Brooks Koepka struggled on a long day at the Masters, beginning with the conclusion of a third-round postponed by weather and ending with a final-round collapse.
Brooks Koepka watches his tee shot on the eighth hole during the final round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday, April 9, 2023, in Augusta, Ga. – Brooks Koepka will no doubt hear the same murmured joke no matter where he goes in the coming days and weeks.If that was the case, Koepka would've been wearing a green jacket on, rather than making the dejected march from there to the locker room.
Picking up where they left off on the seventh hole, Rahm made birdie and Koepka made bogey, and that two-shot swing set the tone for the rest of the day. Koepka maintained his lead for the rest of the third round, but the birdie binge that he'd been on the first couple of days dried up and Rahm swept past him on the front nine of the final round.At one point, Koepka went 22 straight holes Sunday without a birdie, dropping from 13 under to start the day to 7 under.
“It was just be patient, probably, until about 13, and then we had to be a little more aggressive,” Koepka said. “It is what it is. I tried. I gave it my all. I can go to sleep at night.”
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