There’s a decent argument that Brooks Koepka remains criminally underrated. There’s often talk of ‘generational golfers’, but, come the end of it all, the American might be the only player since Tiger Woods that the history books look back on as such.
Since his four-shot win at Erin Hills in 2017, he has amassed five Major wins, the same number as Seve Ballesteros and Byron Nelson – in the same time frame Rory McIlroy has, of course, drawn a blank.
There’s also a decent argument that in among the tee-to-green Strokes Gained heroics of Scottie Scheffler, and McIlroy and Jon Rahm also getting to the top of the world rankings, the male golfer of 2023 should go to Koepka.
At Augusta he led throughout – he had the third-best 36-hole score in Masters history – until being overhauled by Rahm on the Sunday. The following month, he won the US PGA Championship in a three-horse race with Scheffler and Viktor Hovland. After an opening 72, he barely missed a beat as rounds of 66-66-67 gave LIV Golf its first Major winner. He now has 18 wins as a pro, half of them on the PGA Tour and five of those in the big ones.
“I was never the guy at college,” says the 33-year-old, who was a three-time All- American at Florida State. “And I’m not the guy out here. Five Majors
