Cowen, right, returned to help Koepka after a tough spell for the former world No 1“There were a lot of expletives,” Brooks Koepka said as he assessed his reunion with Pete Cowen. Golf’s major machine had become beset by gremlins this year and so he needed the uncensored words of his Yorkshire coach. Koepka’s second place at the WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational on Sunday was a timely restoration job as he prepares to become the first man since Walter Hagen in 1926 to wina third successive US PGA Championships. The first major of the revised year starts in San Francisco on Thursday and Koepka is back in the discussion. The 30-year-old from Florida, who has won four major titles, had fallen by the wayside even before the lockdown, slipping on concrete

Source: The Times August 03, 2020 16:07 UTC