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Low scores at Erin Hills has traditionalists seeing red

ERIN, Wis. (AP) Brooks Koepka is a modern golfer who won his first major on a modern golf course.

That would be one way to look back at this U.S. Open.

No one played better. No one did a better job of answering every challenge. He putted for birdie on every hole except the 13th, where Koepka made a clutch par putt that sent him toward three straight birdies, a knockout punch. That 8-iron he hit to the back portion of the 15th green was better than it could ever look on TV.

But as Koepka posed with the U.