Brooks Koepka
| Brooks Koepka | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
May 3, 1990 West Palm Beach, Florida |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 186 lb (84 kg; 13.3 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States |
| Career | |
| College | Florida State University |
| Turned professional | 2012 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Former tour(s) |
European Tour Challenge Tour |
| Professional wins | 7 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 1 |
| European Tour | 1 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 1 |
| Challenge Tour | 4 |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | T21: 2016 |
| U.S. Open | T4: 2014 |
| The Open Championship | T10: 2015 |
| PGA Championship | T4: 2016 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year | 2014 |
Brooks Koepka (born May 3, 1990) is an American professional golfer.
He is ranked inside the top-25 in the Official World Golf Ranking and chose a different route than other young Americans to get mainstay status on the PGA Tour, by starting his career on the European Challenge Tour and eventually the European Tour.
He also played collegiate golf at Florida State University.
Early years and amateur career
Koepka was born in West Palm Beach, Florida but raised in Lake Worth, Florida. He attended Cardinal Newman High School. He played college golf at Florida State University where he won three events and was a three-time All-American.[1] He qualified for the 2012 U.S. Open while still an amateur, but missed the cut.
Professional career
In the summer of 2012, Koepka turned professional and began playing on the Challenge Tour in Europe. He won his first title in September at the Challenge de Catalunya.[2] In 2013 he had his second victory on the Challenge Tour, winning the 2013 Montecchia Golf Open for [3] He followed this a month later with his third win, the Fred Olsen Challenge de España, where he set the tournament record, 260 (−24), and won by a record 10 strokes.[4] Three weeks later he had his third win of the year at the Scottish Hydro Challenge. With those three wins, he earned his European Tour card for the remainder of the 2013 season and for the full 2014 season.[5] The day after his third Challenge Tour win of 2013, Koepka qualified for the 2013 Open Championship. Koepka made his debut as a member of the European Tour (he played in three events prior to promotion to membership) at the Scottish Open, finishing T12.
In his first event of the 2014 PGA Tour, Koepka led after the second and third rounds of the Frys.com Open. He finished tied for third. At the U.S. Open, he collected a fourth-place finish, which earned him his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season and his first Masters invitation. Later he ended 15th at the PGA Championship. He was nominated for the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award. On the 2014 European Tour, Koepka won the Turkish Airlines Open and finished third at the Dubai Desert Classic and Omega European Masters, and ninth at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He ranked 8th in the 2014 Race to Dubai rankings and was named the European Tour's Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year.
On February 1, 2015, Koepka won his first PGA Tour event, the Waste Management Phoenix Open[6] and moved to 19th in the Official World Golf Ranking.[7]
In the summer of 2015, Koepka was pretty consistent and found himself in contention on multiple occasions. At the 2015 Open Championship, Koepka improved every day and a final round 68 vaulted him into a tied for 10th at the Old Course at St Andrews. The very next week, Koepka was tied for fourth after 54 holes at the RBC Canadian Open but a final round 74 plummeted him down to a tied for 18th at the Glen Abbey Golf Course. He then went on to finish tied for 6th at the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and tied for 5th at the 2015 PGA Championship.
In 2015, Koepka chose to forfeit his European Tour membership, citing an inability to travel between the U.S. and Europe.
Koepka's brother Chase is also a professional golfer. In 2016, Chase earned status on the Mackenzie Tour after finishing within the Top 40 of the Tour's qualifying school.
Amateur wins (1)
- 2009 Rice Planters Amateur
Professional wins (7)
PGA Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 1, 2015 | Waste Management Phoenix Open | −15 (71-68-64-66=269) | 1 stroke |  Hideki Matsuyama, Ryan Palmer Bubba Watson |
PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2016 | AT&T Byron Nelson |  Sergio García |
Lost to par on first extra hole |
European Tour wins (1)
| Legend |
| Race to Dubai finals series (1) |
| Other European Tour (0) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning Score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 16, 2014 | Turkish Airlines Open | −17 (69-67-70-65=271) | 1 stroke |  Ian Poulter |
Challenge Tour wins (4)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 30, 2012 | Challenge de Catalunya | −16 (68-67-65=200) | 3 strokes |  Alessandro Tadini |
| 2 | May 5, 2013 | Montecchia Golf Open | −23 (66-67-62-66=261) | 7 strokes | Agustin Domingo |
| 3 | Jun 2, 2013 | Fred Olsen Challenge de España | −24 (64-66-64-66=260) | 10 strokes | Luis Claverie,  Édouard Dubois, Bernd Ritthammer |
| 4 | Jun 23, 2013 | Scottish Hydro Challenge | −18 (70-66-62-68=266) | 3 strokes |  An Byeong-hun, Andrea Pavan, Steven Tiley, Sam Walker |
Japan Golf Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 20, 2016 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | −21 (65-70-63-65=263) | 1 stroke | Yuta Ikeda |
Results in major championships
| Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | DNP | DNP | DNP | T33 | T21 |
| U.S. Open | CUT | DNP | T4 | T18 | T13 |
| The Open Championship | DNP | CUT | T67 | T10 | DNP |
| PGA Championship | DNP | T70 | T15 | T5 | T4 |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10
Summary
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| U.S. Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| The Open Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 11 |
- Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (2013 PGA – 2016 PGA, current)
- Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2015 Open – 2015 PGA)
Results in World Golf Championships
| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Cadillac Championship | T17 | T23 |
| Dell Match Play | T17 | QF |
| Bridgestone Invitational | T6 | WD |
| HSBC Champions | DNP | T40 |
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
WD = Withdrew
"T" = Tied
Yellow background for top-10.
U.S. national team appearances
Professional
See also
- 2013 Challenge Tour graduates
- List of golfers with most Challenge Tour wins
- List of golfers to achieve a three-win promotion from the Challenge Tour
References
- ↑ "Florida State Seminoles profile". Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ↑ "American Koepka claims maiden Challenge Tour victory". PGA European Tour. September 30, 2012.
- ↑ "Koepka proves his star potential with swashbuckling Montecchia Golf Open win". Daily Mail. May 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Record-breaker Brooks enters history books". PGA European Tour. June 2, 2013.
- ↑ "With This Win – Brooks Koepka". PGA European Tour. June 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Koepka earns 1st PGA Tour win". ESPN. Associated Press. February 1, 2015.
- ↑ "Week 5: Koepka Breaks Into The Top 20". Official World Golf Ranking. February 2, 2015.
External links
- Brooks Koepka at the European Tour official site
- Brooks Koepka at the PGA Tour official site
- Brooks Koepka at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
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