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The Live From crew is joined by Jamie Diaz to discuss Brooks Koepka’s form heading into the PGA Championship and the mentality he displays when playing in majors. #GolfChannel #PGAChampionship
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dominant uh over the last 10 years 63 under six top fives 11 rounds of 66 or better Strokes gained Tia green he is nearly Plus 90 Strokes gained approach almost at plus 44 the two wins backto back beginning in 2017 at B re where he hit out one of the greatest long irons in history this major championship late on that Sunday to the part three and then he went at Beth Page black playing live golf right now so these are the results for Brooks in 2024 uh T5 in Mexico not a whole lot thereafter poor performance at the Masters better in Australia and then he would put it together and win in his last start that was in Singapore so Brooks uh starting to find some form after what he felt was an embarrassing performance at that Masters you’re peing at the right time you know especially the PJ Championship coming up so you know uh is it the you know the confidence that they will bring you into the tournament and defending your title yeah I mean I guess I’ve I’ve gone back to back at the PJ in the US Open um hopefully looking to do it again I don’t know if it’s ever been done but that’ be kind of a cool cool thing i’ I’ve tried the three repeat not very good at it out here um and at the majors but uh look the whole goal I think the embarrassment of Augusta kind of really kicked things in an Overdrive for me and really having to um put my nose down and grind it out a little bit harder and um you know having to look my team in the eye and apologize so um I’m not looking to do that again yeah you can feel the excitement there in Brooks kep Haim Diaz joins us now by the way for what it’s worth Tiger Woods has won the PGA Championship back toback on two different occasions what do you make of Brooks Kea as uh we arrive at this Championship he’s quite amazing in that he’s a really an Aly in terms of having the narrowest raate ratio of Majors to regular tour victories I mean he’s got five Majors obviously and only nine uh PJ tour uh victories and you don’t see that very much even close uh you know sevie had five Majors nine but he had 50 wins in Europe uh Peter Thompson had six excuse me five and then six PJ tour victories but he had like 48 in Australia Nick F had six majors and only regular events but 30 in Europe so Brooks has you know just sort of been as you say the Big Game Hunter and I think there’s a couple of reasons I think one is he’s admittedly not really truly in love with the game that much and he does get a little uh uninterested when it comes to regular tour events and I think the second one is that he has been overlooked in his career and I think he looks at Majors as the real moment that he can show everybody how good he is and how tough he is uh and and Pete Cowen uh picks up on these kind of things and tries to Spur him that way and after the Masters he talked to him and he said and this happened also last year before Rochester you’ve got to get it together these a strong you know you strong words and said you’re really being soft here you better get harder you better be who you are and I think it really appealed to to Brooks’s idea of who he is as a you know kind of a supreme jock yeah Paul what What’s the phrase you you like when talking about great athletes yeah it’s about performing in the allocated time wise man told me that a long time ago and I’ve never forgotten it and and you know the gun goes off particularly you know they say that begins in last night at the Masters on Sunday that’s the allocated time but the allocated time of course is the first te in the major championship players uh of this era and any era know that they’re going to be gauged more by what they do in major championships than anything else I think Brooks gets that I think he gets excited about it some guys shrink in that environment and some guys move forward very few in fact move forward he’s one of the outliers who moves forward uh he comes in here with a lot of farm he’s won three of the last six PGA championships um since 2017 had nine top twos in major championships that’s double anybody else Scotty Sheffer Rory maroy whever you want to put against that none of them have performed in the allocated time which is major championships as good as Brooks kka is so you dismiss this guy at his Peril particularly when he’s coming in uh with a little chip on the shoulder which is always good for any athlete particularly for him H and on the top of uh winning a few weeks ago so he’s a real threat to win again his fourth PGA Championship this week in my opinion well there’s so many things to love about Brooks kka game uh just watching the way he gets into shots the way he plays the game the way he talks about the game uh you know often players sound over coached he never does uh I love uh how honest he is in his iness assessments of his play what he said last year after the Masters when he made a minim he said I made a mental mistake mental mistake I’m not going to do that again uh you know he derided himself after the Masters this year then he wins Singapore so he comes in here I love to your point I love how he doesn’t diminish or try to diminish the weight of the majors trying to take the pressure off of them Jack Nicholas didn’t do that Tiger Woods certainly didn’t do that they elevated him they said I’m trying to Peak for these things Brooks kka says similar things the reason he’s overlooked and by the way he’s won five and he continues somehow to be overlooked because he comes in one player and literally transforms into another he comes in and he’ll be the 97th player in Strokes SK approach okay so you look at that and you think he’s off then he’ll be first in the major he’ll come in the next he 65th in Strokes G approach then first so and you know another thing he’s not susceptible to and i’ I’ve Loved this and we’ve seen an an epidemic of it this year he’s not he he seems to be immune to the plague of perfectionism that pervades the PGA tour in essence you can’t you can’t access the highest reaches of this game unless you know and can solve all the riddles of the infinite possibility of all the golf swings you can’t talk simply about this game unless you can talk esoterically about this game he cuts through through all the Clutter and he turns into Reggie Jackson 1977 World Series game six when he hit home run after home run after home run and everybody’s like he’s Mr October well Brooks is Mr major championship I me you and I were on the range today M he looked good he lost about 15 20 pounds he leaned out a little bit I thought he had a lot of spring in his step his swing looked free what’ you think yeah the same thing and you know Pete C always emphasizes look his technical stuff is idiosyncratic it’s not perfect but when his mental you know focus is there it seems to fix all the problems and everything with with Pete’s coaching to Brooks is pretty much mental he doesn’t get into a lot of technique uh I think the focus also is is exhibited when he he does his best putting in Majors when he won of those first two US opens he was third and strokes game putting in both of them and you know he was the guy he had an eight footer that had to be made he bared down and made it and that you know he was also in the other three that he won you know Strokes gain positive certainly he’s switched over to a now uh you know that ID sycratic thing where he kind of put it on the toe with the blade is now pretty much sent center of the Mallet he’s repeating that stroke he was hitting his speed was off and the Mallet is a little more forgiving and the speed is more uniform now not lipping out as many putts Jeff pierce his coach for the last 10 years feels like the Mallet is what people are are doing now for good reason and just real quick uh he played here in 2014 I mean the world was kind of introduced to him in 2014 over here I mean he played well at Pinehurst when he got here he finished 15th so well back of Roy but shot 133 on the weekend only one player in the field beat him when nobody knew who Brooks was he was uh forecasting what he was capable of yeah last point on it um a very unique grass this week zoa grass you don’t normally see it in major championships um he’s won already in Bel Reen zaa grass and Santos a few weeks ago has just been changed his o of grass where he won so he’ll be comfortable on this surface and a very good chipper you know uh Pete C worked with his with short game it’s again he’s a big big strong guy you don’t think of him with touch necessarily just by looking at him good Putter and very good around the greens and just keep them in mind I interviewed Brooks a few years ago and he said I want to make my mark in history I want to be one of the great and time you’re thinking okay that’s a nice sentiment he’s got five majors and he’s been on record as saying he thinks he can get to 10 I wouldn’t put it past him I don’t know I think that too that too tall and I know a career that’s a huge number but I think in this era somebody getting to 10 Majors is like somebody batting 400 I just they’re never going to do it in baseball and I just don’t I just don’t see it I just think the competition is too thick and and there are too many hurdles that lead to complacency in the game I would argue you know the astronomical sums that the players are playing for um being bought by Liv th those are hurdles I would say that don’t necessarily do their best to keep you hungry maybe I’m wrong but he he plenty of money back in 2017 2018 could have walked away and you know been fine for the rest of his life he’s driven by something more he’s far away than than money I look I mean that that’s I if I if I was a Betty man I’d probably comfortably say seven and he would have done very well to get two more from this I think if he gets two more then he can be argued as the most targeted major you know focuser ever uh because you know in terms of what he’s been able to do totally it’s just so much in the corner of winning Majors way more than Jack when as far as the proportion of them you said there’s an art to peing for major championships he’s Picasso