By Art Spander
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SAN FRANCISCO — The marine layer, a bewitching description of weather that takes yardage from a golf shot and adds extra clothing to a golfer. Brrr.
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By Art Spander
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Brooks Koepka seems as much a contradiction as he is a champion, someone whose fame doesn’t seem to match his game, a golfer who has won more big events in a shorter time other than Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods but hasn’t connected with the people.
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By Art Spander
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — He’s not going to win. The PGA Championship, that is. But he’s winning friends. Which is as rewarding as a birdie putt. “People shouting ‘love you,’” said Jazz Janewattananond. “They love me.”
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Such a wonderful, awful, rewarding game is golf. You have it, well, not mastered but at least enough under control that the scores are low and your hopes are high. And then?
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By Art Spander
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Now he knows what it was like. Now Tiger Woods understands how the others felt when he was the man, dominating golf. Woods still can play. As we found out last month in the Masters, which he won. But it’s not like before.
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