Brooks Koepka is the world number 1 golf player with many championships under his belt!
So let’s find out some more trivia and facts about this athlete!
- Brooks Koepka was born in May 3, 1990
- He is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour
- He became World Number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking
- After winning the 2018 CJ Cup
- He also won the U.S. Open and PGA Championship in 2018
- He successfully defended the PGA Championship in 2019
- Becoming the first golfer in history to hold two major titles back-to-back simultaneously
- He started his career on the European Challenge Tour
- And eventually the European Tour
- He played college golf at Florida State University
- Brooks Koepka claimed his first major championship at the U.S. Open in 2017 at Erin Hills, Wisconsin
- He successfully defended his title in 2018 at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island
- The first golfer to win consecutive U.S. Opens since Curtis Strange in 1988 and 1989
- He won his third major at the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club
- Shooting a major-championship-record-tying 264 over 72 holes
- His 2018 victories in the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship were the first instance of that double since Tiger Woods in 2000
- He was born in West Palm Beach, Florida
- He was raised in Lake Worth
- And attended Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach
- He played college golf at Florida State University in Tallahassee
- There he won three events
- And was a three-time All-American
- He qualified for the 2012 U.S. Open as an amateur
- But missed the cut by six strokes
- In the summer of 2012, Koepka turned professional
- And began playing on the Challenge Tour in Europe
- He won his first title in September at the Challenge de Catalunya
- In 2013, he had his second victory on the Challenge Tour
- Winning the 2013 Montecchia Golf Open
- He followed this a month later with his third win, the Fred Olsen Challenge de España
- There he set the tournament record, 260 (−24)
- And won by a record 10 strokes
- Three weeks later, he had his third win of the year at the Scottish Hydro Challenge
- With those three wins, he earned his European Tour card for the remainder of the 2013 season
- And for the full 2014 season
- The day after his third Challenge Tour win of 2013, Koepka qualified for the 2013 Open Championship
- Koepka made his debut as a member of the European Tour at the Scottish Open, finishing T12
- He played in three events prior to promotion to membership
- On the 2014 PGA Tour, Koepka played a few events on sponsor’s exemptions and through open qualifying
- In his first event of the year, Koepka led after the second and third rounds of the Frys.com Open
- He finished tied for third
- At the U.S. Open, he collected a fourth-place finish
- Which earned him his first PGA Tour card, for the 2014 – 15 season
- And his first Masters invitation
- He was 15th at the PGA Championship
- And was nominated for the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award
- On the 2014 European Tour, Koepka won the Turkish Airlines Open
- And finished third at the Dubai Desert Classic
- And Omega European Masters
- And ninth at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
- He ranked 8th in the 2014 Race to Dubai rankings
- And was named the European Tour’s Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year
- On February 1, 2015, Koepka won his first PGA Tour event, the Waste Management Phoenix Open
- And moved to 19th in the Official World Golf Ranking
- At the 2015 Open Championship, Koepka improved every day
- And a final round 68 vaulted him into a tie for 10th at the Old Course at St Andrews
- The next week, Koepka was tied for fourth after 54 holes at the RBC Canadian Open
- But a final round 74 pushed him down to a tie for 18th at the Glen Abbey Golf Course
- He then tied for 6th at the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
- And tied for 5th at the 2015 PGA Championship
- In 2015, he chose to give up his European Tour membership
- In 2017, Koepka won his first major championship by claiming the U.S. Open title at Erin Hills, Wisconsin
- His win tied him for the record of the lowest U.S. Open score at 16 under
- Tied with Rory McIlroy’s 2011 record
- Koepka had to undergo wrist surgery after the 2017 season
- And had hoped that his recuperation would be complete in time for the 2018 Masters Tournament
- But he had to withdraw
- Saying that he was only 80% fit
- He recovered to successfully defend his U.S. Open title at Shinnecock Hills
- Becoming the first player since Curtis Strange in 1989 to win consecutive U.S. Open titles
- Which has occurred only seven times
- He won his third major at the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club
- At the 2018 Ryder Cup, an errant tee shot by Koepka struck a female spectator
- And caused her right eye to explode resulting in permanent blindness
- Also at the Ryder Cup, it was rumored that Koepka and teammate Dustin Johnson got into a feud over some personal issues
- But Koepka denied these claims
- On October 21, 2018, Koepka won the CJ Cup
- And the win moved him to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking
- On May 19, 2019, Koepka won the 2019 PGA Championship
- The first to successfully defend the PGA Championship
- Since Tiger Woods in 2007
- Koepka has a younger brother
- His name is Chase
- He is also a professional golfer
- He is 6ft and weights 205 lb
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