(Supplied by Tennis World USA)
Brooks Koepka was proclaimed champion of the PGA Championship this Sunday on the Oak Hill Nation Membership in Rochester, New York (USA). A sporting success that entails, financially, essentially the most succulent test for a complete quantity of 17.5 million {dollars} (16 euros), a rise of two.5 in comparison with final 12 months and the historic document of the match.
Brooks Koepka, prize
The American is awarded 3.1 million (2.9 euros) along with his first place, the very best pay {that a} main winner has acquired in all historical past, equaled with that of Matt Fitzpatrick on the US Open final 12 months. They aren’t unhealthy both, though it’s his most discreet pay of the season to date, the 37,625 (nearly 35,000 euros) that fatten Jon Rahm’s checking account along with his fiftieth place.
However maybe the one who leaves Oak Hill happiest, financially, primarily as a result of he isn’t used to receiving this sort of remuneration, is Michael Block, the very best this time among the many PGA professionals who compete within the match yearly.
Block, who was the one one in his class to make the reduce, and got here second on Friday, completed in a outstanding fifteenth place, which is able to deliver him $288,333 (266,000 euros). He performed golf at Florida State College in Tallahassee and, as an newbie, received three tournaments and was a three-time All-America.
He went on to qualify for the U.S. Open 2012, the place nonetheless he didn’t go the reduce. In the identical summer season he turned skilled, taking part within the Problem Tour. He received his first title on the Problem de Catalunya, whereas within the following season he received the Montecchia Open and triumphed on the Problem de España, the place he set the document rating of the competitors, 260 (-24) , profitable by as many as 10 strokes.
Three weeks later, with victory within the Scottish Problem, he earned an opportunity to contest the European Tour for the remainder of 2013 and into 2014. On this 12 months he received the Turkish Airways Open and completed third on the Dubai Desert Traditional and the Omega European Masters.
Ending eighth within the Race to Dubai standings, he was named “Rookie of the 12 months”. In 2015 additionally comes the primary title on the PGA Tour, the Phoenix Open. On the Open Championship he finishes tenth and on the PGA Championship he finishes fifth.
On the finish of the season he renounces to take part within the European Tour. On the U.S. Open 2017 wins his first Main, scoring a -16 and thus equaling Rory McIlroy’s 2011 match document. Within the following 12 months, regardless of an operation suffered on his wrist and the resultant withdrawal from the Masters, he manages to efficiently defend the title of the U.S.
Open (nobody had succeeded since Curtis Unusual in 1989) and received the third Main, the PGA Championship. Because of the victory of the CJ Cup he reaches the primary place of the world rating. In Might 2019 he triumphs once more on the PGA Championship, a end result that permits him to regain the primacy within the rating, which he then maintained for 38 consecutive weeks.
On this 12 months he additionally received his first competitors of the World Golf Championships, the FedEx St. Jude Invitational. For the second consecutive 12 months he was named “participant of the 12 months” by the PGA of America. Certified for the 2019 Presidents Cup, he was compelled to retire resulting from a knee harm which additionally impacts him within the 2020 season.
In February 2021 he returned to success on the Waste Administration Phoenix Open, the place on the final day he got here again 5 strokes behind with a rating of 65, 6 strokes beneath par. On Might 21, 2023, he received his third profession PGA Championship, turning into the fifth participant to win 5 Majors.