Congratulations to Brooks Koepka, first of all, who survived the windmills, clown mouths and other nonsense the USGA inflicted on him and his fellow PGA professionals to win the U.S. Open for the second year in a row. He's only the seventh golfer in history to pull that off, so good on him.
Koepka finished at 2-over for the tournament, as the USGA's knuckleheaded attempt to eradicate red numbers from the leaderboard succeeded. Sunday, Koepka shot a 2-under 68 on a day when Tommy Fleetwood strapped a young 63 on Shinnecock Hills, the USGA having at last been shamed into setting it up like an actual golf course and not Pirate Mike's Goofy Golf.
Not surprisingly, that made Sunday's final round by far the best and most watchable of the tournament. Which, of course, leaves us with a question.
Actually, three:
1. Why didn't the USGA set up the course the other three days the way it did Sunday, instead of choosing to embarrass the golfers, the game and Shinnecock Hills?
2. Why was Phil Mickelson still playing in the fourth round, instead of being disqualified for that stunt he pulled Saturday? And (even more egregiously) for refusing to own it by trotting out one of the lamest excuses ever?
3. How does the same organization that, a few years back, dinged Dustin Johnson two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker that was not really a bunker (spectators were actually standing in it), not DQ Mickelson, whose transgression was far worse?
Sensible answers welcome.
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