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PGA TOUR: Ranking the 25 most dominant performances of 2018

By Bill Felber

POTOMAC, MD - JULY 01: Francesco Molinari of Italy hits off the ninth tee during the final round of the Quicken Loans National at TPC Potomac on July 1, 2018 in Potomac, Maryland. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
POTOMAC, MD - JULY 01: Francesco Molinari of Italy hits off the ninth tee during the final round of the Quicken Loans National at TPC Potomac on July 1, 2018 in Potomac, Maryland. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) /
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Bryson DeChambeau Ryder Cup
Bryson DeChambeau of the United States celebrates with the winner’s trophy after the final round of The Northern Trust on August 26, 2018 at the Ridgewood Championship Course in Ridgewood, New Jersey. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /

No. 15: Bryson deChambeau, Northern Trust, -2.72

No. 14: Patton Kizzire, Mayakoba, -2.74

No. 12 (tie): Brooks Koepka, Colonial, -2.76

No. 12 (tie): Koepka, PGA Championship, -2.76

No. 11: Webb Simpson, Players, -2.78

Bryson DeChambeau opened the Tour Championship Series by dominating the Northern Trust. His Saturday 63 blew open the tournament and he finished four strokes ahead of Tony Finau in the first of his back-to-back wins. His 266 beat the four-round field average by 13 strokes.

Kizzire opened with a 62 and held off Fowler in a sensational sprint to the finish. He was 13 strokes better than the field average.

Koepka was a multi-event winner, including famously his second consecutive U.S. Open. But his two most dominant performances occurred at Colonial and Bellerive. Even so, his 263 in the Fort Worth Invitational was only good for a runner-up finish to Justin Rose. At the PGA Championship, Koepka beat Tiger Woods by two strokes and his 264 was nearly a dozen strokes better than the field average.

With a field standard deviation of 3.79, the Players featured the second most compacted field on tour, trailing only the Houston Open field. That competitiveness made Simpson’s 270, four strokes better than the runners-up and 15.5 strokes better than the field average, stand out.

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