I don’t doubt him for stepping on the gas on the 70th hole. With Koepka over the bunker and with the opening on that green, he had to think he was going to make par. Viktor Hovland’s tournament unraveled at the 16th, when he went for the green from a poor lie in a fairway bunker, off a downslope, with a huge lip in front of him. Instead it caught the front edge and left an uphill putt, which he drained. It could’ve easily plugged in the front left bunker, leaving him short sided. He tried to hit it well right of it but hit a pretty gnarly pull you could tell by his finish that he hated it. It came on the par 312th to a front left pin that he had no business firing at. And probably 99% would roll all the way to the hole and he’d have a legit birdie chance but instead he made bogey. The shot on 9, he told me if he had a million golf balls, he’d hit the exact same shot. Koepka wound up making bogey and, as his coach Claude Harmon III told SI's Gabby Herzig, bothered him.įor Brooks,” Harmon III told Herzig, “it was probably one of the few times when he let a few things bother him on the golf course that he normally doesn’t. Jon Rahm cited this in his CBS appearance as a turning point in the round, indicative of the razor thin margins that separate birdies and bogeys on the hardest golf courses in the world. Instead it hung up and left a devilish putt off the side of a mountain. He hit what he thought was a perfect shot, expecting it to trickle down that famous slope and leave a good birdie look.
Brooks Koepka got a horrible break on the 9th hole on Sunday of the Masters. The strongest player mentally since Tiger Woods.Ģ. The guy is a terminator on the golf course.
Heck, that’s why LIV paid them so much money. The Masters proved that these guys can still play. The temptation here is to turn this into some wide-ranging LIV Golf thought, but the narrative really doesn’t change. His fifth sees him pass Rory McIlroy and move into a tie with the great Seve Ballesteros and, whether you like him or not, that’s the kind of comparisons he now warrants.
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