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<\/p>\nReturning PGA Tour star Brooks Koepka has pulled off one of the shots of the tournament in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.<\/p>\n
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Koepka made the cut in his first event since rejoining the PGA Tour, but won\u2019t be challenging the winner as he\u2019s in a tie for 61st at the conclusion of Round 3. <\/p>\n
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At -2, he\u2019s 19 shots behind runaway leader Justin Rose (-21), who fired seven birdies in another dominant display on Torrey Pines\u2019 formidable South Course on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old got off to a blistering start and held his nerve on Torrey\u2019s testing back nine to build a 54-holetotal of 21-under par 195. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that was the round of the week from tee to green anyway,\u201d said Rose, whose 12 US tour titles include a 2019 triumph at Torrey. <\/p>\n
He led by as eight shots and finished the day six strokes in front of American Joel Dahmen, who had five birdies and a bogeyin his 68 for 201. <\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Ryo Hisatsune and South Korean Kim Si-woo shared third on 203, Hisatsune posting a 68 and Kim a 69.<\/p>\n
While Koepka won\u2019t be picking up a fairytale winners\u2019 cheque in his Tour return, he provided the day\u2019s highlight when he hit a six iron off a cart path and through the trees to within ten feet of the hole. <\/p>\n
\u201cOh my goodness, sparks are flying,\u201d broadcaster Jim Nantz reacted. <\/p>\n
Koepka, one of the highest-profile players to jump to the divisive LIV league, announced in December he would leave the Saudi-backed circuit, and his return to the PGA Tour was facilitated by a new program for returning players that includes limitations on eligibility for some top events as well as financial penalties. <\/p>\n
The US star again drew warm, supportive galleries, but his struggles on the greens included a double bogey at his second hole, the 11th, where he three-putted from four feet. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou just miss a few and you\u2019ve got zero confidence,\u201d Koepka said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just going to chalk it up to just a bad day, but I\u2019m happy with everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a candid chat post-round on the CBS broadcast, Koepka admitted he didn\u2019t know how the crowd would acknowledge him in his return to the Tour. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what I expected but this is beyond what I could\u2019ve dreamed of. It\u2019s (the response from the fans) has been overwhelming,\u201d Koepka said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous. It was a little weird but once you get a few holes in, you get back into the comfort zone and everything feels like normal again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Returning PGA Tour star Brooks Koepka has pulled off one of the shots of the tournament in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2095,1724,64,63,233042,233043,37104,172568,11096,12180,9239,233041,233040,755,82521,941,37076,6920,2041,2067,233039,85,6953,43482,2614],"class_list":["post-450900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-candid-chat-post-round","tag-cart-path","tag-cbs-corporation","tag-cut-line","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-dominant-display","tag-eastern-asia","tag-emotional-interview-reveal","tag-epic-circus","tag-golf","tag-highest-profile-players","tag-japan","tag-jim-nantz","tag-justin-rose","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-rare-highlight","tag-sports","tag-tee-times","tag-tour-titles","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}