Brooks Koepka beat up on brawny Bethpage Black for a record-setting start to his title defence in the PGA Championship. With a 40-foot birdie to start his round and a birdie putt from just inside 35 feet at the end, he shot a 7-under 63 to break the course record.
Brooks Koepka reacts after sinking a putt on the ninth green to finish the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament, Thursday, May 16, 2019, at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Three majors in two years, and Brooks Koepka can still feel as though he has something to prove.Koepka beat up on brawny Bethpage Black for a record-setting start to his title defence in the PGA Championship.
It was only one round, but enough to make the Masters that Woods won last month feel more nostalgic than a sign of more to come. "I wasn't surprised," Lee said. "I mean, have you seen him playing U.S. Opens and PGA Championships in the last three years?" "The course is not easy, but Brooks obviously made it look real easy," Perez said. "I saw that on Tuesday when I played with him. I actually congratulated him on his win."
"What makes you think he's going to be leading?" Fowler said. "I would say there's no lead really safe here." He is the ninth player to open a major with 63, and only two of them went on to win -- Jack Nicklaus at Baltusrol in the 1980 U.S. Open and Raymond Floyd at Southern Hills in the 1982 PGA Championship.
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