Brooks Koepka leads by seven shots. Photo / Getty Images
Unflappable American builds record lead ahead of PGA Championship final round.
Brooks Koepka is on the cusp of some elite company at the PGA Championship — in the record book, not on the leaderboard.
He is all alone on Bethpage Black, the public course he has turned into his private playground, leaving everyone in his wake, including Kiwi Danny Lee. Lee
carded a one-over par 71 to drop four places into a share of 14th, only four shots behind Harold Varner III, Jazz Janewattananond, Luke List and Dustin Johnson, who are tied for second.
However, they, in turn, are seven shots behind Koepka, who wasn't at his best, particularly with his putter on the toughest scoring day of the championship, and yet still kept everyone far enough behind to make the final round feel more like a victory lap.
With an even par 70 that featured a pair of three-putt bogeys, he kept a seven-shot lead and earned another entry in the record book with the largest lead since the PGA Championship switched to stroke play in 1958. No one has ever lost a seven-shot lead in the final round at any major, or even a PGA Tour event.
