Brooks Koepka will be a man on a mission at The Masters in 2025 as he looks to draw level with Phil Mickelson and make it six major wins.
Koepka has been one of the major success stories of the last decade in golf and while his move to LIV Golf was controversial to some, he has little to prove really.
However, while Koepka does have those five majors, he’s yet to win at The Masters and after struggling around Augusta National in 2024, it remains to be seen how he’ll tackle the course in 2025.
Still, Koepka knows how to win and despite his 2024 struggles, he’s looking to put it firmly behind him.
Brooks Koepka shares why the 2024 Masters went badly
Koepka was speaking to the press ahead of playing in LIV Miami this weekend and he got onto the subject of The Masters.
Naturally, he was asked about his effort in 2024 which saw finish down in 45th place and Koepka has admitted that on the whole, his golf game was not in the best place.
“I mean, I still do the same prep work, still the same thing I’ve done my entire career. I feel like overall as my major career over the last, I don’t know, 10 years has been pretty solid, like last year I don’t think I played very good just all throughout.
“The whole year wasn’t quite as consistent as I wanted, and I think the bigger the event, the more pressure, the cracks kind of show, and it just wasn’t my year. But trying to fix that. I feel like my game is in a lot better shape right now, and we’ll see where it’s at, obviously, next week.”
Why Brooks Koepka feels his 2024 Masters fell apart
Despite answering the initial question on 2024 overall, Koepka was pressed further on exactly why he felt his efforts at Augusta led to nothing.
Koepka ended up at plus nine for the week, some 20 shots shy of Scottie Scheffler at the top and according to Koepka, there was a period in his middle rounds where it just went wrong.
“Yeah, I just always last year felt like there was always a four- or five-hole stretch that really just threw me out of the golf tournament,” he continued.
“I don’t know whether that was focus, but there was, I think, maybe the middle of the round at Augusta, I think the first day kind of threw me off, but it wasn’t anything the PGA — I think during the third round or something like that, second, third round, it was six holes from 10 to 15.
“Other than that, I would have been right there. But yeah, I just couldn’t piece together 18 holes last year of solid golf, and that was kind of my missing piece.”
Koepka failed to finish inside the top 25 in any major in 2024 and will be hoping to at least right that wrong when he competes at Augusta next week.
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