Motivated by the crowd turning on him, Koepka delivered the key shots over the closing stretch as Johnson faded with two straight bogeys. He closed with a 4-over 74 for a two-shot victory and joined Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship since it went to stroke play in 1958.
It was an amazing run for the 20 year old New Hartford graduate; but, Derek Bard fell short at the finals of the U. S. Amateur Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club near Chicago on Sunday.
Bard faced NCAA champion Bryson DeChambeau of SMU in Sunday's final and fell behind early and was unable to recover, losing 7 and 6 in the 36-hole final at Olympia Fields...
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