Tournaments / 2018-2019
PGA Championship
2019-05-16 · Bethpage State Park BK Course
- Winner
- Brooks Koepka
- Winning score
- -8
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.446 SG
The 2018-2019 PGA Championship was played at Bethpage State Park BK Course, starting 16 May 2019. Brooks Koepka won at 8 under par (272), 2 strokes ahead of Dustin Johnson. The winning card was 63, 65, 70 and 74, and the win paid $1,980,000. Dustin Johnson finished second, and Jordan Spieth, Matt Wallace and Patrick Cantlay tied for third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.446 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 63% 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 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
- 63
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 272
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Matt Wallace
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Luke List
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 279
- Sung Kang
- Pos
- 7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 280
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 281
- Erik van Rooyen
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 281
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 281
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Shane Lowry
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 282
- Jazz Janewattananond
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 77
- Total
- 282
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 283
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 283
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 77
- Total
- 283
- Lucas Bjerregaard
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 283
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 283
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 82 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.310
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 21.2
Grade is this event’s percentile (45th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 2nd |
| Justin Rose | 2nd | 29th |
| Rickie Fowler | 3rd | 36th |
| Rory McIlroy | 4th | 8th |
| Jason Day | 5th | 23rd |
| Patrick Cantlay | 6th | 3rd |
| Brooks Koepka | 7th | 1st |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 8th | 48th |
| Tony Finau | 9th | 64th |
| Paul Casey | 10th | 29th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Lucas Bjerregaard | 80th | 16th(−64) |
| Mike Lorenzo-Vera | 78th | 16th(−62) |
| Jazz Janewattananond | 75th | 14th(−61) |
| Tony Finau | 9th | 64th(+55) |
| Matt Wallace | 56th | 3rd(−53) |
| Phil Mickelson | 20th | 71st(+51) |
| Shane Lowry | 59th | 8th(−51) |
| Rafa Cabrera Bello | 22nd | 71st(+49) |
| Jimmy Walker | 70th | 23rd(−47) |
| Sung Kang | 52nd | 7th(−45) |
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.
This event in the model
OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Bethpage State Park BK Course in Farmingdale, New York, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
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Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, 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.