Koepka matches career best with 62 at St. Jude
Defending champion Brooks Koepka matched his career best with an 8under 62 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Rickie Fowler in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.
Koepka had nine birdies and a bogey on a windy day at TPC Southwind in the World Golf Championship event, a week after missing the cut in Minnesota in the 3M Open.
Koepka also will defend his PGA Championship title next week at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, and his coaches helped him realize last weekend how much he was favoring his injured left knee.
He sure seemed to have found something at TPC Southwind, where he turned in his lowest round of the year and best in seven events at this course.
This was his eighth time shooting under par in his last nine rounds here.
3 PACKERS ON COVID-19 RESERVE
The Green Bay Packers placed veteran kicker Mason Crosby, tight end Jace Sternberger and defensive tackle Trevyon Hester on their COVID-19 reserve list.
The NFL has created this reserve list for a player who either tests positive for COVID-19 or who has been quarantined after having been in close contact with an infected person or persons. Clubs aren't permitted to disclose whether player is in quarantine or is positive for
COVID-19.
The 35-year-old Crosby is the Packers' career scoring leader with 1,575 points. Sternberger, a 2019 thirdround draft pick from Texas A&M, missed the first half of his rookie season due to an ankle injury but is expected to have a much bigger role this year. He caught a touchdown pass in the Packers' NFC championship game loss to San Francisco.
Green Bay's moves come two days after Packers wide receiver Devin Funchess announced in an Instagram post that he is opting out of the 2020 season. Funchess said he made the decision for family reasons and noted that some of his closest relatives “have experienced the life-threatening impact of COVID-19 first hand.”
LPGA HIT BY VIRUS
The LPGA Tour's return to golf has yielded two positive tests for the coronavirus out of the 466 given to players and caddies before they traveled and when they arrived in Ohio for the LPGA Drive On Championship.
The LPGA says Marina
Alex had no symptoms when she tested positive before leaving for Inverness. Following 10 days of quarantine, she is expected to return next week at the Marathon Classic. The tour says one caddie also tested positive and did not travel. The caddie was only to scheduled to work the first event.
Gaby Lopez has the positive test result out of the 233 given to players and caddies at the tournament.
The LPGA says one player from the Symetra Tour, Fatima Fernandez Cano, tested positive and withdrew from last week's tournament in Michigan. The tour says she has recovered and has been cleared to play.