Winner: Brooks Koepka
Around the wider world of golf: So Yeon Ryu won the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give; Isi Gabsa won in a playoff at the Forsyth Classic on the Symetra Tour; George Cunningham won the GolfBC Championship on the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada; and Motin Yeung won in a playoff at the Kunming Championship on the PGA TOUR China.
Sure, the USGA probable overreacted a bit with their setup on Sunday at the US Open. But they did not make it too soft, as the lack of low scores proved. Of the sixty seven players to make the cut, Sunday?S admittedly smooth setup produced only 15 ratings below par, best 4 better than -2.
Clearly, the USGA needs to research what "let 'em play" way. It shouldn't take an blunders like Saturday's to give us a usable setup.
While Tommy Fleetwood controlled to grow to be most effective the 6th US Open participant to post a sixty three ? At the forty fifth anniversary of Johnny Miller's, no much less ? And a handful of gamers like Patrick Reed stored matters interesting, it became Brooks Koepka's constant play that stole the display. In a traditional exhibition of hanging difficult, his -2 round of 68 was all it took to grow to be the first guy in 29 years to win returned-to-back US Opens.
It become shocking to see the ones we predicted to contend, like DJ, Rose and Stenson, deserted by using their putters. Of the challengers, most effective Fleetwood simply made excellent at the promise he's proven over the past couple of seasons.
But even a historic rating wasn't sufficient to stop the defending champion. When I published my "5-to-Watch" post earlier this week, I wrote:
Defending champ Brooks Koepka has never played Shinnecock, but his excellent play at Erin Hills last year proves he can hold his own on a fairly wide course, which the new Shinnecock is. Having recovered from his wrist injury, he looks to be back in the kind of form he was at last year's event, He's not getting a lot of attention this week, but I think he has to be taken seriously.And according to GC, that lack of attention indeed drove him to hang in there when he dropped to +7 early in Friday's play. Having won two majors before his 30th birthday, he won't be underestimated going forward. I know I won't.
In the period in-between, Brooks can drink a toast from the Cup whilst he reads his latest Limerick Summary. I suspect he will be including pretty some greater before he is achieved!
Back-to-lower back isn?T what we predicted?
Back-to-returned, as the sector was dissected
So methodically! Brooks
Drained a few birdie looks;
Now his two major wins are connected! The photo came from this page at europeantour.com.
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