FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – The wind blew, bringing the acclaim to the ears of Brooks Koepka. Strangely, they were not for him.

He had led the PGA Championship all week, set a course record in the first round and a record for the biggest 36-hole lead and entered the final round with a seven-run lead. Nobody had ever participated in a final phase of the history of the PGA Tour with such a lead and had not won.

On Sunday afternoon, the wind began to blow, the fairways began to look like bike paths and Koepka's advance was reduced dangerously, and the New Yorkers lined up to sing his friend's initials. and principal prosecutor, Dustin Johnson.

Koepka admitted that he had been "shocked" by his situation. He knew at that time that he was going to do the story, that he was winning or that he was losing, and that the biggest fans in the world, as blunt as possible, would like the see becoming a typing line.

"It's New York," said Koepka. "What do you expect when you half smother?"

He smiled but did not joke. "I think I deserved it a bit," he said. "You will fight four times in a row and it seems that you will lose it. I went to sporting events in New York. I know how it goes.

"I think it helped. It was at a perfect time because I was just thinking, agreeing, agreeing. I have everyone against me. Let's go. "

Koepka confessed that he would invent a legend when he could not find one, that he was playing better with "a token on my shoulder". He might have more difficulty finding insults in which to marinate after proving that he was strong enough to win when a whole golf course, seems to have turned against him.

Koepka survived a series of four bogeys last Sunday to win the PGA Championship with two shots on Johnson and six on the rest of the field.

He is the first player in the history of men's golf to win four major tournaments in less than two years. He is the first to win the PGA lead since 1983. He joins Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as players who have won four major tournaments in eight starts. He joins Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros and Woods to win two major tournaments several times before the age of 30.

He is currently the only player under 30 to have won four major tournaments. He is the first man in history to be the two-time defending champion of two different major tournaments.

He climbed to the top of the world rankings and if he wins the American Open at Pebble Beach, he will compete in the Minnesota 3M Open as the most dominant player in golf since Woods reached his peak. .

Koepka is introduced to casual golf enthusiasts by winning three of four possible points at the 2016 Ryder Cup in Hazeltine. By the time he reaches Blaine this summer, he may well be building one of the greatest careers in the history of golf.

"Phenomenal," he says. "I think it's a good word, yeah, it's a crazy race, it was funny.I'm trying not to let it stop." It's super nice , and just try to take advantage of this momentum for Pebble, I think it's – I mean, four out of eight, I like the way it sounds. "

Bethpage Black could not let Koepka go without some bruises. He had a birdie on the 10th hole, but played the back nine in 39, allowing Johnson to reduce the lead in two. Koepka hit the pilot above the 18th start – a logical game because the bunkers discourage the set up – and landed in the rough.

He hacked the ball on the fairway, hit a lob wedge at a height of 8 feet and took his foot, pulling his fist like a Tiger of the last days.

Koepka took the heat of action for his occasional combativeness, his lack of charisma, but he spent the week playing dominant golf and giving candid answers. If New Yorkers do not like it, they will miss the best golf history.

"It's a pretty crazy day," said Harold Varner III, who played 81 against Koepka. "I thought it was pretty odd to see how they told Brooks to choke it. It's not my cup of tea. I was shooting for him after that. I have a few words of choice for that. "

Koepka said the jokes had helped him. There are words of choice for that: difficult. Historical. And champion.