"You could hit it far and the fairways were generous enough where you could still miss it and hit the fairway", he said. "That was a big plus for me". On Sunday, my game wasn't quite there, but I still got it round in level par.
Xander Schauffele, a rookie on the PGA Tour playing in his first U.S. Open, birdied his last hole for a 69 to tie for fifth at 10-under 268 along with Bill Haas (69) and Rickie Fowler (72), who was in contention at yet another major only to fall back.
"I was trying to get it as low as I could, it was something I thought was important just to stay focused and keep the pedal down".
Koepka pulled away on the back nine on Sunday, making three straight birdies from holes 14 to 16. If you can play the ball on the ground, negotiate the elements, and be able to chuckle at the golf gods' menace, you might one day drink from the Claret Jug. "He was phenomenal - I would've like to have played like that".
He had a four-shot lead with two holes to play.
He made par and finished at 16-under 272, matching the record to par by Rory McIlroy, who shot 16-under 268 at Congressional in 2011.
"There was a low point the night before I won my final Challenge Tour event to get to my full European Tour card when I called Blake Smith, my manager, and I told him I didn't want to play".
"That's probably the most emotion I've ever shown", Koepka said afterward.
Woods won 14 majors in 46 starts from the 1997 Masters to the 2008 U.S. Open, an nearly other-worldly record in a sport where a 10 percent winning record is considered outstanding.
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In January, he joined an elite group of only eight other golfers to record a sub-60 round - he shot a 13-under 59 at the CareerBuilder Challenge in La Quinta, Calif. - and in March, he notched his first-ever PGA victory, placing first at the Valspar Championship in Florida. "He went and won the golf tournament on the back nine", Harman said. The 20-year-old closed with a birdie and finished at 1-under 287, one shot better than amateur Cameron Champ.
"I kept telling people past year after the Ryder Cup", Brandt Snedeker said, "when Brooks figures out how good he is, he's going to be a world beater".
He did it. Now, his journey includes a victory in Wisconsin - in the U.S. Open, no less.
And so now they all move on to Royal Birkdale for The Open Championship. He followed that up with birdies on the next three holes.
But about an hour after his final putt, as the size of his accomplishment sank in and everything it meant began to dig into Koepka, he conducted a remarkable long mass interview in which he opened up so much, was so frank and interesting, that the Man of No Emotion who won the U.S. Open was replaced by a vastly more interesting person - that is to say, the real Koepka.
Indeed, he will. Having made only one cut in his seven majors before the 117th US Open, Fleetwood announced himself to the world at large, never mind just Merseyside. "It was just one of those days".
"And I felt confident all week, so to feel as confident as I did on a Sunday of a major and coming down the stretch was pretty neat". "I started missing some left and tried to correct it and missed a couple right".
Pick up a golf club -- and in the case of Brooks Koepka go on to become one of the select few players to have won a major.
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