Brooks Koepka gained his fourth particular person title on the LIV Golf League profession after taking pictures a closing spherical 68 at Sentosa Golf Membership to win the Singapore occasion by two pictures from Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman.
The reigning US PGA Champion lit the fuse of a scorching streak he hopes will produce a profitable title defence at Valhalla in two weeks’ time with a 15-under par complete for 3 rounds.
“It’s all beginning to come round,” mentioned Koepka, who grew to become the primary lively LIV Golf participant to win a serious together with his victory final 12 months at Oak Hill. “I like the way in which issues are trending.”
Koepka began the ultimate spherical with a three-shot lead, however a wide range of challengers closed the hole all through the spherical. Koepka by no means gave up the lead, although, and he bounced again from his solely bogey – a three-putt on the ninth – with a birdie.
A late Leishman birdie moved the Australian inside a shot, however a bogey on his closing gap gave Koepka a two-shot lead going into the par-5 18th, and he performed conservative to keep away from the water on the ending gap.
“I felt the warmth, however it was primarily due to how scorching it was,” Koepka mentioned. “Simply performed very constant, missed it in the proper spots. Whenever you’re enjoying with a lead, you do this. You don’t must power something.”
The workforce title went to Ripper GC, led by Leishman and Smith, and aided by Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert. The workforce, which additionally gained final week’s occasion in Adelaide, was 32-under for the match, and completed three forward of Fireball GC and Cleeks GC.
“It’s superb,” Jones mentioned. “Final week was a really particular week for us, however to come back out right here this week and do it once more is absolutely particular.”
TEAM COUNTING SCORES
1. RIPPER GC -32 (Smith 64, Leishman 66, Jones 70, Herbert 74; Rd. 3 rating -10)
2. FIREBALLS GC -29 (Chacarra 68, Garcia 68, Puig 68, Ancer 71; Rd. 3 rating -9)
2. CLEEKS GC -29 (Samooja 64, Bland 69, Kaymer 71 Meronk 71; Rd. 3 rating -9)
