Yes, Erin Hills played historically easy this week, making the numbers on the scoreboard look more like the Pebble Beach Pro-Am rather the U.S Open. Yes, the wind that was supposed to wreak havoc in Sunday’s round ended up being as much of a factor as the fescue that was separated by 60 yards of fairway. Yes, there were more than three times as many players in double-digit red numbers than in all the previous 116 Opens combined. It’s all true. And none of it takes anything away from 2017 U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka.
There’s no asterisk by Koepka’s name because he happened to win the easiest Open ever.