It’s not often that fan-favourite Jordan Spieth hears boos ring out around him, but Ryder Cups are a different breed. When you’re representing the US on European soil, even somewhat boring rules exchanges like this one take on some added tension. And that’s what we saw on Saturday morning at the Ryder Cup. The exchange Read more…
This is no eulogy because those are for the dead, and despite how dead they looked on Friday the Americans are still alive. But the US team and their Ryder Cup aspirations are on life support, and the priest is on call for last rights.
Leishman, still seeking his maiden individual title on the LIV circuit, shared runner-up honours with India’s Anirban Lahiri as both men pocketed $US1.875 million. Yet all talk in Chicago centred on Brooks Koepka’s form ahead of the Ryder Cup.
US Ryder Cup Zach Johnson has rounded out his Ryder Cup team with wildcards Sam Burns, Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka.
Koepka, a three-time Ryder Cup participant, has only had opportunities to accrue points this year at the major championships as he plays on the LIV Golf League.
We are one step closer to Italy, and while it wasn’t a huge step—the PGA Tour held its regular-season finale at the Wyndham Championship, while the DP World Tour is off for two weeks—there was more than enough drama for a shakeup. Let’s see where both teams stand as we enter the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
For a big game hunter, Brooks Koepka’s first taste of major championship golf was a catastrophe. It was 2012, and Koepka had qualified, via a sudden-death playoff, for the US Open at Olympic Club in San Francisco. With a tidy, bogey-free one-under score on his first nine that Thursday, Koepka, a 22-year-old amateur, was leading Read more…
Brooks Koepka should be included on this year’s US Ryder Cup team. That’s the opinion from across the aisle of European Ryder Cup stalwart Rory McIlroy. As for LIV golfers playing for the host team this September in Rome, that’s another story.