With his PGA Championship title protection looming, Brooks Koepka is seeking for the video game that observed him gain a fifth significant championship final 12 months at Oak Hill Region Club.
He did not seem particularly assured all through a news convention Thursday in advance of the LIV Golf Singapore function, which commences Friday morning (9:15 p.m. ET Thursday).
“Clearly not incredibly superior,” Koepka reported when asked how his game was trending in advance of the PGA at Valhalla, which starts May 16. “With Augusta the way that it went, I kind of felt like I squandered all the time from December until then. Just maintain grinding absent, preserve performing the perform, and with any luck , a thing will switch about.”
Brooks Koepka shot 4 in excess of-par rounds at the Masters and completed T45.
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Koepka was referring to the Masters, the place he tied for 45th and was in no way actually in the tournament after tying for 2nd past year. He opened with a 73 and additional rounds of 73, 76 and 75.
That came following weekend rounds of 78-78 in LIV’s function in Miami the weekend prior.
Koepka lamented his placing, which caused a putter switch a couple of months back. Though he tied for 19th in the placing stats at Augusta National, he believes which is been the most important resource of his hassle.
He switched to a mallet putter just lately.
“It’s been in the bag two weeks before Augusta, I have not even putted with that other putter, the a person I have putted with for—the button back again I’ve most likely putted with for 12, 14 several years, I haven’t putted with it considering the fact that then,” he explained.
“I cannot obtain the gap at all, to be honest with you. A thing we’ve just been putting some get the job done into, so striving to locate some solutions.”
Asked what the main issue is, Koepka claimed: “Ball doesn’t go in the hole, that’s commonly just one of them. I never know how else to simply place it. I sense like I’m hitting excellent putts, they just continue to keep burning lips. At some point it begins to put on on you right after a whilst. All you can do is strike a very good putt and see in which it goes from there. With any luck , they start off falling before long.”
In six LIV Golfing functions so considerably this calendar year, Koepka has only been on the fringe of rivalry, with two prime 10s, such as a tie for 10th on Sunday in Adelaide.
