St Louis — Triple Major winner Brooks Koepka has fans, but they were few and far between in the final round at the PGA Championship on Sunday. A charge by Tiger Woods, playing two groups ahead, had sucked the oxygen out of the atmosphere surrounding the final pairing of Koepka and Adam Scott, who played in almost funereal silence by comparison at Bellerive. "Tiger’s coming," yelled one of the few spectators who bothered hanging around to watch Koepka and Scott after the 14-time Major champion had been through. The fan was not exactly wrong, but it hardly fazed the underappreciated Koepka. Despite one of the most powerful swings in the game, an unflappable temperament and now three Major titles — one fewer than Rory McIlroy, the same as Jordan Spieth and two more than world No1 Dustin Johnson — he is rarely mentioned among the A-listers. Whether Sunday’s two-stroke victory over Woods changes the way Koepka, 28, is perceived is an open question. "I try to acknowledge all the fans as m...
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