The purse at this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge is nothing to sneeze at. The field was playing for $US7.3 million with winner Kevin Na earning $1,314,000. But there was something else on the line at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth that caught the interest of many watching the historic PGA Tour event.
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 Dustin Johnson showed up for his pre-Masters press conference on Tuesday afternoon and announced he’d had enough of the golf grind and was retiring at age 34, he could walk off into the Augusta sunset knowing his next metaphorical stop would be the World Golf Hall of Fame.
This year has seen no shortage of bizarre rules snafus since the USGA and R&A rolled out the new Rules of Golf on January 1. Sunday at the Players Championship was no exception.
Although this is just the fifth albatross in Players Championship history, it’s the third consecutive year in which the feat has been accomplished at the PGA Tour’s flagship event.