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MEAN

GREEN

Brooks Koepka reacts after
sinking a putt on the 18th green
to win the PGA Championship
golf tournament, Sunday, May
19, 2019, at Bethpage Black in
Farmingdale, N.Y.
Associated Press

Why it took

4 majors for

Koepka to

get his due

By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) —
Majors matter more than
any other golf tournament.
They are not the sole mea-
sure of greatness.
And that might be one rea-
son it took Brooks Koepka
winning four majors — as
many as Rory McIlroy, one
more than Jordan Spieth
among his contemporaries
— for the 29-year-old Flo-
ridian to get the kind of at-
tention his game deserves.
Never mind the No. 1 rank-
ing that came with his vic-
tory Sunday in the PGA
Championship. That could
change in two weeks.
Koepka now is at that lev-
el — and it took back-to-
back titles in the U.S. Open
and PGA Championship to
get there — that he makes
people look when he walks
onto the range, that he's Warriors sweep Blazers with yet
considered a top favorite
wherever he goes without another big comeback
anyone having to look up
the odds.
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, right, blocks the shot of Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu during the
Continued on Page 22 second half of Game 4 of the NBA basketball playoffs Western Conference finals Monday, May 20, 2019, in Portland, Ore. The War-
riors won 119-117 in overtime.
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