The closest comparison to Koepka in this category is Andy North, who has the distinction of being a two-time US Open champ despite having won only one other time on the PGA Tour.
If Koepka cruises to a second PGA Championship and fourth Major title, he’ll join a distinguished group of players who killed all suspense at a golf Major, simply through the sin of proficiency.
Professional golfers should be sent not just on physical and linear journeys every day, but on emotional odysseys that test the limits of their sanity.
It’s not unheard of for a player to skip a World Golf Championship event. But Adam Scott currently is entertaining the notion that he might not play in any of the three remaining WGC events this season.
In an interview with Australian Golf Digest’s PGA Tour editor Evin Priest, Adam Scott grades his 2018 season, talks through his plans for 2019 and details why he is skipping the Australian summer of golf this year.
Australian Golf Digest will be on the ground at Shinnecock Hills in New York for the US Open. To get you up to speed, here is a guide to the year’s second major. First round tee times, Aussies Thursday AEST 8:56pm – Trey Mullinax, Gardendale, Ala.; (a) Matt Parziale, Brockton, Mass.; Jason Scrivener, Australia 9:07pm – Read more…
All is not lost for Scott. There is another cutoff for players inside the top 60 in the world after the FedEx St Jude Classic (June 11), just as US Open week begins.
Australian Golf Digest
