The gap between Mr Koepka's merely-strong work on the weekly grind and his otherworldly performances in majors remains an anomaly
“SOMETIMES THE majors are the easiest ones to win,” Brooks Koepka said last week. “Half the people shoot themselves out of it, and mentally I know I can beat most of them.” It sounded like a preposterous boast. The four major championships in men’s golf feature virtually all of the world’s best players, making them vastly harder to win than weekly tour events against comparatively soft competition are. But five days later, Mr Koepka proved himself right.
Mr Koepka never re-discovered his early-round magic after that point. He gave back another stroke with a bogey on the 17th hole, and flirted with disaster on the 18th by propelling his final tee shot into the gallery. But Mr Johnson could not sustain his momentum, over-shooting the green on the 16th hole and missing a seven-foot putt on the 17th to record back-to-back bogeys of his own.
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