Winner: Brooks Koepka
Around the wider world of golf: Na Yeon Choi won the Coates Golf Championship on the LPGA (and Lydia Ko became the youngest #1, male or female, ever); Rory McIlroy won the Omega Dubai Desert Classic on the ET; and Mathew Goggin won the Panama Claro Championship on the Web.com Tour.
And in case you ignored it, the New England Patriots received the Super Bowl. Keegan Bradley's in all likelihood STILL celebrating.
It was all set up to be Martin Laird's event.
Or Hideki Matsuyama's. Or Bubba Watson's. Or Ryan Palmer's. Or Zach Johnson's. Heck, even Freddie Jacobson and Jordan Spieth made realistic runs at the lead.
But in the end Brooks Koepka confirmed why such a lot of human beings suppose he's one of those "next huge element" men in American golfing. Only four gamers shot better scores than his bogey-loose 5-under sixty six, and his fifty one-foot eagle putt on the par-five fifteenth pretty an awful lot sucked the air out of anybody else's balloons. And the power he gutted down that tight fairway on 18 popped any that refused to deflate willingly.
Brooks has 6 seasoned wins now -- 4 at the European Challenge Tour (for US enthusiasts, it's form of like a Euro Web.Com), 1 at the ET, and 1 on the PGA Tour. The ET win, the Turkish Airlines Open, is a Race to Dubai match it truly is a Who's Who of European golfing, and now he is crushed a few severe class at Phoenix. With his Tour card now locked up for multiple years and a valid ET card as nicely -- further to being properly inside the Top50 in the international, which receives him in all the majors and WGCs -- we may want to see Brooks run up a nice record within the close to future.
In fact, I think you have to consider him a very real contender at Augusta. Rory, Rickie, Bubba & Co. better keep an eye on their rearview mirrors -- Brooks may be even closer than he appears!
In the meantime, Brooks gets his first-ever Limerick Summary (Christina Kim got it the week Brooks won), and I doubt that it will be his last:
This U.S. win took time for Koepka
But fans gazed in shock as he leapt the
Few players between
Him and vict’ry. I mean,
The one thought in their heads was: “What kept ya?” The photo came from the tournament upshot page at PGATOUR.com.
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