In beating Johnson by two strokes, Koekpa scored a second straight triumph in the PGA Championship and became the first golfer in history to hold back-to-back titles in two majors at the same time.
“I think I kind of deserved it,” Koepka would later say good-naturedly. “You’re going to rattle off four in a row and it looks like you’re going to lose it ... I’ve been to sporting events in New York. I know how it goes.”
Koepka recovered with strong drives to make pars at 15 and 16, suffered a bogey at 17 – as did Johnson – and saved an impressive par from the deep rough at 18 to continue an unprecedented march in golf’s biggest events “That was the most excited I’ve ever been in my life there on 18,” Koepka said of the rare emotional display of pumping his fist and sharing a long hug with his caddie, Ricky Elliott.
But Johnson, who now has three fewer major wins than Koepka despite 14 more regular tour titles, ultimately let them down. He overshot the 16th green from the middle of the fairway and went long again from the 17th tee. “It was definitely a test. I never thought about failing,” Koepka said. “I was trying my butt off. If I would have bogeyed all the way in, I still would have looked at it as I tried my hardest. That's all I can do.
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