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Brooks Koepka has many reasons to be laid back before the last round of the PGA Championship. (Andres Kudacki / Associated Press)
Cindy Boren
Reporter covering sports, with a focus on politics and national stories
Brooks Koepka woke up on Sunday morning with a considerable lead in the PGA Championship, a win won last year, and it seemed like only an epic collapse of Greg Normanesque or an almost impossible race. another golfer could prevent him from winning a major for the fourth time. time.
But with the wind prevailing on the Black Course of Bethpage State Park on Long Island with gusts up to 20 miles per hour, just as Koepka and the golfers chasing him deviate in the early afternoon. Koepka opened exactly as he would not have preferred: a bogey at the first hole. His gaming partner, Harold Varner III, found the fairway and managed a birdie that got the better of Koepka. And just like that, Koepka only had five goals in front, with Varner alone in second place.
Right from the start, a fan tried to snap Koepka, mumble"Little wind, Brooksie.
On the eve of the final round, Koepka had no doubt about whether he could win.
"No," replied two letters after his performance tied for Saturday's 70, while Koepka continued to display the kind of unconditional confidence that Tiger Woods had shown at his peak.
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How is this done for historical domination? With a win, he would become the first golfer to simultaneously hold two consecutive titles in two major (the American Open is the other, which he won in 2017 and 2018). His seven-shot lead was the biggest for a player in a major discipline since Rory McIlroy led the 2011 US Open by eight.
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It is therefore difficult to blame him for having a serene sense of destiny. No leader after 54 holes lost an advance of seven or more strokes before the last lap. "He's doing what he said he'd do," said Xander Schauffle to the press. "He talked s — in the media room and he supported every word."
Could Koepka derail something? Certainly not a trophy curse, judging by the Instagram account of his girlfriend, actress / model Jena Sims.
Mickelson's thumbs are doing very well. Really.
Phil Mickelson finished at the end of the match, but took pleasure in giving thanks to all of Phil's fans. He joked so much that he joked Saturday about "thumb activation" in a hilarious social media publication and cracked it again on Sunday, claiming he broke the day's record in Bethpage with his gestures addressed to the fans. "If the putts fall, thumbs up," he snapped. There was no such luck on Sunday.
"My game had a hard time because of that," he told TNT.
Really?
Nah.
"I'm kidding," he told TNT. "That's not why I struggled."
Here's how to watch (every hour of the East)
Online: 11h-19h on PGA.com
TV: 11h to 14h on TNT; 2-7 on CBS, CBSSports.com, sports application CBS
Departure times:
7:35 pm – David Lipsky, Rich Beem
7:45 – Max Homa, Joos Luiten
7:55 pm – Corey Conners, Marty Jertson
8:05 am – Kevin Tway, Kurt Kitayama
8:15 am – Ross Fisher, Andrew Putnam
8:25 – Rafa Cabrera Bello, Beau Hossler
8:35 am – Pat Perez, Rob Labritz
8:45 am – Charley Hoffman, Henrik Stenson
8:55 am – Justin Harding, Cameron Smith
9:05 am – Matt Fitzpatrick, Lucas Herbert
9:15 am – Paul Casey, Phil Mickelson
9:25 – Cameron Champ, Alex Noren
9:35 am – Graeme McDowell, Ryan Vermeer
9:45 – J.T. Poston, Thomas Pieters
9:55 am – Kelly Kraft, Daniel Berger
10:05 – Brandt Snedeker, Mike Lorenzo-Vera
10:15 am – Thorbjorn Olesen, Jason Kokrak
10:35 – Bronson Burgoon, J.J. Spaun
10:45 – Gary Woodland, Keegan Bradley
10.55 – Francesco Molinari, Zach Johnson
11:05 – Billy Horschel, Webb Simpson
11.15am – Emiliano Grillo, Joel Dahmen
11:25 am – Matt Kuchar, Charles Howell III
11:35 am – Aaron Wise, Tyrell Hatton
11:45 – Haotong Li, Adam Hadwin
11:55 – Rory McIlroy, Tony Finau
12:05 pm – Abraham Ancer, Jason Day
12.15 – Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Adam Long
12:25 – Louis Oosthuizen, Shane Lowry
12:35 pm – Jimmy Walker, Scott Piercy
12:45 pm – Justin Rose, Sam Burns
12:55 pm – At Reavie, Tommy Fleetwood
13:05 – Lucas Glover, Lucas Bjerregaard
1:25 pm – Danny Lee, Danny Willett
1:35 pm – Sung Kang, Rickie Fowler
1:45 pm – Jordan Spieth, Erik van Rooyen
13:55 – Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott
14:05 – Matt Wallace, Xander Schauffele
2:15 pm – Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama
2:25 pm – Jazz Janewattananond, Luke List
2:35 pm – Brooks Koepka, Harold Varner III
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