Is Brooks Koepka Gearing Up To Win PGA Championship AGAIN?

Tour Winner Tripp Isenhour and Matt Adams discuss Brooks Koepka’s trajectory after the newly-minted father and PGA Champion won at LIV Singapore, raising the possibility that Brooks could be eyeing a successful defense at Valhalla GC.

let’s listen to this from Brooks after his most recent win he’s talking about getting ready for the PGA Championship I want to get your reaction to it and were you aware during the round itself kind of how some of the guys were kind of nipping at your heels I don’t know how much you were looking at the at the leaderboard but you always seem to to come up with the clutch uh parve or whatever just to maintain the lead they never actually caught you yeah I watch it all the time I to me it doesn’t make any difference I’m still doing what I got to do or focusing on what I need to focus on um like if somebody goes out and and beats me and I have no problem with losing if I get flat out beat that doesn’t bug me but um like I said just kind of using it for for last second prep for for the PGA do you feel that you play better under pressure I mean I like to think so but I don’t know if I mean I think when there’s more on the line it’s more more enjoyable and it actually feels like real golf so you know nobody wants to be out competing on a Sunday when you’re battling for 45th um it’s just kind of a go at everything and hope you should a low round but uh being in contention kind of gets gets to be a little bit more fun and I think what what guys are used to all right so if he were to defend amazing right if he’s def to defend next week he’ll join the company with four or more PGA championships of Walter Hagen Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods I mean just let that simmer for a second with what we’re talking about he said that he was embarrassed by the Masters that he was embarrassed he has now he has to grind it out so we’re looking at a defendant there’s his his quotes from the sa I think the embarrassment of Augusta really kicked things into overdrive for me and really having to put my nose down and grind it a little bit harder and having to look at my team in the eye and apologize I’m not looking to do that again it’s all external sometimes I can make it external but it’s all internal to me oh it’s all internal should say look I don’t enjoy playing bad it’s not fun for me quote close open and close from from Brooks so let’s talk about this for a second here trip and and talking about that mental fortitude that Brooks Kea seems to have in what he’s doing which again in this context of all these things we’re talking about that are absolutely historic that are swirling all around us at professional golf he’s in a position of doing something that is incredibly unique and quite simply only him well look I’ve gotten to see Brooks kept K play up close in major championships and and the first time I saw it I was like oh my gosh it’s so easy to see why this guy plays well in the toughest championships he plays incredibly conservative correct golf he he is very patient he understands that these uh it’s not about attacking and making birdies like a normal PGA Tour event it’s about being in position with a your t- shots and then where you position your shots into into greens I I remember even uh one shot I thought he was going to go at he had I thought a perfect number and a hole that he would go after and he still hit it to the correct side about 15 feet away he ended up making the putt but he could have hit that shot a lot closer and taking on trouble so that mindsets there but but just listening to him talk right there I’m going to have to do one of these videos with that because uh that’s incredible stuff I mean that that says everything to me about you know he gets excited when he’s in competition yeah he’s nervous I mean Jack Nicholas talked about it he said I loved being nervous on the first te because that meant it meant something and but they know how to handle it and that gets them going they having that competition and um one other thing he said I saw it on um on X recently was um he was talking about how when he plays casual golf he stinks he can’t play at all because it doesn’t mean anything so so that tells you right there where where his competitive fire is and of course I think Brook Kea is going to be part of the story at the PGA I mean he just he’s got the prototypical game now he’s in form and look when you have your first child you do get some distractions and even Brooks Kea kind of admits that but now I think winning as a father for the first time and now having the chance at Valhalla look he’s going to be a factor there he’s going to be a factor at pineh her for sure just because of the style of his game and the way he goes about these major championships yeah I just think that aside from the style the body of work that he’s putting together the way that his mind works that he doesn’t have a problem telling us he he’s he’s the type guy that he’s in a press conference he’ll tell you exactly what’s on his mind I mean I don’t think that Brooks keco would be the type person you’d want to have around if you ask the question does a sweater make me look fat because he just gives you to you straight it’s unbelievable