Two days before the start of the PGA Championship, the contrast of the legendary golfer with another, far less famous contender made for a great match.
By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow May 14 at 5:43 PM FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — The PGA Championship might feel strange in the Big Ten football weather of May rather than the traditional vile humidity of August, but Tuesday already it went and brought the unlikely.
Brooks Koepka, having won three of the past eight major titles while finishing well in four others and tying for second last month in the Masters — a run shocking both in merit and in the lack of buzz over it — sounded all of 29 when he said his major-title total could get well more numerous. “I don’t see why you can’t get to double digits,” he said of himself. “I think you keep doing what you’re supposed to do, you play good, you peak at the right times.
Brooks Koepka plays a practice round at the Bethpage Black course “Well, I think that I can’t spend every day working on every part of my game,” he said. “That’s just not going to happen anymore.”So he spoke of being economical and wily and prepared and hitting a lot of wedge shots. “I don’t load the body like I used to and be as explosive for, call it a three-, four-hour period on the range,” he said. “Those days are gone. But what I can do is I can hit a lot of wedge shots.
“If you just hang around — I think one of the big things that I’ve learned over the last few years is you don’t need to win it, you don’t have to try to go win it. Just hang around. If you hang around, good things are going to happen. So I think that’s what’s kind of caused me an issue in the regular PGA Tour events. I’ve gone out on Saturday and tried to build a cushion, maybe pressed a little bit too hard and gotten ahead of myself, where in the majors I just stay in the moment.
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