Brooks Koepka has been on a roll lately. Since winning a second consecutive U.S. Open in 2018 and then adding a PGA Championship title to his name, the now three-time major champion is full of opinions and it doesn’t look like anyone is going to get him to stop voicing them.
First we heard him rip Bryson DeChambeau for taking too long between shots, then we heard him tell Sergio Garcia to “grow up.”
Now, on a Sirius XM radio show hosted by ACC blow-hard Danny Kanell, Brooks has given an even more forceful opinion on slow play and those who break the rule constantly.
“It is frustrating. There’s a lot of slow players, a lot of them are kind of the very good players, too, which is kind of the problem. I think it’s weird how we have rules where we have to make sure it’s dropping from knee height or the caddie can’t be behind you and then they also have a rule where you have to hit it in 40 seconds, but that one’s not enforced. You enforce some but you don’t enforce the others.
“Usually, if you’re put on the clock it’s ’cause you’re slow, and guys keep being put on the clock, keep doing it, keep doing it but no one ever has the balls to actually penalize them.”
BOOM!
This guy has quickly become my favorite golfer to listen to and it’s because he has been right with every opinion he’s voiced lately.
Bryson is definitely too slow, Sergio definitely needs to grow up, and the PGA Tour definitely needs to grow a pair and penalize slow players…even if their name is Jordan Spieth.
Koepka didn’t stop there and said that some times he will intentionally get his group put on the clock in order to make the other guys speed up.
“I kind of – this is probably bad to say – but I’ve kind of got a different approach. I try to slow us down, which is part of the problem.
“Some of these guys are so slow, I’ll take my sweet time getting to the ball. I don’t have to go to the bathroom, go to the restroom and just kind of chill in there for five minutes, so we get on the clock, and now we’re playing at my pace.
“It’s probably not the right thing, but it is what I do. If this happens for two holes, we play slow for two holes, the other 16 we get to play at my pace.”
This may not make him any friends on Tour, but honestly, I don’t think the guy cares. He and Dustin Johnson are buddies and they are currently ranked 2nd and 3rd in the world.
Also, Brooks has three major wins, which is one less than Rory’s four and as many as golden boy Jordan Spieth.
It’s safe to say, this is both refreshing to hear and there’s not many guys who can tell him to shut up.