In the Championship PGA, Brooks Koepka tries to find his previous

Charlotte, NC – It was not long ago that this would have been the Brooks Koepka scene.

The big champion five times prevailed the biggest golf events for the best part of a decade. From 2017 to 2023, Koepka won three PGA championships, two opened Americans and recorded six more Top-Pesi conclusions in diplomas. It did not end out of the first four in a major in 2019. His only year, 2022, was due to a knee injury.

Slim it Was Great game hunter.

At the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black, Koepka explained why he believes “Majes are easier to win” because he just has to beat a handful of players that both will play well on the big scene and do a good job to stay calm in chaos. Koepka rarely made a big mistake in a major. He would make straight paths, play in the middle of the greens and get up on the board, while others tried before giving the murder hit on the weekend.

“I think the big thing that shares me is my ability to close and go somewhere where I think many boys can’t go,” Koepka said last year in Liv Singapore before the PGA 2024 championship.

SOMETHING seem to be different now.

As he won twice in Liv last year, since Koepka Win at the PGA 2023 championship in OAK HillIt is not better than T17 in a major, which came in 2023 US Open. Last year, the T26 of Koepka in the PGA Championship was his best result. He lost the cut on this year’s masters when He made a mess of the 18th hole Friday to go from safe inside to run home.

Koepka left at 7:38 am on Thursday with Rickie Fowler and Shane Lowry. He reached the 10th Tee in a few slight strokes and a “let’s go brooks!” By an early growing fan.

The steel look that was once over big championships was the same. The intimidating gracia has not changed. But his game-the closed game, without error, of the main test-it was more difficult to find.

Koepka pushed his opening straight and was punched. Its third in par-5 rolls to the front green right. He ran his fourth of the hole past and lost his money for an open slap.

That kind of mistake from the koepka to a big stage was once a shock to the system. He once enjoyed watching others made big mistakes while sailing around the boiler, appearing uncontrollably from the moment.

It was then

Now, Brooks Koepka feels different. Like someone by desperately trying to recover a feeling that came naturally. Trying to rebuild a flame without an accelerator.

You know that the main wars concern it, although his behavior in the course may not give up any suggestions. He spoke about the will to win a couple of years ago when he was in “full pace”. This desire directs every athlete; Koepka is no different.

He played his first four holes in one above before making a bird in the short par-4 14 when the approximate to the green left kept his ball to go to the water. Koepka showed little emotions during a nine opening that included a distribution of weak iron shooting and lost strokes. He just broke the character when he briefly kept his son along the rope line after hitting his tee in par-3 17.

He lost a 6 -meter kick for the first on 18 and then with three strokes from 27 meters to double to no. 1. He climbed to tee at no. 2 and lowered it left. He tried to play a low punch under the tree for his second, but ended up shooting at some branches. Another UN-Coepka-like mistake led to another noise. He blocked his shot at number 3 on a fence and in an area where the equipment trucks are parked. He received a free fall for a temporary immovable obstacle, but Bogey did.

Even while grazing ends and shots sailed wide, the patented view of the great Koepka championship never broke down. The disappointment that was probably bubbled hardly becoming visible. The armature with which he had covered himself, starting with his Open Open 2017 victory, is still there, but the splendor has been replaced by a rust coat, something that the main killer of the game has desperately tried to shed.

Koepka made birds back-back in seven and eight. A recent noise at No.9 ended his round of opening. Last conclusion: five fairways hit, six greens in regulations, 29 putts, three cribs, five bogeys, one double and it looks like an eighth direct as a non-factor.

Koepka quickly signed his outcome card and passed beyond the media without stopping. There was no need. Koepka has always preferred to allow his game to make talks.

A four-on 75 said everything he had to say.