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US PGA: Brooks Koepka driven by ‘choking’ at Augusta
American aiming to move on from final-day collapse in Masters and deliver first major title for LIV
Koepka challenged at the Masters last month and will aim to claim his fifth major at the US PGA
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Is this the week when a man with LIV Golf livery gets to win a major? It is a scenario that will have American golf chiefs choking on their lawsuits, but the best of the breakaway believe they can tame the game’s twin titans and a “brute of a course” to plant a flag on new ground at Oak Hill.
Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Cameron Smith and Phil Mickelson provide an eclectic lead group for the LIV lobby as the US PGA Championship gets under way in Rochester.
Johnson, 38, won the latest LIV round in Tulsa on Sunday and duly dismissed the idea that a win for the Saudi start-up would provide a sense of validation. “I don’t need to keep proving myself,” he
