PARIS (AP) \u2014 Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka rattled off five straight birdies on the back nine Saturday and had a 6-under 65, giving him a share of the lead in the French Open as he tries to win for the first time in more than a year.<\/p>\n
Min Woo Lee shot 68 and was tied with Koepka at 11-under 202. They were one shot clear of a trio that included Michael Kim, another American in Paris during an off week on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n
This is Koepka\u2019s third straight week playing on the European Tour, after missing the cut in the Irish Open and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.<\/p>\n
He also missed the cut in three of the four majors this year. Koepka\u2019s last victory was in August 2024 on the LIV Golf League at the Greenbrier in West Virginia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like my game has been trending in the right direction,\u201d Koepka said. \u201cIt\u2019s the results haven\u2019t been there. I feel a lot closer. I\u2019m pleased with the work I\u2019ve put in over the last few months, and nothing has shown, so hopefully got a chance to win tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
He attributed the low round at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bret\u00e8che to little more than good putting. Koepka had eight birdies in the round, finishing with a bogey on the par-3 18th when he failed to get up-and-down, missing a 6-foot putt.<\/p>\n
Lee won the Houston Open earlier this year for his first PGA Tour title, though he failed to advance beyond one week in the FedEx Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n
Guido Migliozzi (66) of Italy and Marcus Armitage (71) of England joined Kim in the group one shot behind. Kim shot a 66.<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka rattled off five straight birdies on the back nine Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-157637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}