This has been a seismic year in the golfing world and a remarkable one in the life of Brooks Koepka. A year ago he tried and failed to beat a hole in the window of his courtesy car as he exited Augusta National early. Now he is 30 holes from winning a fifth major, punching his weight once again and exuding the belief that once shattered other people’s progress.
In truth there are not many contenders left. The Masters is always capable of shock and awe, fanciful scripts and late rewrites, but when the third round was stopped due to incessant rain, Koepka was at 13 under par, four strokes clear of Jon Rahm and seven ahead of the US Amateur champion Sam Bennett. There