Article 6BTYF US PGA Championship 2023: Brooks Koepka wins third title – as it happened

US PGA Championship 2023: Brooks Koepka wins third title – as it happened

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Scott Murray
from US news | The Guardian on (#6BTYF)
  • Brooks Koepka wins fifth major as Viktor Hovland suffers bunker blues
  • Club pro Michael Block makes fairytale hole in one
  • PGA Championship leaderboard

Kurt Kitayama has hovered around the upper echelons of the leaderboard all week, without ever quite inserting himself into the picture. Rounds of 70, 71 and 71. But the 30-year-old Californian, who won his first PGA Tour title a couple of months ago at the Arnold Palmer International, is off to a flyer today. Birdies at 1, 4 and now 5 have zipped him up the standings and into red figures. He's -1.

Block gives himself the chance of salvaging birdie by wedging into the centre of the green and spinning his ball back to ten feet. But he can't make the par saver. It slides by on the right and that's an opening bogey for the last man standing of the Team of 20. Rory taps in for his birdie, and well, here we go.

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