US PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka’s fifth major title gives LIV Golf landmark win – but some boo him
- ‘I hear it all,’ Koepka says after being booed at the 18th amid ongoing acrimony between PGA and Saudi-bankrolled LIV. ‘I just don’t care’
- American holds off Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler and says his fifth major and third PGA title is ‘probably the sweetest‘
Brooks Koepka outdueled Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler in a back-nine battle on Sunday to win the US PGA Championship for his fifth major title, giving Saudi-backed LIV Golf a milestone triumph.
The 33-year-old American captured his third PGA Championship and became the first player to win a major since joining LIV, firing a three-under-par 67 to finish 72 holes on nine-under 271 at Oak Hill in New York state.
“This is probably the sweetest one of them all because [of] all the hard work that went into it,” Koepka said. “This one is definitely special.”
Norway’s 11th-ranked Hovland, chasing his first major title, and American Scheffler, last year’s Masters winner and the new world No 1, shared second on 273.
“I put up a good fight. I played great today,” Scheffler said. “I gave the guys on top of the leader board something to think about.
