US PGA Championship Golf, Day Four - Koepka wins second consecutive title and fourth major

Brooks Koepka held off a late challenge from world number one Dustin Johnson to retain his US PGA Championship title and win a fourth major.

Photo from BBC Sport

The 2017 and 2018 US Open champion had a seven-shot lead at the start of the final round, but the advancing Johnson saw it cut to one shot, before Koepka held on for the win.
The world number three earned a winner's cheque of $1.98m (£1.56m) and became the first person to successfully defend the US PGA Championship and the US Open.
Johnson's three birdie's on the front nine, then another at the fifteenth, meant he was breathing down Koepka's neck.
He then suffered bogeys at 16 and 17 - and now holds a record that no-one will want, finishing runner-up at all four majors.
Koepka still had a nervy finish, bogeying the 17th for a two-shot lead with one to play.
His tee shot at the last went into a fairway bunker, but recovered onto the fairway then chipped to the green to finish with a par.
Koepka, who led from start to finish, has now won four majors in his previous eight starts - only legends Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods can match or better that record.

England's Matt Wallace earned his best finish at a major, tied for third as the highest placed European on two under, alongside Americans Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay.
The three-time European Tour winner proved that he can compete with the world's best.
Despite being a player who likes to chase a score he reached the turn at five under and looked set to improve on that after negotiating the tough 10th and 11th holes in par.
But a double bogey on the 12th was a round-spoiler and a further bogey on 17 denied him a possible third-place finish on his own.
Fellow Englishmen Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, and Danny Willett all started the day on level par, but Rose's 75, Fleetwood's 78 and Willett's 77 meant they all finished way down the leaderboard.
Spieth is still waiting to win the US PGA Championship to complete a career Grand Slam.
Koepka takes the record from the 25-year-old as the last player to win a major from start to finish, at the 2015 Masters.
Only the top six finished the tournament under par at the brutal Bethpage Park Black Course, with wind on the final day reaching 35mph.
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry finished joint eighth on one over.

Final Leaderboard
-8 B Koepka (USA)
-6 D Johnson (USA)
-2 J Spieth (USA), P Cantlay (USA), M Wallace (ENG)
-1 L List (USA)
Level S Kang (SK)
+1 R McIlroy (NIR), S Lowry (IRE), A Scott (AUS)
+2 J Janewattananond (THA)

+5 G McDowell (NIR), P Casey (ENG), J Rose (ENG)
+7 D Willett (ENG), M Fitzpatrick (ENG)
+8 F Molinari (ITA), T Fleetwood (ENG), T Hatton (ENG)
+10 R Fisher (ENG)
+12 P Mickelson (USA)

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