Koepka 2018 PGA Tour player of the year

(ANSA) - Rome, October 16 - Brooks Koepka has been named the 2018 PGA Tour player of the year.
    The PGA Tour is the top American golf circuit.
    Koepka, 28, a native of West Palm Beach, Florida, won two major championships this season - the US Open and PGA Championship - and is third in the official world gold ranking.
    He was voted PGA Tour player of the year in a ballot that included British Open champion Francesco Molinari, world leader Dustin Johnson, FedEx champion Justin Rose, Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau.
    Koepka missed four months at the beginning of the year, recovering from a partially torn tendon in his left wrist that forced him to have surgery.
    After his recovery, he held off Dustin Johnson at Shinnecock Hills to win the U.S. Open for the second consecutive year, becoming the first back-to-back US Open champion since Curtis Strange in 1988 and 1989, and the fifth to win two Grand Slam tournaments in the same season, equaling Tiger Woods (2000).
    Koepka's top season, only marred by one defeat in the Ryder Cup, led him to win the prestigious award.