2021 PGA Championship takeaways: Brooks Koepka flashes championship mettle, more we learned at Kiawah Island

Louis Oosthuizen, Rickie Fowler and Padraig Harrington also thrived ... so what year is this again?

When major weeks feel like a dream, as last week's PGA Championship often did, there's always the shock of Monday morning to make you remember that they are not. After seven straight days of imbibing from the deepest well of major championship golf at a course like Kiawah, it's jarring to wake up and find only the photos that were taken to commemorate the experience. Sometimes that jolt back to reality is a welcome one, but this Monday's only serves as a reminder that Phil Mickelson, half a century old, really did hug that trophy next to the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday evening. He really did the thing that nobody actually thought he could do until about the 280th of his 282 strokes last week.  I found myself wishing it was a five-round event.