Niemann registered a one-over 71 in the final round of the PGA Championship to finished tied for 18th.
Analysis:
Niemann made his move Saturday with a four-under 66 score and opened the final round with back-to-back birdies. However, he proceeded to go two-over across the final 16 holes, and his bogey at the par-3 17th was particularly brutal, as it knocked Niemann out of the top-15 of the leaderboard, thus not earning him an automatic exemption to the 2027 PGA Championship. He led the field at Aronimink in GIR and finished second in SG: Off-the-Tee, T9 in driving accuracy and 10th in SG: Approach, though he was ultimately sunk by his performance on and around the green, finishing 68th and 69th in SG: Putting and Around-the-Green, respectively. Niemann hasn't been as dominant in LIV Golf this season as he was in both 2024 and 2025, finishing as the season-long runner-up behind Jon Rahm in both years. Luckily for Niemann, his play in 2025 was enough for him to earn a spot at this year's U.S. Open Championship. He'll use LIV Golf Korea and LIV Golf Andalucia as his tune-up events before teeing off at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on June 18.
