A fiery, harsh, marked by Brooks Koepka is back to US Open

Oakmont, Pa.-Don’t look now, but the fiery, harsh, marked, on a mission Brooks Koepka has arrived at the 125th US Open.

Do you remember this version, right? He has five main titles. Brashness. Swagger. The test. that Guy just shot with two under 68 at US Open on Thursday. He finished Birdie-Birdie to become only one of a handful of players to end up in red numbers, and he starts on Friday two of the 18 holes held by Jj spaun And with only two players in front of him.

And, if you are crossing the front page of the leadership table on Thursday night, is the name of Koepka that may be the most scared universally. Remember those days? It used to be always like that – the great killer who came back to the weak. And based on his game AND Press Conference Thursday here in Oakmont, that guy is back.

First, let’s recover that famous press conference in front of the tournament in front of the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black. Koepka explained why he believed diplomas are easier to win than PGA Tour’s normal events.

“There are 156 in the field, so you understand at least 80 of them I will simply beat,” he said. “From there, you figure about half of them will not play well from there, so you’re in about 35. And then from 35, some of them, the pressure will reach them. This just leaves you with some others, and you just have to beat those boys.”

Spoiler: He won that week.

He was asked about that quote on Thursday if he still thinks that way.

“I mean, I’m not talking about it, you guys talk about it,” he said.

“It was your quote, however,” the reporter said.

“It was,” Koepka said. “I said once, and now everyone repeats it.”

He smiled, kinda. now THIS The guy we remember!

This is the version that angered Bryson Dechambeau during their quarrel, making some fans love him and others deceive it. He was stubborn and open. He was also right safe. He collected big titles and went to his business ready to fill in the closet today.

But that guy, that Koepka, has not been about the last two years.

Koepka was linked for the second in Masters 2023 and won the PGA 2023 championship a month later. Since then, he has not been many factor in the last eight diplomas, the events he lives in.

Last year, it ended between 26 and 45 in all four. This year he lost cutting in both Masters and Championship PGA. It was only the second time he has lost the main return cuts to his career. The only other time it happened was in 2012-13, in his first two main beginnings of his career, which were separated for more than a year.

He admitted on Thursday the last two lost cuts have haunted it.

“I would say from the first weekend to April to last week, you didn’t want to be around me,” he said. “It took me nuts. He ate me. I haven’t been happy. It was very irritating. … I wouldn’t have wanted to be around me.”

On Thursday, Koepka played open, boring, efficient Golf Open, the exact type of golf he knows how to execute better than most people here. That bird 4 and made Bogeys at 10 and 14, but back-back birds at 17 and 18 started it on the steering board.

“Nice good to unite a good round,” Koepka said. “It’s been a while.”

Has been. Koepka has not won in Liv this season, though he won twice last year. But, as he said before, there are degrees that really matter. And in these events he was Mia. He is aware of that too.

He recently said he entered some bad habits and shaky positions, but he worked hard on it and spent considerable time last week working with Pete Cowen (short game) and Jeff Pierce (deciding).

He said Cowen and Pierce “were on me very well” last week. It happened again in a bunker Oakmont on Monday, when Koepka said Cowen “rebuked” it once again. (Koepka joked that Justin Thomas, who was nearby, heard them all and brought it later that night. “He was like, I was worried; your head was down,” Koepka said.)

Koepka said he was not happy about the fierce love, but he also said it may have been what he had to hear at the time. At that time it was apparently worked on Thursday.

“I don’t like to have people” yes “around me,” he said. “I just want someone to tell me the truth. Tell me what’s going on. What they see. If I start to swing from being brooks koepka, then I want someone to call me.”

It’s early but THAT Brooks Koepka has arrived at Oakmont.