Despite the combined absences of Tiger Woods and Ludvig Åberg during the match between Jupiter Links and Bay Golf Club on Tuesday, February 25, there was a show at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens (Florida). On (6-3 victory of Bay Golf Club composed of Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark and Min Woo Lee) and outside the “field” with the presence in particular of… Brooks Koepka.
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The five-time Major winner, who moved to LIV Golf in the summer of 2022 for several hundred million dollars, thus came for the first time to the SoFi Center. He took the opportunity to chat at length with Max Homa, Kevin Kisner and Shane Lowry.
What is less well known is that Brooks Koepka, who lives very close to this same SoFi Center, has direct interests with the Tech Golf League. The Floridian indeed owns shares in Locker Room, an investment fund that invested in TMRW Sports of Woods and Rory McIlroy, the owners of TGL. QED!
33rd in Riyadh for the first tournament of LIV Golf 2025, Brooks Koepka took 7th place in Adelaide on February 16. Captain of the Smash GC, he will be in Hong Kong (March 7-9) for the third stage of the dissident circuit.
Brooks Koepka (born May 3, 1990 in West Palm Beach, California) is an American golfer.
Winner of the 2017 and 2018 U.S. Open and the 2018, 2019, and 2023 PGA Championship, he became the first golfer in history to simultaneously hold the titles of two Majors for two consecutive years. He became world number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings after winning the 2018 CJ Cup, occupying that position in four times for a total of forty-seven weeks.
Career
He played golf at Florida State University in Tallahassee and, as an amateur, won three tournaments and was a three-time All-America. He managed to qualify for the 2012 U.S. Open, where however he did not make the cut.
That same summer he turned professional, playing on the Challenge Tour. He won his first title at the Challenge de Catalunya, while the following season he won the Montecchia Open and triumphed at the Challenge de España, where he set a competition record score of 260 (-24), winning by 10 strokes. Three weeks later, with the victory of the Scottish Challenge, he earned the chance to play on the European Tour for the rest of 2013 and 2014.
In that year he won the Turkish Airlines Open and placed third at the Dubai Desert Classic and the Omega European Masters. Having finished eighth in the Race to Dubai rankings, he was named “rookie of the year”. In 2015 he also won his first title on the PGA Tour, the Phoenix Open. At the Open Championship he finished tenth and at the PGA Championship he concluded fifth. At the end of the season he gave up playing on the European Tour.[3]
At the U.S. Open 2017 wins his first Major, scoring a -16 and thus equaling Rory McIlroy’s 2011 tournament record. In the following year, despite an operation on his wrist and the consequent withdrawal from the Masters, he successfully defends the U.S. Open title (no one had succeeded since Curtis Strange in 1989) and wins his third Major, the PGA Championship. Thanks to the victory of the CJ Cup he reaches the first position in the world ranking.
In May 2019 he triumphs again at the PGA Championship, a result that allows him to regain the top spot in the ranking, which he subsequently maintained for 38 consecutive weeks. That year he also wins his first World Golf Championship competition, the FedEx St. Jude Invitational. For the second consecutive year he is named “player of the year” by the PGA of America. Qualified for the 2019 Presidents Cup, he was forced to retire due to a knee injury that also affected him in the 2020 season.
In February 2021 he returned to success at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, where on the final day he recovered from a five-shot deficit with a score of 65, 6 shots under par.
On May 21, 2023 he won the third PGA Championship of his career, becoming the fifth player to win five Major Tournaments.
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