FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- The winds were howling, the skies above Bethpage Black were darkening, and yes, the terminator named Brooks Koepka was showing his human frailty in a most alarming way. He was choking. How does one stop choking when everyone is enjoying the spectacle and nobody is willing to offer first aid?
We're still in the lead...we're still in the lead, his caddie, Ricky Elliott, kept telling him. But after four consecutive bogeys on the back nine, what had been a seven-stroke lead -- the largest 54-hole lead in PGA Championship history -- was down to one with four holes to play and his friend turned enemy, Dustin Johnson, ready to take the Long Island major that Koepka took from him at Shinnecock Hills last year.