Brooks Koepka says he thrives in majors because they're the toughest tests. The PGA Championship was every bit of that on a rainy Saturday at Oak Hill in Pittsford, N.Y., and so was Koepka.
Koepka was at his best even during occasional downpours, and he surged into the 54-hole lead for the second straight major. He had a 4-under 66 — the low round at Oak Hill for the second straight day — and led by one shot over Viktor Hovland and Canadian Corey Conners.
Now he has to finish it off. Koepka failed to do that last month at the Masters when he had a two-shot lead, played it safe and shot 75 and Jon Rahm tracked him down to win by four. "I know what I did," Koepka said. "I promise I won't show up like that tomorrow." The last player to have the low score in the second and third rounds of a major championship was Tiger Woods in the 1997 Masters, which he won by a record 12 shots.
Koepka, who was at 6-under 204, won't have it that easy. Conners, a 31-year-old from Listowel, Ont., played Oak Hill like a U.S.