Bradley tearful after ending 4-year slump

It was worth the trip to Japan for Keegan Bradley, who won the Zozo Championship on Sunday with a final-round 2-under 68 to finish one shot ahead Rickie Fowler (70) and Andrew Putnam (68) for his first PGA Tour win in more than four years.

Bradley raised both arms to the sky and was tearing up after clinching the victory with a tap-in on the 18th. Thirty minutes later, he was still choking back tears.

“I've been crying since I finished,” Bradley said. “I can't remember the last time I cried.”

He said he talked to his wife, Jillian, and his mother, Kaye, in the United States on FaceTime after securing the long-sought win.

“I couldn't keep things together. I don't know what's wrong with me,” he said.

Bradley finished with a 15 under total of 265 at the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club on the outskirts of Tokyo, which hosts the only PGA Tour event in Japan.

He bogeyed two of the last five holes, but dropped a 20-foot birdie putt on the 17th to give him a two-shot lead going into the 18th ahead of playing partners Fowler and Putnam.

“I realized if I made this putt I'd have a two-shot lead,” he said. “And I just buried it. The perfect putt. It was meant to be and I'm proud of the way I handled that hole.”

The birdie followed a bogey at 16 where he shanked a shot from a greenside bunker, but still got down with two putts to share the lead with Putnam. Fowler was one shot back.

Bradley won the PGA Championship in 2011 for a fast start to his career. The rest has been a challenge.

Bradley's last PGA Tour victory was in 2018 at the BMW Championship. This is his fifth Tour victory, and he won this one from the front.

Fowler also has not won on the tour for more that three years, and Putnam is winless in four.

“Kind of bittersweet,” said Fowler, who led by one stroke after three rounds. “Obviously, I wanted to get the job done.”

LIV Golf

Brooks Koepka made birdie on the third playoff hole to beat Peter Uihlein and win the LIV Golf InvitationalJeddah for his first victory in the breakaway league.

Koepka birdied the par-5 18th in regulation for a 1-under 69, while Uihlein also made birdie on the final hole for a 70 to force a playoff. Joaquin Niemann (65) and Sergio Garcia (68) finished one shot behind in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.

Koepka won $4 million, along with an additional $750,000 for claiming the team competition. Uihlein is part of his team and earned $2.125 million for being runner-up, $750,000 for the team win and $4 million for finishing third in the season points race.

Branden Grace was second in the season race and got $8 million.

PGA Tour Champions

Fred Couples broke his age by three shots with the lowest round of his PGA Tour Champions career, a 12-under 60 that sent him to a six-shot victory in the SAS Championship in Cary, N.C., for his first title in more than five years.

Couples won for the first time since the American Family Insurance Championship in 2017.

DP World Tour

Adrián Otaegui closed with a 3-under 68 to win the Andalucia Masters by six shots for his first home victory in Sotogrande, Spain.

The Spaniard had four birdies and only one bogey, finishing at 19-under 265, breaking the record by seven shots at Valderrama.

Joakim Lagergren of Sweden (68) was second.