PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka gets blunt with rare poor performance
Koepka’s performance at the PGA Championship was not his best and he knew it as the 4-time major winner expressed his distaste.
Brooks Koepka's best score of the week at the 2024 PGA Championship came on Sunday in a 5-under 66. However, his finish was not up to his standard, and the LIV Golf captain did not want to speak with the media.
He finished 9-under overall in the tournament and is currently tied for 24th. Many would be happy with a finish like that, but not Koepka. He does not play for Top 25s. Koepka plays to win.
“Not very good. I think it’s pretty obvious, isn’t it,” Koepka said about his week at the PGA Championship.
The five-time major champion went 67-68-74-66 on the week.
Someone asked him about the difference between Saturday and Sunday, and in true Koepka fashion, he kept it blunt.
“I don’t know, what, about eight shots,” Koepka said.
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Saturday’s high score kept him out of the hunt. He posted a 3-over 74, with a double-bogey, three bogeys and two birdies. Those two positives came on 17 and 18, but it was too late at that point.
“Yesterday, I don’t think I did one thing good at all,” he noted. “Usually when you play bad, you’ve got one thing that you do okay and you might putt bad or you might drive it bad. Yesterday was just a combination of everything.”
Saturday saw him lose strokes in every major strokes gained category. He was T74 in strokes gained total as he lost -4.45 shots to the field.
On Sunday, the 34-year-old tallied six birdies and a lone bogey on the par-3 14th. It was a night and day difference for the nine-time PGA Tour winner.
He went from hitting 9-of-18 greens on Saturday to 14-of-18 on Sunday. Koepka picked up 3.6 shots on the field total.
“I feel like I’m playing good. Yesterday was an unfortunate timing,” Kopeka said.
“But I felt like I was playing all right. I missed a bunch of putts on Friday from inside five feet, and then yesterday’s round was unfortunate. But other than that, I think I’m pretty close to right there.”
Koepka’s next event will be LIV Houston on June 7-9th, a couple of weeks before the best in the world take on Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina for the U.S. Open.
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