This looks to be genuine. This isn’t some forced photo opp at the Ryder Cup. And these guys aren’t eligible for a PIP bonus so there isn’t a financial benefit to this. It appears they just wanted to take a fun photo together. What a wild turn of events.
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.
Faxon argued the golfers are playing for their countries and not their tour. And Chamblee still wasn’t having it. Have a look as this debate leads to an all-time awkward moment between the two.
This version of Koepka is clearly unaffected by the world, the rigours of constant travel and the persistent scrutiny of the golf media, but we also like the spirit of adventure on show here.
Other than Brooks Koepka, Michael Block was the biggest thing going at this PGA Championship. And in some ways, you could argue that he was the biggest. After all, no one else heard his name echoing throughout the grounds of Oak Hill.
Koepka’s victory is a huge development for the Saudi-backed league, but Koepka wasn’t thinking big-picture when he was asked if his win validated LIV Golf.
Australian Golf Digest
