Brooks Koepka Shaken By Out-Of-Control Crowd At PGA

Brooks Koepka wasn’t happy with his play during the final round Sunday at the 103rd PGA Championship and he was even unhappier with the crowd on the 18th that seemingly got out of control as Phil Mickelson made his way to the green.

“I’m not happy,” Koepka said after shooting 74 and finishing in a tie for second with Louie Oosthuizen at four-under par. “I don’t know if there’s a right word I can say on here without getting fined, but it hurts a little bit.”

The crowds broke through the gallery ropes and pushed their way up the 18th, swallowing up Mickelson and Koepka.  Koepka said his surgically repaired right knee got “dinged a few times” by people in the crowd.  “No one really gave a shit, personally,” said Koepka, who added that Rickie Fowler, waiting to congratulate Mickelson, got “drilled in the face.”

“I don’t think anybody really understands,” Koepka continued, “There’s five people kind of standing by your knee, you get a little skittish.  Like I don’t mind waiting or being in that crowd but getting my — I don’t know, it felt like somebody tried to, I don’t know what the deal was, but it’s what it is.  Be putting it in ice today.  It feels like shit right now.”

Phil Mickelson Exempt From Next Five U.S. Opens:

Phil Mickelson was hesitant but finally accepted a special invitation from the USGA into next month’s U.S. Open Championship at Torrey Pines.  Turns out he won’t need it.  With his win Sunday in the 103rd PGA Championship, Mickelson is now exempt for the U.S. Open for the next five years.

Wei-Ling Hsu Wins Pure Silk After Four-Shot Swing:

After seven seasons on the LPGA Tour, Wei-Ling Hsu from Taiwan is finally a winner.

She won the Pure Silk LPGA Championship Sunday at Kingsmill outside Williamsburg thanks to a four-shot swing on the 15th hole.

Ariya Jutanugarn, who started the final round  tied for the lead with HSU, hit her drive into a bunker on the par five 15th.  She caught her next shot thin and left it in the bunker.

She chipped out after that, hit her fourth on the green and proceeded to three-putt for a double-bogey seven.  In the meantime, Hsu rolled in a 10-foot eagle putt, picking up four shots on Jutanugarn.  The eagle got Hsu to 12-under, she added another birdie at the 16th, finished with 68 and her 13-under par total was two better than Ariya’s sister, Moriya Jutanugarn, who closed with 70 to post 11-under for solo second.

“I think this is happiest thing ever, and somehow I just cry so hard the last hole,” Hsu said. “But I feel happy. I pretty much nervous the whole day. And just got to 15 when I made that eagle putt, that really start shaking my hand and like my heart just pumping so hard it almost came out.”

Jessica Korda’s 70 got her to 10-under and a solo third.

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