LIV Golf Singapore results: Brooks Koepka wins fourth, finds his next match with the PGA Championship
Only three golfers have won four or more PGA Championships. Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen. After his victory at LIV Singapore on Sunday, Brooks Koepka looks ready to make a bid to turn that three-man club into four.
Koepka, who said earlier this week that his time between December and the Masters felt like a waste, went out and shot a 3-under 68 in the LIV Singapore final to edge Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman by a margin. number two and Talor Gooch. three to secure the fourth LIV Golf victory of his career.
A mildly impressive part of Koepka’s career is his ability to win around the world.
He has now won professional tournaments in the following countries.
- Italy
- Spain
- Türkiye
- Singapore
- Saudi Arabia
- USA
- Scotland
- Japan
Of course, the more impressive part of Koepka’s career is the fact that he has five major championships and is currently in the hunt for a sixth, which would tie him with Nick Faldo and put him in one of the Arnold Palmer. Three of them – Bellerive in 2018, Bethpage in 2019 and Oak Hill in 2023 – are already PGA and he is one of the favorites (though at 20-1, it’s barely short enough) to repeat as he did in 2019.
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about his win this week is how much he seemed to be looking from the start.
“Honestly, I couldn’t find any holes,” he said in a news conference earlier this week when asked about his putting. “There’s something we just did so we’re trying to figure it out.”
“The ball didn’t go in the hole…” he added. “I don’t know how else to say it. I felt like I was hitting good putts, but they kept burning my lips. Eventually, it starts to wear on you after a while. All you have is What you can do is hit a good putt and see where it goes from there.
They fell heavily over the next three rounds as Koepka opened the scoring at 66-64 on a golf course he felt he could take advantage of with his putting and then closed with Sunday’s 68 included just one bogey. It’s a master class in how to win a professional golf tournament.
“I feel fine,” he said at the opening of the press conference. “I feel a lot better than last week. Things are getting closer for me. Like I said before, I think in a press conference, I felt like there were no results. It’s improving but the result is not.” Not there. It’s nice to see some results and hard work paying off.”
He added that this result really started to reveal itself a week ago at LIV Adelaide, where he finished T9.
“I thought it was just a putt that started to go around the corner,” he said. “I started to see it coming out of the right window. If I didn’t see it coming out of the right window, I’d find it quite difficult. But it’s nice to see it start where I want it and the ball is moving move inside.” right direction. I don’t know if it will fade or last for about a month. But I had bad habits. All the same. with me.”
Koepka will now turn his attention to Valhalla and the PGA Championship which he will attempt to win for the fourth time. Finding his form before this tournament is something he is used to doing. His three wins all preceded a top-five finish in his most recent start. And while he doesn’t necessarily believe that a player should find form when participating in such an event, there’s no harm in that.
“I still have the same expectations every time I tee it up and that is to win,” he said of Valhalla. “Those are my expectations, what I want to do. A result really doesn’t mean anything in the scheme of things. In two weeks, a lot can change. Yes, that helps, but at the same time, I’ve seen guys miss out and then win and then win and not play the next week.
Ripper GC won its second consecutive team event at 32 under by three shots over Fireballs and Cleeks.
