Brooks Koepka is a star golfer who currently plays on the LIV tour. Prior to joining the LIV tour, Brooks Koepka also performed very well on the PGA tour. In this post, we will find out more about Brooks Koepka. Let’s get started.

Brooks Koepka: All You Need To Know

When your achievements lead you to be compared to legends like Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen, Jack Nicklaus, or Tiger Woods, you are doing things right. This is the case with Brooks Koepka, the man of fashion in world golf on his own merits. Brooks Koepka is capable of matching Tiger Woods’ feats at times.

When was Brooks Koepka born?

Brooks Koepka was born on May 3rd, 1990 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Brooks Koepka’s childhood was spent in Fort Worth and he studied at Cardinal Newman High School.

How has Brooks Koepka taken over the world of golfing?

Koepka won the PGA, the fourth major of his career, all of them lifted in the last 23 months. Of the last eight Grand Slam tournaments, half are already in the showcase of his house in Florida. Only Hogan, Nicklaus, and Woods had been able to impose such dominance on golf in such a short space of time.

The triumph in New York also placed the American golfer as the first in history capable of winning twice in two Grand Slam tournaments in a row, since he is currently the current double champion of the US Open (2017, 2018) and the PGA (2018, 2019). The June appointment at Pebble Beach can definitely elevate him, at 29 years old, as one of the best players ever. “I’m in shock, I don’t think I had even dreamed of something like this,” he confessed minutes after lifting his second Wanamaker Trophy.

What makes Brooks Koepka so successful?

One of Koepka’s great secrets to success is the appearance of calm that he always transmits, even in the worst situations. As if the thing was not with him. The Grand Slam tournaments intimidate all golfers but the one from Florida is capable of facing them normally and there are his victories to prove it. 

On Sunday, leading by seven shots at the start of the day, he teed off the 15th tee with just one shot over his good friend Dustin Johnson. Less than half of the players had taken the fairway with the drive in a hellish hole but Koepka did not frown and signed a par that gave him another margin for victory. Only when he made the last putt at 18 did he give off a certain rage of victory, pulling out a fist that sent his rivals scampering away.

How has Brooks Koepka’s career been different from other golfers?

Brooks Koepka’s career has many details that are very unusual for high-level golfers. To begin with, he had no qualms about going to Europe to start taking his first steps, given how difficult it is to get a PGA Tour card for any golfer. He started in the Challenge Tour, the second division of the Old Continent, curiously achieving his first victory in the Challenge de Catalunya, in La Graiera, 70 km from Barcelona. He repeated later in La Gomera, confirming his idyll with the Spanish fields. From then until Olympus, where he now sits comfortably, there has been a lot of work, a lot of talent and a perfect spirit for elite sport.

How competitive is Brooks Koepka?

Koepka’s success with the Grand Slam is a phenomenon that is difficult to explain. Despite what seems like a most successful career, he only has two titles on the PGA Tour for the four majors that he treasures. A balance that has opened the debate on whether he will be able to reach double figures, a milestone that only Nicklaus (18), Woods (15) and Hagen (11) have achieved.

But behind that appearance of a calm man hides a tremendously competitive golfer. And not just in golf. “We have broken some ping pong tables,” he confessed years ago, when he played in Europe, remembering old battles with one of his bosom friends, Peter Uihlein, with whom he shared a flat in Florida throughout his youth.

Brooks Koepka: Best Quotes

When you’re out here grinding away, firing at some flags, firing at the middle of the green, you just got to be very patient, and I always do a pretty good job of that in the majors.

Anytime you can get some congratulatory – anything said or the guys waiting around the green – that’s always nice. You’re out here so many weeks a year, and sometimes away from your family, and the tour kind of becomes your family. So when you have these guys hanging around, it’s special.

My whole life, I grew up watching Tiger Woods. If I tuned in to a golf tournament, that’s who I watched.

I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.

I love US Opens, I think anytime you test your whole game. You can’t make a double bogey in a US Open. It takes two holes to recover from that, where a bogey takes one, it’s just simple. You can’t make mistakes every shot. I mean there’s a double and a triple waiting around every corner, if you just kind of take your mind off of it or just relax for a half second. There’s something about majors where I just focus in a lot more.

US Open just takes so much discipline. You have got to be a great putter and just kind of let things roll off your back. That is something we do pretty well. We were able to bounce back very well considering whether it be a bogey, a double and just kind of move on. It’s a fun week. I enjoy the test. I enjoy being pushed to the limit. I enjoy playing about the toughest in golf you are ever going to play.

Is Brooks Koepka a big Tiger Woods fan?

Tiger Woods’ exploits got him hooked on golf and he has been molding himself in his image and likeness. In fact, still in high school, he bought himself the famous turtleneck shirts that the number one in the world wore then. Then came the physique, also impressive in the case of Koepka, and one of the keys to his power. “That’s why I lift so many weights,” he answered, laughing, shrugging his shoulders, after winning the PGA.

Who is Brooks Koepka dating?

Brooks Koepka has also found happiness off the pitch. He has been dating Jena Smits, an actress and model, for a long time, with fleeting appearances in series like Entourage or CSI and not so fleeting in movies like Sharknado 5 or Attack of the 20-meter cheerleader. But he is the one who looks like a golfer who is 20 meters tall. The slick game with the buff muscles is a combo that the golfing world has never seen.