With a $1.6 million winner's check, the 29-year-old surpassed $101 million in career on-course earnings, joining fellow golf legends Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in golf's exclusive $100 million club.
In the buildup to the Masters last year, I was eating a lot of elk. I got this big shipment of elk and I was eating a lot of that. I didn't want elk to be the main course because I didn't know if everyone would like that. So I incorporated that into the appetisers.
The upstart, Saudi Arabian-backed LIV was a disrupter designed to become the dominant tour in the sport. It made bold pronouncements while poaching players from the establishment, the United States-based PGA Tour.
I'm happy, but I'm also sad about my final year as a Bruin, adding that it's pretty cool to know that my dream school has become my legacy. I'm going to stand for what is right. I am doing the things to make sure no other athlete has to go through what I had to go through.
Bay Hill is long, demanding, the rough is thick and if your long irons aren't sharp, you're going to feel it by Saturday. The par 3s are no joke -- 200-plus yards -- on a course where a birdie fest is subdued. It's more about controlled tee shots, strong iron play and guys who survive missed greens.
Similar to the Bethpage Golf Course on Long Island, New York, Riviera rewards smart decisions over sheer power. The opening round was suspended due to darkness following a mid-afternoon rain delay. Aaron Ria leads at 6under par after 16 holes with the rest of his round being finished out early Friday morning. Jacob Bridgeman and Rory McIlroy are tied at 5-under at the completion of their opening round.
Akshay Bhatia did enough early with six birdies in seven holes that carried him to a 4-under 68 and a two-shot lead in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. But the worst might still be to come. Starting times were moved up one hour for the final round with a forecast of big wind and rain, a time for players to hang on by the seat of their rain pants.
Koepka was ranked 10th in the world then, had just finished runner-up at the PGA Championship (his 10th top-10 finish in a major in his past 15 appearances) and boasted the fourth-best odds to win that week. His aura was unmistakable then -- he had four majors to his name and had engineered a reputation for himself that exuded a kind of cool carelessness matched only by his effortless confidence on the sport's biggest stages.