Brooks Koepka Looking to Add More Majors to Resume in 2020
By Tim Letcher
Brooks Koepka has only won seven times on the PGA Tour, but four of his wins are in majors. Can the condensed 2020 schedule help him add to that total?
Brooks Koepka has one of the strangest bios on the PGA Tour. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just much different than most of his colleagues.
Koepka has won seven times on tour, total. Four of those seven wins are major championships. That means Koepka has already won more majors than some of golf’s greatest players, including Bernard Langer, Greg Norman and Payne Stewart. He has won as many majors as Ernie Els, Raymond Floyd and Rory McIlroy.
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Koepka put to rest rumors that he only cared about majors and not tour events, but his results do show that he has a special focus when it comes to those four special tournaments each season.
The native Floridian won his first major at the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. His final round 67 gave him a four-shot victory over Brian Harman and Hideki Matsuyama.
One year later, Koepka became the first player since Curtis Strange in 1989 to defend his U.S. Open title. His 1-over par score was good enough to top Tommy Fleetwood by one shot. Later in 2018, Koepka added the PGA Championship by holding off a hard-charging Tiger Woods in the final round.
In 2019, Koepka defended his PGA title in dominating fashion. He had a seven-shot lead after the second and third rounds and, despite shooting a 4-over par final round, Koepka won by two shots.
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This season, of course, there have been no majors and Koepka has not played that much competitive golf. He has entered five tournaments, missing two cuts and withdrawing once. In the two tournaments he has completed, Koepka finished in a tie for 43rd at the Genesis Invitational and in a tie for 47th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Koepka is sure to get his game up and running just in time for the majors. And, with the condensed schedule this season, that could be bad news for his opposition.