On The Range: 5-Time Major Champ Brooks Koepka’s Driving Secrets | LIV Golf Andalucía

LIV Golf correspondent Rachel Drummond catches up with Smash GC captain Brooks Koepka on the Real Club Valderrama range to learn some driving secrets that have led to his incredible success on the course over the years, including five major championships.

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BRZ kepka thank you for joining us just must bring back Good Vibes you know challenge tour days back in Europe yeah yeah it’s uh it’s cool to kind of give uh little throwback to those days it was you know the most fun I had playing golf I enjoyed it so it’s always fun coming over here now you are one of the best fifth actually on live with driving not just length but accuracy so that’s what we’re going to talk about today giv you news so we’re going to start off where’s Ricky we need a driver yeah that that would help grab the driver we’ve got a glamorous assistant perfect right so all great golf swings are built on great foundation so can we start there can you just tell us you know what’s your blueprint with set up setup is uh pretty simple I think one of the only things I’m trying to do when I get over the golf ball is make sure that that I’m lined up correctly um and then ball position and then from there I just kind of let it all naturally happen right been playing this game for 27 8 years now like so you’ve already built in that system but to me what I like to do is when I set up if my Target’s at 250 let’s just say it is well done oh perfect yeah even better right so 250 so I try to keep my feet a little bit left to that which is parallel um to that 250 I try to make sure that ball position is just inside I probably play it a little further back than most people um probably realistically it’s right in there it’s just a guess I don’t know depending on the camera angle you get um and then from there I try to make sure my shoulders match it and then from there it’s just just a Turn and Burn for me so it’s literally all just Basics getting the ball position right Alignment good now Fades or drawers what are you hitting at the moment have you got a tendency with this sort of set D if I got a draw I’m hitting three well I’ve actually got a shot of a draw here that we’re going to look at now that was probably a toe ball yeah you like that wasn’t part of the right let’s have a little look here let’s pass this over so we can see now there’s obviously not a lot of drivers here this week but I’m going to show you two of your really good ones Ricky do you remember these I can already tell by setup yeah yeah I could already tell by setup that it was you know feed her a little more Clos trying to draw it we’ll assume the wind’s off the right as well that one I mean that one’s pretty straight I’ll take that you take that one and technically you say Turn and Burn isn’t that simple yeah I think it is right I the only thing I don’t I don’t think about anything in my golf swing I just try to make sure that once I get to the top I struggle when and my shoulders stop moving right if my whole body I want to feel like my feet are just pressing into the ground and then from there it’s a full rotation so once that happens if my shoulders kind of hang back and get lazy with it that’s when you’ll see a little bit more of a a draw um but from there it’s just if I turn my shoulders and go it a nice little cut so typically if you see the draw ball flight you know it’s a little bit off yeah I do I do um unless you’re absolutely trying to um which I’m sure in like those videos I was trying to hit a draw or something like that then I’ll set up a little further right but mostly it’s not my not my cup of tea and you say you set up a little bit more right why do you do that you know what does that do for a run at home yeah so basically you always try to if for that 250 I would try to keep my feet maybe 15 yards right of of Target and the club face basically right on that and honestly when I’m trying to hit a draw I swing a little slower um just keeps my shoulders locked down that hair longer um cuz I’m not the turn and burns kind of more of the cut versus kind of stay in the position and then releasing the club let’s see you hit a few you want want to see you want let’s go fade first go with okay this is a little easier okay so OB setting up ball position maybe about a ball inside that left foot feet just slightly left to that 250 and then hopefully a get one just like that and are we talking you know that sort of fade starting left moving right or push Fades what’s your preference yeah I mean to me probably set up it’s it’s just probably more of a push fade yeah um I’ve got one shot we go to if it’s a very very tight if I’m under pressure um if it’s a tight Fairway and I can fade it I got like we call it the Fairway finder this is Ricky literally just told me this talk us through the Fairway do you know what he said though do you want to know what he said that I should hit it all the time he said he said you should hit it but it doesn’t find the Fairway I’m fifth man relax he’s fifth yeah so so talk us through the Fairway finder so the Fairway finder is a little bit different it’s it’s all basically set up for me um I know a lot of you know they teach now hit up on the ball with driver that’s not me I hit down on it I hit down on it probably a degree to two degrees you do I’ve looked at the data okay all right so that’s a good thing that I’m swinging it the way I want to so for this Fairway finder I actually play it a little further back in my stance it’s kind of maybe I don’t know 6 in off the inside of of my heel yeah um I set up even more open than where I would be if the 250 I’m kind of maybe set up over the 150 my feet face is relatively Square maybe at the 200 just a little left and all I try to think of is just driving that ball down and I really smack down on that thing so it almost feels like you’re playing an iron you’re really like descending and trying to get track man or whatever we got here all the numbers they don’t it doesn’t look great but if you watch the ball flight it’s just a very low penetrating flight that ends up running it’s perfect for Link Golf so hopefully next yeah you’re getting ready for True next week come on let’s see that one then let’s see the Fairway finder Rick you can tell us if this counts as a 250 250 that is money have you um teed that down slightly as well teed it down slightly um obviously that was a little straighter yeah but I don’t mind that right it’s that’s finding Fair it’s always going to find a fairway right Ricky what you think I like that yeah yeah a few more of those would be nice yeah and you know we’ll get Ricky in come on and you can what do you what do you need to know from Ricky to to you know hit a fairway what do you need to know do you need to he’s laughing you need know the L well like the information off the tea yeah um basically I just get up there I mean I there’s not really much conversation because at the end of the day I think mainly the conversation is the wind I want to know where the wind’s at is it you know is the fade going to kind of Hold Up Against the Wind or is it off the left and I might have to hit that Fairway finder a little low um but that’s really it the sidelines we’ve played the golf course usually you know you get there Tuesday you played it Tuesday Wednesday Thursday you’ve got a good idea of where you need to hit it um so the lines I’ve already got that taken care of it’s just a matter of hey can you carry this bunker or the wind direction slightly changed from when we played it something like that does that sound about right that sounds right unless Barrow really arrows and play a little more D we make CH I was expecting him to give me a sarcastic answer but he’s given me a but quite often I walk down the next Fairway and send him back up on the do a bit C forward yeah he’s a cad I love that so let’s see another one all right same thing Fairway finder same thing let’s go faway a little further back again slightly left I me kind of at that 150 and then just beat down on the back of it the whole goal is even if that stays straight kind of like that did it’s never going to hurt me yeah you know it’s it’s probably starting down the left edge of that Fairway and if it bleeds back in it’s right down the middle and if not it’s not in trouble and let’s talk about about strategy quickly like vower armor is obviously very tight it’s like a bowling alley true next week little bit more room you know when you go out there how do you know when you’re going to play driver and you’re just going to send one or you’re going to maybe hit your two three ey yeah here it’s a lot of just depending on where the wind direction is where the pin is cuz you could hit the Fairway here and be blocked out so um and it it can bottleneck here there’s a slight little turns in the Fairway so you’re just trying to figure out hey what’s the max distance I can hit it to and what’s the shortest I can hit it and then from there just figuring out pin position you almost to me I play the whole backwards to make it very easy um cuz you got that from you yeah if you honestly I think the best thing people do you could do is like amateurs when you get on the hole if you’re playing a tournament or you’re going to see something you go stand on the green stand on the middle of the Green Look Back Down the Fairway and you’ll it’ll be very clear where you need to hit the ball and then from there okay all I have to do is get the t- shot to that point and that’s where it’s you just try to simplify it a little bit more gain the chest exactly now final question data you know when you’re away from tournaments how much do you look at your numbers on Tech not that much I’ll be honest with you yeah occasionally I’ll pop on just to I like to do it when I’m swinging good and make sure everything is checking out versus you know hey it’s matching my I think your eyes are the best tool you can have yeah if I watch it the flight’s good the spin’s good um the movement is correct like okay now let’s double check that and then also too when you get off occasionally you know you might struggle for a little bit and you’re like hey let’s just check it it might be something stupid as hey the face is a little more closed okay well is that because it’s at a dress it’s a little more closed or VI Versa it’s open it’s set up just kind of go through the basics I’ve always thought the easiest things you could do um just line up correctly and you’ll be fine that’s what I find so interesting get literally the face feet alignment you obviously know if it’s not quite right you’ve got your drawer you’ve got your blueprint bloody amazing I allowed to swear I’ve sworn anyway thank you so much you were tied third here last year so I’m hoping for all the good vibes this week yeah me too you got the man on the bag yeah he’s done all right he’s done all right he’s been good thanks so much Brook thank you thank you appreciate it