The smart way in which Brooks Koepka used his golf glove … to repair his handle

Golf is crazy, says Brooks Koepka. He also has proof.

He looks at his year. He says he didn’t play well. But sometimes he has that. Take the Majors. Koepka missed the cut at the Masters, the PGA Championship and the Open Championship – and respectably bound for the 12th in the US Open.

“It felt good,” said Koepka, “and then it just disappeared completely.

“Ebbs and streams.”

Then there is his putter. He said he was struggling with it. Especially the 8-legs. The “bread and butter” of his career, as he called them. But the mistakes are snowball.

“That means you have to get close,” said Koepka. “It puts a little more pressure on your irons. Then you have to get it in the fairway.

“And at that moment it just goes through the entire game.”

Koepka was talking to the From the ball group Prior to the Amgen Irish Open of this week, where the five -time big winner will play this week. The hope is to regroup, he said. In three weeks he will not play in the Ryder Cup after having made four consecutive performances, but he is hopeful to play again in the biennial event in two years when it is played in Adare Manor, about two hours west of this week’s event. And there is some optimism. The least adjustments after spotting the smallest things did it.

Important for Koepka has been attitude, alignment and grip. The basis. Or otherwise set, he said he is trying not to think about things. “If you play your best, you don’t think about anything,” said Koepka to take the ball off. “You just go up and hit the ball. You don’t think:” Oh, I have to start with this line, do this, or my swing must be shorter, come in a little more or outside. ” You just get up and touch it. It happened around the middle of the year.

After seeing something on his golf glove.

“We just looked at the grip who tried to find out what was going on,” Koepka told the ball, “only because the club never felt pretty good in my hands and just noticed that it was a bit too palm heavy. You could see it in the wear of the gloves. My thumb was just a bit going on.

“So just notice that such things have helped a little.”

So Koepka will work. In the video he said that he will play two more events this year, then his LIV golf schedule starts again in 2026. He will also view the Ryder Cup.

Was he disappointed not to be chosen in the American team? Koepka said he wasn’t. He blamed his game. He also did not blame LIV, where tournaments do not count Ryder Cup -classification.

“I did it myself, so it’s nothing I am not aware of,” said Koepka. “Don’t shy away from it. It’s just a bad timing. You have one year, but if it’s the year after the Ryder Cup, it makes it a lot easier to catch up.

“But yes, I think that only the situation I am on LIV and then not playing well is – I don’t think LIV had anything to do with the fact that I was not in the team, but it was more the timing of the year and just trying to get that ball rolling.”

However, Koepka did advise the visiting European Ryder Cup team, which is expected to play for an enthusiastic crowd at Bethpage Black. And you can hear that, together with watching the entire video of the ball, by clicking here.

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