How did LIV Golfers perform at PGA Championship 2023? Standings of all golfers explored
Sixteen LIV Golfers teed off last Thursday, starting the PGA Championship. Eventually, they were led by Brooks Koepka, who won the tournament with a superb performance. The leader of the Smash GC team finished with -9, two strokes ahead of Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland.
Koepka showcased admirable stability, which in the end was the key to being the leader after day 3. He closed his performance with a 3-under 67, reporting the sixth-best score of the round, but it was enough for him to extend his lead from the previous day.
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Throughout the tournament, Koepka had 18 birdies against only nine bogeys. His best rounds were the second and third with only one bogey in each.
Koepka thus earned his fifth lifetime major (2017-18 U.S. Open, and 2018-19 PGA Championship), as well as his ninth PGA Tour victory.
The rest of the LIV Golfers had mixed performances. The second best placed was Bryson DeChambeu, who also signed a good tournament at the PGA Championship, placing T4 with a final score of -3.
DeChambeau had the best first round of all players (-4) but could not repeat that performance. His second day was +1 and in rounds 2 and 3 he could only play for par.
Cameron Smith was another good performer, placing T9 with an excellent -1. Mito Pereira and Patrick Reed (both T18 with +2), had an acceptable performance in terms of what was expected for LIV Golfers.
LIV Golfers less fortunate at the PGA Championship
Harold Varner III was T29 with +5, a result that speaks loud and clear about how difficult Oak Hill Country Club's East Course proved to be. Another with a similar result was Thomas Pieters, T40 with +6.
Dean Burmester with +8 was in solo 54th place. Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, two of the brighter LIV Golf stars playing in Rochester, were even more disappointing, only managing +9 and +10, respectively, to go to T55 and T58 at the PGA Championship.
Sihwan Kim had to settle for T62, with a card of only +11. He was the worst placed of the LIV Golfers who made the cut.
But, not surprisingly, Kim was not the worst performer among the LIV Golfers. Even more disappointing were Anirban Lahiri, Martin Kaymer, Joaquin Niemann, Talor Gooch and Abraham Ancer, who did not even make the cut.