Brooks Koepka Major Misery continues at the PGA championship

Since his emphatic victory in Oak Hill two years ago, Brooks Koepka has not published a top 10 at a big championship.

This trend will probably be continued at the PGA championship this week in Quail Hollow, where Koepka scored a 4-over 75 player during the opening round on Thursday.

Koepka, who has five big victories in his name, began his first round with a Bogey on the 10th hole, a harbinger of the upcoming things.

He made a mess around the green and couldn’t think about the putting surface. The former seminole of the state of Florida missed the fairway to the right of the tea, which was initially in a precarious position.

Then he stabilized with a bird in the mobile Par-4-14. And ended his opening nine with a bogey to the challenge of the Par-4-18., Which is historically one of the more difficult holes in Quail Hollow. He shot a 1-over 37 over his first nine holes, but the majority of his fights were just around the corner.

Koepka pulled his journey into the left Fairway Bunker on the 1st and finally let himself be with a 27-foot fighter for Par. But from there he was three-styles and set up his first double sheet of the day. In the next two holes, two more bogies follow when his five on the 3rd hole in Par-4 actually turned out to be quite impressive.

He flickered his tea shot right from Fairway, scoring a preliminary goal. But Koepkas Ball somehow stayed in the game and he managed to save a bogey next to the fence that borders the property of Quail Hollow.

He managed to make a few Par-Breaker on the Par-5 7th and Par-4 8., The latter of which only measured 342 yards on Thursday. But Koepka has another shot on the 530 yard 9. Let the hole fall, another giant of the hole that has given numerous players so far.

According to Datagolf, Koepka has reduced a total of 2.50 lines onto the field.

Of course, Koepka missed the cut at the Masters last month. That was his first missed cut in a major for almost three years: he was not able to open the weekend in St. Andrews in St. Andrews in St. Andrews at the weekend.

But Koepka, one of the stars on LIV Golf, has two top 10 tops on the Saudi Arabia on the race track supported by Saudi Arabia. In February he scored seventh place in Adelaide and then achieved a solo second place in Singapore in March and ended five blows behind Joaquin Niemann.

Since then, however, Koepka has not looked with the player who won his fifth big title in Rochester in 2023.

LIV golf fights are real

Another LIV golf star that had to fight at Quail Hollow on Thursday is Phil Mickelson. The 54-year-old signed for an 8-over 79-year-old, a bad score that included a triple bogey night on the Par-5 7. Mickelson’s discount found the stream that runs down the right side of the entire hole.

Like Koepka, Mickelson has a lot to do to get back into the mix and earn a Saturday -t -shirt. But similar to Koepka, Mickelson has taken second place in the Masters since spring 2023. He missed five cuts and did not end better than T-43, which came at the 2024 Masters tournament.

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