four under. He found another bunker on the 18th and made bogey to fall to three under, two shots back of the lead. Justin Suh joined him in a tie for fourth place after making a 33-foot birdie putt on the eighth hole, his 17th.^[23]

Two-time champion Brooks Koepka made five birdies on his closing nine holes, including both the 17th and 18th, to shoot a four-under 66 and climb into a tie for sixth place at two under. Michael Block, a club pro in California, was three under on his round before a bogey at the par-5 fourth hole and double bogey on the par-3 fifth after his tee shot struck a tree. He finished at even par and tied for 10th place, the first PGA professional to be inside the top 10 after the second round since 1988.^[24]

The cut came at 145 (+5), with 76 players making it to the weekend. Defending champion Justin Thomas needed a seven-foot putt to save bogey on the 18th hole and make the cut on the number, as did two-time champion Phil Mickelson. Notables to miss the cut included 2015 champion Jason Day and reigning U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick.^[25]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Corey Conners	67-68=135	−5
	Viktor Hovland	68-67=135
	Scottie Scheffler	67-68=135
T4	Bryson DeChambeau	66-71=137	−3
	Justin Suh	69-68=137
T6	Brooks Koepka	72-66=138	−2
	Callum Tarren	71-67=138
T8	Taylor Pendrith	70-69=139	−1
	Justin Rose	69-70=139
T10	Michael Block	70-70=140	E
	Keegan Bradley	68-72=140
	Min Woo Lee	73-67=140
	Shane Lowry	73-67=140
	Rory McIlroy	71-69=140
	Keith Mitchell	69-71=140
	Matthew NeSmith	70-70=140
	Sepp Straka	69-71=140
	Adam Svensson	70-70=140

Source:^[1]

Third round

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Two-time champion Brooks Koepka shot a second consecutive round of 66 (−4) to take the 54-hole lead. Koepka made three birdies on the back nine, including a 46-foot putt on the 17th to reach six under for the tournament and a shot ahead of Corey Conners and Viktor Hovland.^[26]

Conners, part of a three-way tie for the lead at the start of the round, reached seven under after a birdie at the par-3 15th hole. At the 16th, he drove into a bunker off the tee then had his second shot embed in the bank, leading to a double bogey that dropped him back to five under and an even-par round of 70. Hovland was two-over on his round before making three birdies in a five-hole span from 8-12. He holed an 18-footer for birdie at the 11th, then hit his approach on the 12th to four feet and made the putt to tie Conners for the lead at six under. He failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker on the 18th for a closing bogey, matching Conners' 70.^[27]

Bryson DeChambeau double-bogeyed the sixth hole after finding water off the tee and also bogeyed the par-5 13th to fall to two-over on his round. He rebounded with birdie on the short par-4 14th after driving near the green, then hit his approach on the 15th to seven feet for another birdie to shoot 70 and finish alone in fourth place at three under, three shots off the lead. Scottie Scheffler, tied with Conners and Hovland for the lead at the start of the round, made four bogeys on his front nine and did not make his first birdie until the 14th as he fell back with a three-over 73, ending up in a tie for fifth place at two under.^[28]

Club pro Michael Block shot even-par 70 for the third consecutive round and was tied for eighth place, becoming the first PGA professional to be inside the top 10 after the third round since Jay Overton in 1988.^[29]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brooks Koepka	72-66-66=204	−6
T2	Corey Conners	67-68-70=205	−5
	Viktor Hovland	68-67-70=205
4	Bryson DeChambeau	66-71-70=207	−3
T5	Justin Rose	69-70-69=208	−2
	Scottie Scheffler	67-68-73=208
7	Rory McIlroy	71-69-69=209	−1
T8	Michael Block	70-70-70=210	E
	Justin Suh	69-68-73=210
T10	Eric Cole	67-74-70=211	+1
	Tommy Fleetwood	72-71-68=211
	Stephan Jäger	72-70-69=211
	Min Woo Lee	73-67-71=211
	Shane Lowry	73-67-71=211
	Victor Perez	70-72-69=211

Source:^[1]

Final round

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Summary

Brooks Koepka shot a final-round 67 to win his third PGA Championship and fifth major championship by two shots over Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler.^[30]

Beginning the round with a one-stroke lead, Koepka made three straight birdies to increase the gap to three shots after four holes. He hit his tee shot on the sixth hole into the hazard and made his first bogey of the round, then made another bogey on the seventh when his approach shot hung in the rough around a greenside bunker. Koepka rebounded with birdies on the 10th and 12th, holing a 10-foot putt from just off the green, to offset another bogey on the par-3 11th after his tee shot plugged in a bunker.^[31]

Hovland, meanwhile, made two birdies on the front nine including a 17-foot putt on the par-3 fifth hole as he stayed within one shot of Koepka's lead making the turn. He also birdied the 13th and 14th to go three under on his round and was still a shot behind Koepka heading to the 16th. He hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker, then had his second shot embed in the bank forcing him to take a drop and settle for a double bogey. Koepka birdied the hole after hitting his approach inside five feet as he opened up a four-shot lead with just two holes to play. Despite a bogey on the 17th, Koepka was able to two-putt for par on the 18th to finish at nine under.^[32]

Scottie Scheffler made four birdies on the back nine and got within two shots of Koepka's lead as he shot a five-under 65, tying the lowest round of any player in the tournament, to tie Hovland for second place. Scheffler's finish coupled with Jon Rahm's T50 finish returned Scheffler to world number one. Corey Conners, who began the round a shot off the lead, made seven bogeys in a five-over 75 to fall into a tie for 12th place. Club pro Michael Block made a hole-in-one on the 15th hole and shot 71 (+1), his tie for 15th place the best finish by a PGA professional since 1986.^[33]

Final leaderboard

Champion

Crystal Bowl winner (leading PGA Club Pro)

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Brooks Koepka (c)	72-66-66-67=271	−9	3,150,000
T2	Viktor Hovland	68-67-70-68=273	−7	1,540,000
	Scottie Scheffler	67-68-73-65=273
T4	Cameron Davis	71-70-71-65=277	−3	720,000
	Bryson DeChambeau	66-71-70-70=277
	Kurt Kitayama	70-71-71-65=277
T7	Rory McIlroy (c)	71-69-69-69=278	−2	555,000
	Sepp Straka	69-71-73-65=278
T9	Patrick Cantlay	74-67-72-66=279	−1	465,000
	Justin Rose	69-70-69-71=279
	Cameron Smith	72-72-70-65=279

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Corey Conners	67-68-70-75=280	E	365,000
	Shane Lowry	73-67-71-69=280
	Victor Perez	70-72-69-69=280
T15	Michael Block	70-70-70-71=281	+1	288,333
	Eric Cole	67-74-70-70=281
	Tyrrell Hatton	77-68-69-67=281
T18	Tommy Fleetwood	72-71-68-71=282	+2	214,400
	Min Woo Lee	73-67-71-71=282
	Mito Pereira	72-69-74-67=282
	Patrick Reed	72-71-69-70=282
	Xander Schauffele	72-72-71-67=282
T23	Ryan Fox	68-73-71-71=283	+3	165,000
	Matthew NeSmith	70-70-74-69=283
	Alex Smalley	73-72-70-68=283
T26	Hayden Buckley	69-74-71-70=284	+4	135,000
	Collin Morikawa (c)	71-70-74-69=284
	Justin Suh	69-68-73-74=284
T29	Keegan Bradley (c)	68-72-74-71=285	+5	90,136
	Chris Kirk	70-75-69-71=285
	Lee Kyoung-hoon	73-68-75-69=285
	Hideki Matsuyama	72-71-70-72=285
	Denny McCarthy	75-70-72-68=285
	Taylor Pendrith	70-69-74-72=285
	Patrick Rodgers	70-75-72-68=285
	Adam Scott	68-74-74-69=285
	Jordan Spieth	73-72-71-69=285
	Callum Tarren	71-67-79-68=285
	Harold Varner III	70-71-74-70=285
T40	Thomas Detry	74-71-73-68=286	+6	46,900
	Adam Hadwin	70-73-73-70=286
	Lucas Herbert	75-69-72-70=286
	Beau Hossler	71-70-74-71=286
	Adrian Meronk	75-69-74-68=286
	Thomas Pieters	69-76-70-71=286
	J. T. Poston	72-70-75-69=286
	Chez Reavie	76-68-71-71=286
	Adam Svensson	70-70-73-73=286
	Sahith Theegala	71-71-71-73=286
T50	Pádraig Harrington (c)	72-71-75-69=287	+7	37,625
	Nicolai Højgaard	76-67-73-71=287
	Stephan Jäger	72-70-69-76=287
	Jon Rahm	76-68-72-71=287
54	Dean Burmester	73-71-72-72=288	+8	36,000
T55	Lee Hodges	75-70-75-69=289	+9	35,000
	Max Homa	71-72-74-72=289
	Dustin Johnson	67-74-74-74=289
T58	Tom Hoge	74-70-72-74=290	+10	33,250
	Zach Johnson	74-71-74-71=290
	Phil Mickelson (c)	73-72-75-70=290
	Keith Mitchell	69-71-73-77=290
T62	Rikuya Hoshino	75-70-75-71=291	+11	31,500
	Sihwan Kim	75-68-75-73=291
	Thriston Lawrence	75-69-73-74=291
T65	Pablo Larrazábal	69-75-74-74=292	+12	29,750
	Taylor Montgomery	75-70-76-71=292
	Justin Thomas (c)	72-73-75-72=292
	Matt Wallace	73-70-75-74=292
T69	Joel Dahmen	74-69-78-72=293	+13	28,000
	Yannik Paul	76-69-73-75=293
	Ben Taylor	72-72-78-71=293
T72	Tony Finau	72-73-73-77=295	+15	26,500
	Taylor Moore	74-69-78-74=295
	Sam Stevens	71-72-73-79=295
75	Mark Hubbard	71-74-79-74=298	+18	25,500
76	Kazuki Higa	72-73-77-78=300	+20	25,000
CUT	Adri Arnaus	76-70=146	+6
	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	73-73=146
	Matt Fitzpatrick	76-70=146
	Rickie Fowler	73-73=146
	Brian Harman	72-74=146
	Billy Horschel	71-75=146
	Kim Si-woo	73-73=146
	Andrew Putnam	74-72=146
	Jordan Smith	73-73=146
	Brendan Steele	72-74=146
	Davis Thompson	77-69=146
	Luke Donald	72-75=147	+7
	Ben Griffin	75-72=147
	Russell Henley	73-74=147
	Matt Kuchar	74-73=147
	Anirban Lahiri	74-73=147
	Francesco Molinari	74-73=147
	Alex Norén	74-73=147
	Davis Riley	72-75=147
	Nick Taylor	71-76=147
	Brendon Todd	76-71=147
	Wyndham Clark	77-71=148	+8
	Jason Day (c)	76-72=148
	Mackenzie Hughes	74-74=148
	Colin Inglis	77-71=148
	Tom Kim	73-75=148
	Trey Mullinax	77-71=148
	Joaquín Niemann	74-74=148
	Adrián Otaegui	75-73=148
	Callum Shinkwin	74-74=148
	Scott Stallings	74-74=148
	Gary Woodland	73-75=148
	Nico Echavarría	75-74=149	+9
	Harris English	74-75=149
	Emiliano Grillo	78-71=149
	Nick Hardy	76-73=149
	Rasmus Højgaard	75-74=149
	David Micheluzzi	76-73=149
	Séamus Power	75-74=149
	J. J. Spaun	74-75=149
	Jimmy Walker (c)	73-76=149
	Brandon Wu	74-75=149
	Cameron Young	74-75=149
	Matt Cahill	78-72=150	+10
	Talor Gooch	76-74=150
	Abraham Ancer	76-75=151	+11
	Maverick McNealy	78-73=151
	Thorbjørn Olesen	74-77=151
	Danny Willett	74-77=151
	Yang Yong-eun (c)	76-75=151
	Steven Alker	80-72=152	+12
	Steve Holmes	76-76=152
	Sadom Kaewkanjana	76-76=152
	Greg Koch	78-74=152
	Robert MacIntyre	76-76=152
	Sam Ryder	78-74=152
	Braden Shattuck	79-73=152
	Jeremy Wells	74-78=152
	Im Sung-jae	80-73=153	+13
	Ben Kern	76-77=153
	J. J. Killeen	73-80=153
	Kevin Kisner	75-78=153
	David Lingmerth	76-77=153
	Adam Schenk	74-79=153
Ockie Strydom	77-76=153
Sam Burns	74-80=154	+14
Webb Simpson	77-77=154
Aaron Wise	75-79=154
Chris French	78-77=155	+15
Jesse Droemer	77-79=156	+16
John Somers	76-80=156
Alex Beach	80-77=157	+17
Anthony Cordes	79-78=157
Josh Speight	75-82=157
Wyatt Worthington II	75-82=157
Russell Grove	79-79=158	+18
Kenny Pigman	81-78=159	+19
Gabe Reynolds	85-75=160	+20
Shaun Micheel (c)	81-82=163	+23
Chris Sanger	84-81=165	+25

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	4	4
Koepka	−6	−7	−8	−9	−9	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9
Hovland	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−6	−6	−7
Scheffler	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7
Davis	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+1	E	E	E	E	E	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3
DeChambeau	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
Kitayama	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
McIlroy	−2	−1	−1	E	E	−1	E	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2
Straka	+2	+1	+1	+1	E	+1	+1	E	+1	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2
Rose	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1
Conners	−5	−5	−4	−5	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	E
Block	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	E	+1	+1	+1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double Bogey

Source:^[1]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Media Guide