The final round of the 100th PGA Championship was almost over Sunday evening. Brooks Koepka was on the 18th green at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis in two shots, all but certain to win the third major title of his career and second of the summer.
Said CBS roving reporter Peter Kostis with words both pointed and needed as he described the golf turned in by Koepka and playing partner Adam Scott: “This final pairing pretty much played in anonymity all day, and that’s a shame because they played some spectacular golf.”
They did indeed. In fact, Koepka’s four-day 264 total set the PGA Championship scoring record. Beyond that, as he had at the U.S. Open earlier this summer, anytime he was threatened, he responded with another birdie – including three straight to close out the front nine – on his way to a final-round 4-under-par 66.
Unfortunately for the winner, Tiger Woods was in the process of shooting his lowest final round ever in a major with a 64, which left him in second place for the tourney by two strokes, but front and center for most of the afternoon as he attempted to win his first major title in 10 years and 15th overall.
So that’s what CBS mostly showed, and that was mostly OK, because that’s surely what most of the viewers wanted to see.