US PGA Championship 2018: day four – live!

• Live updates from the final day of the US PGA
• You can email Scott here with your thoughts
• Official live leaderboard from Bellerive
• Day three report: Woods in contention but Koepka leads

6.55pm BST

Another birdie for Rafa Cabrera Bello! He makes it three in a row at 9; that’s four in the last five holes. He reaches the turn in 31. He’s -7, alongside the aforementioned Thomas Pieters; Pat Perez, who birdies 3; and the reigning Players champion Webb Simpson, who has just birdied -2. So it’s probably time for our first update of the leader board:

-12: Koepka
-10: Scott
-9: Rahm, Fowler, Woodland
-8: Woods, Cink, Day, Thomas, Lowry, Schwartzel
-7: Cabrera Bello (9), Pieters (3), Perez (3), Simpson (2), Suri, Molinari, Kisner
-6: Poulter (4), Berger, Schauffele

6.50pm BST

Hideki Matsuyama is the latest player in the clubhouse with a 66. He ends the week at -4. For the record, the lowest fourth-round score at the PGA is Brad Faxon’s 63 in 1995. The lowest by a winner is

Colin Montgomerie
Steve Elkington’s 64 in 1995. Two other players have shot 64 in the final round: Jack Nicklaus in 1964 and Simon Dyson in 2007. There have been plenty of final-round 65s, but only two by eventual winners:

Colin Montgomerie in 1995
David Graham in 1979 and Jeff Sluman in 1988. Why am I telling you this? You know exactly why I’m telling you this.

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