Koepka extended his domination at Bethpage Black, taking a seven-shot lead into Sunday’s final round.
By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow May 18 at 9:35 PM FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Golf, that eccentric sport with the rich history and the poor success rate, prepared Saturday night for what looks like a Sunday of little suspense.
To recap, Koepka emerged from the thick ranks of the skillful and semi-anonymous at the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin, where he won by four after starting Sunday trailing by one upon a populous leader board. Those who didn’t know him figured that might be it for him. Four majors after that, he won the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, where he woke up on the final day tied for the lead before the kind of closing 68 Shinnecock seldom permits.
Textbook evidence came Saturday at the par-5 No. 13, where Koepka drove the ball way off to the right, seemingly near various sets of squirrel families. He knew something like that was going to happen; he did not have a hard time letting it go. From the woods, 315 yards from the hole, he found a little lane to send one 197 yards but into the snarling primary rough.
“The first thing that comes to mind is I think it’s great for golf,” Varner said. “If you don’t go to sleep and think, ‘Man, this makes me want to work harder, if I can be that good,’ then I don’t know why you’re playing. I don’t know. You can’t sit there and just weep and be like, ‘He’s so much better.’ I think that’s going to push you. It almost pisses me off. That’s what I think.”
“He’s a good golfer, isn’t he?” said Matt Wallace, the Englishman standing in sixth at 4 under. “That’s pretty much plain and simple. When you’ve got the ball under control like he does and he’s putting great and chipping and putting and everything’s perfect, that kind of happens. Tiger [Woods] did it. I remember [Colin Montgomerie] saying nobody was ever going to catch Tiger at the [1997] Masters that he won, and this is pretty much the same.
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