2019 PGA Championship (The 30th of 46 events in the PGA TOUR season)

Farmingdale, New York May 13-19, 2019 Purse: $11,000,000 ($1,980,000 to the winner) Black Course Par/Yards: 35-35—70/7,459

Third-Round Notes – Saturday, May 18, 2019

Weather: Mostly Sunny. High of 71. Wind NNW 5-10 mph.

Third-Round Leaderboard 63-65-70—198 (-12) Harold Varner III 71-67-67—205 (-5) 70-68-67—205 (-5) 68-68-69—205 (-5) 69-67-69—205 (-5)

Things to Know • Defending champion Brooks Koepka holds largest 54-hole lead in PGA Championship history • Koepka leads/co-leads for the 12th time in last 34 rounds at a major; no player has led more than 6 in that time • Luke List and Dustin Johnson are the only two players in the field with three rounds in the 60s • Playing in final group with Koepka, (T8) posts first over-par score of the week (2-over 72) • Harold Varner III and ’s Jazz Janewattananond card 67s, low rounds of the day • Varner has 4 bogeys over 54 holes, the fewest of any player in the field

Third-Round Lead Notes • 15 third-round leaders/co-leaders have gone on to win this season, most recently last week’s winner Sung Kang • Since 2000, 12 third-round leaders/co-leaders have gone on to win the PGA Championship: /2000, /2001, /2003, /2004, /2005, Tiger Woods/2006, Tiger Woods/2007, Rory McIlroy/2012, Rory McIlroy/2014, /2015, /2016 and Brooks Koepka/2018 • Four wire-to-wire winners at the PGA Championship (no ties): (1964), (1971), (1982) and (1983) • The last player to win a major wire-to-wire was Jordan Spieth (2015 ) • Largest 54-hole lead at the PGA Championship o 7 – Brooks Koepka (2019/TBD) o 5 – Raymond Floyd (1969/Won and 1982/Won), Tom Watson (1978/T2)

Largest 54-hole leads in major championships Tournament Leader Shot Lead Event Finish 1934 Cotton, Henry 10 Won 2000 U.S. Open Woods, Tiger 10 Won 1997 Masters Tournament Woods, Tiger 9 Won 2011 U.S. Open McIlroy, Rory 8 Won 1976 Masters Tournament Floyd, Raymond 8 Won 2019 PGA Championship Koepka, Brooks 7 TBD 1980 Masters Tournament Ballesteros, Seve 7 Won 1964 The Open Championship Lema, Tony 7 Won

Brooks Koepka Age: 29 (May 3, 1990) Entering the Week #5 FedExCup #3 Official World Golf Ranking 115 PGA TOUR starts 5 PGA TOUR wins 3 Major wins (2017 U.S. Open, 2018 U.S. Open, 2018 PGA Championship) 11 PGA TOUR starts in 2018-19 1 Wins in 2018-19 (2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES) 4 PGA TOUR top-10s in 2018-19 6 PGA Championship starts

• Ends streak of consecutive rounds in the 60s at the PGA Championship (7) • Ends streak of 11 consecutive under-par round in majors (dating to R4 of the ) • Holds at least share of lead for 12th time in last 34 rounds at major (including four rounds missed at 2018 Masters); no player has led more than six times in that time span (Jordan Spieth and ) • Marks sixth third-round lead or co-lead on the PGA TOUR; went on to win on last three occasions: 2018 U.S. Open, 2018 PGA Championship, 2018 CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. • Posts back-to-back bogeys (Nos. 9-10) on TOUR for the first time since in March • Making seventh start in PGA Championship; In addition to win in 2018, has two top-fives (2016/T4; 2015/T5) and has finished outside the top 15 just once (T70/2013) • Holds share of 18-hole scoring record (63), owns the 36-hole record (128) and 72-hole record (264) at the PGA • Leads field with 17 birdies • Leads the field in the following statistical categories: Strokes Gained: Total (19.063), Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (17.299), Strokes Gained: Approach the Green (11.159), Proximity to the Green (26’1”), Scrambling (9 of 11) • Has gained strokes on the field in 21 rounds at the PGA Championship, the most of any player since 2014

With a victory • Would win fourth major in last eight major championship starts (missed 2018 Masters) • Would become the 29th player to win four or more majors and the first to reach that mark since Rory McIlroy at the 2014 PGA Championship • Would become the seventh different player (Tiger Woods twice) to successfully defend the PGA Championship and first player to successfully defend PGA title since Woods in 2007 • Would become the first player to successfully defend both the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open in a career • Would become the seventh player to win multiple titles at both the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open (Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, , Tiger Woods) • Would become fifth player to win the PGA Championship in wire-to-wire fashion • Would reclaim the No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking, last held in January 2019

Additional Player Notes • Dustin Johnson bogeys final hole of the day to miss out on Sunday’s final pairing • Jazz Janewattananond (JANNA -watta- NON-nond) plays the weekend for first time in second major start • Harold Varner III posts the only bogey-free round of the day; has just one bogey in last 36 holes • Luke List is making his ninth start in a major; this marks the third time he’s played the weekend in a major

Miscellaneous Notes Bogey-free rounds: R1: Brooks Koepka (63) R2: (66) R3: Harold Varner III (67)

Scoring Averages: Front (35) Back (35) Total (70) Cumulative R1: 36.276 36.788 73.064 --- R2: 35.368 36.227 71.645 72.355 R3: 35.780 36.573 72.354 72.354