2017 PGA Championship

StatisticsPar71Length7,600 yards (6,949 m)^[1]Field156 players, 75 after cutCut147 (+5)Prize fund$10,500,000
€8,875,888Winner's share$1,890,000
€1,597,660Champion Justin Thomas276 (−8)Location map

The 2017 PGA Championship was the 99th PGA Championship, held August 10–13 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was the first major at Quail Hollow, which is a regular stop on the PGA Tour.

Early in the week of the tournament, it was announced that the championship will be held in May beginning in 2019.^[2][3]

Justin Thomas won his first career major title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, and Patrick Reed.^[4]

Media

In the United States, the Championship was televised by CBS, with weekday and early weekend coverage on TNT. It was televised live in the United Kingdom by the BBC who secured the rights over Sky Sports who had previously screened the event since 1992.^[5][6]

Course layout

Hole	Yards	Par		Hole	Yards	Par
1	524	4		10	592	5
2	452	4		11	462	4
3	483	4		12	456	4
4	184	3		13	208	3
5	449	4		14	344	4
6	249	3		15	577	5
7	546	5		16	506	4
8	346	4		17	223	3
9	505	4		18	494	4
Out	3,738	35		In	3,862	36
Source:[1]		Total			7,600	71

The course hosts the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour (2003–present), though not in 2017; in 2016, it played as a par-72 at 7,575 yards (6,927 m).^[7] It was also the home of the tour's Kemper Open (1969–1979) and the senior tour's PaineWebber World Seniors Invitational in the 1980s.

Under the direction of Tom Fazio, Quail Hollow underwent an aggressive 90-day renovation in 2016 that modified four holes and added Bermuda grass. It commenced during the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday, May 8.^[8][9] Thousands of trees were removed, as the former first two holes were combined into a new first hole, and the old fifth hole was divided between the new fourth and fifth holes.^[9][10]

Field

The following qualification criteria were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.^[11]

1. All former PGA Champions

• Martin Kaymer (3,6,9) did not play due to a shoulder injury.
• David Toms did not play.
• The following former champions did not enter: Paul Azinger, Mark Brooks, Jack Burke Jr., Steve Elkington, Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Hubert Green, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins, Tiger Woods

2. Last five Masters Champions

3. Last five U.S. Open Champions

4. Last five Open Champions

5. Current Senior PGA Champion

• Bernhard Langer did not play.

6. Top 15 and ties from the 2016 PGA Championship

7. 20 low scorers in the 2017 PGA Professional Championship

8. Top 70 leaders in official money standings from the 2016 RBC Canadian Open to the 2017 RBC Canadian Open

• Brandt Snedeker (8,9) did not play due to a rib injury.^[12]

9. Members of the United States and Europe 2016 Ryder Cup teams (provided they are ranked in the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking on July 30)

10. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2016 PGA Championship

11. Winner of the 2016 Olympic Golf Tournament

12. Special invitations

13. Players below 70th place in official money standings, to fill the field

• Jason Kokrak

Alternates (category 13)

1. Scott Brown (77th in standings; replaced David Toms)
2. Chez Reavie (79, took spot reserved for WGC-Bridgestone Invitational winner)
3. Scott Piercy (80, did not play)
4. Chris Kirk (81, replaced Brandt Snedeker)^[12]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Kevin Kisner and Thorbjørn Olesen were the co-leaders at 67 (−4), with five players one shot behind.^[13][14][15]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Kevin Kisner	67	−4
	Thorbjørn Olesen
T3	Brooks Koepka	68	−3
	Grayson Murray
	D. A. Points
	Chris Stroud
	Gary Woodland
T8	Bud Cauley	69	−2
	Paul Casey
	Tony Finau
	Rickie Fowler
	Brian Harman
	Jim Herman
	Patrick Reed

Second round

Friday, August 11, 2017
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Following a weather delay of nearly two hours in the late afternoon, play was suspended at 8:11 pm EDT due to darkness, with 25 players remaining on the course. On the leaderboard, only Chris Stroud was affected, two-under for his round with five holes remaining. Play resumed at 7:30 am on Saturday.^[16]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Kevin Kisner	67-67=134	−8
	Hideki Matsuyama	70-64=134
T3	Jason Day	70-66=136	−6
	Chris Stroud	68-68=136
T5	Francesco Molinari	73-64=137	−5
	Louis Oosthuizen	70-67=137
T7	Paul Casey	69-70=139	−3
	Rickie Fowler	69-70=139
	Justin Thomas	73-66=139
10	An Byeong-hun	71-69=140	−2

Third round

Saturday, August 12, 2017

With the second round completed on Saturday morning, the third round began at 9:50 am EDT in groups of three at ten-minute intervals, with the final group at 2:00 pm.^[17]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Kevin Kisner	67-67-72=206	−7
T2	Hideki Matsuyama	70-64-73=207	−6
	Chris Stroud	68-68-71=207
T4	Louis Oosthuizen	70-67-71=208	−5
	Justin Thomas	73-66-69=208
6	Grayson Murray	68-73-69=210	−3
T7	Scott Brown	73-68-70=211	−2
	Graham DeLaet	70-73-68=211
	Francesco Molinari	73-64-74=211
	Patrick Reed	69-73-69=211
	Gary Woodland	68-74-69=211

Source:^[18]

Final round

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Summary

Entering the final round with a one-stroke lead, Kevin Kisner failed to record a birdie on the front-nine and bogeyed the par-5 7th after hitting his approach into the water. Hideki Matsuyama birdied both 6 and 7 to tie Kisner. Justin Thomas began the round two back and tied for the lead with a 36-foot (11 m) birdie putt at the 9th. Chris Stroud also birdied the ninth to tie, while Francesco Molinari's run of four birdies in five holes on his back-nine meant that five players were atop the leaderboard at seven-under.^[19]

At the par-5 tenth, Thomas' putt for birdie paused on the lip of the cup for several seconds before falling in. He then chipped in at 13 for another birdie. At the par-3 17th, he hit his approach to 14 feet (4.3 m) and converted the birdie opportunity to get to nine-under. Matsuyama birdied the tenth to take solo possession of the lead, but made five bogeys to finish and fell to five-under. Kisner made his first birdie of the day at 10, but followed with two more bogeys. He managed to birdie both 14 and 15 before three-putting for bogey at the 16th. After a par at 17, Kisner needed to hole his approach from the fairway on the last to force a playoff, but found the water and made double bogey.

In the penultimate pairing and leading by three on the final tee, Thomas drove into a fairway bunker and then played conservatively. His third shot from the rough was to the right side of the green; he sank his short putt for bogey for 68 (−3) and 276 (−8).^[20] Patrick Reed had three birdies on the back to get to within a shot of the lead, but bogeyed the 18th after finding a fairway bunker off the tee and tied for second, two strokes behind Thomas.^[21] Molinari's chances were diminished when he also drove into a bunker at 16 and failed to get up-and-down. Louis Oosthuizen holed out from 34 yards on the par-5 15th for an eagle and birdied 18 to tie Reed and Molinari for second. With the finish Oosthuizen became the seventh golfer to finish runner-up in all four major championships.^[22] Stroud played the back-nine in six-over to fall to a tie for ninth.^[23]

Final leaderboard

Champion

Crystal Bowl winner (leading PGA Club Pro)

(c) = past champion

Note: Top 15 and ties qualify for the 2018 PGA Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2018 Masters Tournament

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Justin Thomas	73-66-69-68=276	−8	1,890,000
T2	Francesco Molinari	73-64-74-67=278	−6	784,000
	Louis Oosthuizen	70-67-71-70=278
	Patrick Reed	69-73-69-67=278
T5	Rickie Fowler	69-70-73-67=279	−5	388,500
	Hideki Matsuyama	70-64-73-72=279
T7	Graham DeLaet	70-73-68-69=280	−4	317,500
	Kevin Kisner	67-67-72-74=280
T9	Jason Day (c)	70-66-77-70=283	−1	250,000
	Matt Kuchar	71-74-70-68=283
	Jordan Smith	70-75-70-68=283
	Chris Stroud	68-68-71-76=283

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T13	Scott Brown	73-68-70-73=284	E	160,000
	Paul Casey	69-70-74-71=284
	James Hahn	73-70-71-70=284
	Brian Harman	69-75-71-69=284
	Dustin Johnson	70-74-73-67=284
	Brooks Koepka	68-73-74-69=284
	Marc Leishman	75-71-71-67=284
	Ryan Moore	71-71-73-69=284
	Henrik Stenson	74-70-70-70=284
T22	Rory McIlroy (c)	72-72-73-68=285	+1	89,166
	Grayson Murray	68-73-69-75=285
	Ian Poulter	74-71-71-69=285
	Chez Reavie	72-70-70-73=285
	Robert Streb	74-70-70-71=285
	Gary Woodland	68-74-69-74=285
T28	An Byeong-hun	71-69-74-72=286	+2	64,200
	J. B. Holmes	74-73-67-72=286
	Pat Perez	70-76-69-71=286
	Jordan Spieth	72-73-71-70=286
	Richard Sterne	73-72-70-71=286
T33	Keegan Bradley (c)	74-70-73-70=287	+3	47,000
	Patrick Cantlay	72-71-72-72=287
	Bud Cauley	69-74-74-70=287
	Kevin Chappell	72-75-69-71=287
	Bryson DeChambeau	73-71-72-71=287
	Lucas Glover	75-70-72-70=287
	Jason Kokrak	75-70-72-70=287
	Jamie Lovemark	74-71-72-70=287
	Sean O'Hair	71-75-70-71=287
	Webb Simpson	76-70-72-69=287
	Chris Wood	72-72-70-73=287
T44	Tony Finau	69-74-71-74=288	+4	32,125
	Jim Herman	69-75-72-72=288
	Kang Sung-hoon	70-71-71-76=288
	Thorbjørn Olesen	67-78-71-72=288
T48	Charley Hoffman	75-71-73-70=289	+5	25,900
	Billy Horschel	76-70-69-74=289
	Zach Johnson	71-73-71-74=289
	Satoshi Kodaira	71-76-67-75=289
	Shane Lowry	74-69-74-72=289
	Charl Schwartzel	74-70-72-73=289
T54	Ryan Fox	75-66-71-78=290	+6	22,875
	Bill Haas	75-69-73-73=290
	D. A. Points	68-73-74-75=290
	Steve Stricker	75-70-72-73=290
T58	Jason Dufner (c)	74-72-72-73=291	+7	21,800
	Kelly Kraft	73-73-71-74=291
	Jon Rahm	70-75-71-75=291
T61	Tommy Fleetwood	70-75-73-74=292	+8	21,300
	Adam Scott	71-76-74-71=292
T63	Dylan Frittelli	73-71-77-72=293	+9	20,800
	Cody Gribble	72-75-74-72=293
	David Lingmerth	72-73-71-77=293
66	Vijay Singh (c)	75-70-79-70=294	+10	20,400
T67	Kim Kyung-tae	73-72-75-75=295	+11	19,900
	Alex Norén	74-69-75-77=295
	Hideto Tanihara	71-75-74-75=295
	Lee Westwood	73-72-75-75=295
T71	Russell Henley	75-71-77-73=296	+11	19,450
	Daniel Summerhays	76-67-77-76=296
T73	Charles Howell III	78-69-78-72=297	+12	19,250
	Omar Uresti	74-70-80-73=297
75	Anirban Lahiri	72-73-76-78=299	+15	19,100
CUT	Ross Fisher	75-73=148	+6
	Scott Hend	72-76=148
	Li Haotong	73-75=148
	Kevin Na	79-69=148
	Justin Rose	76-72=148
	Peter Uihlein	74-74=148
	Wang Jeung-hun	73-75=148
	Bernd Wiesberger	73-75=148
	Daniel Berger	73-76=149	+7
	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	74-75=149
	Luke Donald	76-73=149
	Tyrrell Hatton	77-72=149
	Martin Laird	77-72=149
	Alexander Lévy	75-74=149
	Luke List	75-74=149
	Joost Luiten	76-73=149
	Graeme McDowell	73-76=149
	Hudson Swafford	77-72=149
	Bubba Watson	77-72=149
	Nicolas Colsaerts	75-75=150	+8
	Ernie Els	80-70=150
	Matt Fitzpatrick	76-74=150
	Sergio García	75-75=150
	Mackenzie Hughes	78-72=150
	Russell Knox	77-73=150
	William McGirt	77-73=150
	Shaun Micheel (c)	73-77=150
	Brendan Steele	74-76=150
	Jhonattan Vegas	78-72=150
	Jimmy Walker (c)	81-69=150
	Jonas Blixt	74-77=151	+9
	Branden Grace	77-74=151
	Pádraig Harrington (c)	79-72=151
	Yuta Ikeda	72-79=151
	Søren Kjeldsen	73-78=151
	Pablo Larrazábal	77-74=151
	Wesley Bryan	74-78=152	+10
	Jim Furyk	76-76=152
	Emiliano Grillo	78-74=152
	Kyle Stanley	76-76=152
	Andy Sullivan	78-74=152
	Danny Willett	73-79=152
	Rich Berberian Jr.	79-74=153	+11
	John Daly (c)	74-79=153
	Greg Gregory	77-76=153
	Thongchai Jaidee	80-73=153
	Davis Love III (c)	78-75=153
	Phil Mickelson (c)	79-74=153
	Fabrizio Zanotti	80-73=153
	Rich Beem (c)	82-72=154	+12
	Matt Dobyns	76-78=154
	Jaysen Hansen	84-70=154
	Danny Lee	76-78=154
	Adam Hadwin	79-76=155	+13
	Kenny Pigman	76-79=155
	Xander Schauffele	74-81=155
	Yang Yong-eun (c)	76-79=155
	Thomas Bjørn	79-77=156	+14
	Chris Kirk	80-76=156
	Dave McNabb	78-78=156
	Rod Pampling	77-79=156
	Thomas Pieters	79-77=156
	Patrick Rodgers	79-77=156
	J. J. Wood	78-78=156
Jamie Broce	79-78=157	+15
Scott Hebert	83-74=157
Cameron Smith	75-82=157
Song Young-han	80-77=157
Alex Beach	79-80=159	+17
Chris Moody	81-78=159
Adam Rainaud	81-78=159
Mike Small	80-79=159
Brandon Stone	79-80=159
Ryan Vermeer	82-79=161	+19
Rod Perry	82-81=163	+21
Paul Claxton	82-83=165	+23
Stuart Deane	84-81=165
David Muttitt	84-83=167	+25
WD	Brian Smock	77	+6
	Andrew Johnston	78	+7
	Kim Si-woo	79	+8

Source:^[18]

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	4
Thomas	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−8
Molinari	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−4	−5	−5	−6	−7	−6	−6	−6
Oosthuizen	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−6	−5	−5	−6
Reed	−2	−1	−2	−3	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−6
Fowler	−1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5
Matsuyama	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−7	−6	−5	−6	−7	−6	−6	−5
DeLaet	−2	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4
Kisner	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−5	−5	−6	−7	−6	−6	−4
Stroud	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−3	−2	−1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[18]

References

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site