Brooks Koepka has had plenty to celebrate in his professional career, including his five major championships.
He had nine victories in total on the PGA Tour before switching to LIV Golf, where he has won another five events recently.
However, like any golfer, the American has also experienced his fair share of down moments over the years.
Koepka recently spoke about the angriest he’s ever been at his caddie, Ricky Elliott, albeit they see the funny side now.
Brooks Koepka’s angriest moment with caddie Ricky Elliott
Koepka was asked to recall the moment he was most annoyed with his caddie, and the conversation which followed didn’t disappoint.
He said: “Memphis in 2018. I didn’t speak to him. We got into an argument, it was a lot of… it would have been great microphoned up during that two-minute stretch. I think I blamed him for hitting the wrong club even though I hit a good shot.”
Elliott, sat next to the three-time PGA Champion, didn’t leave it there and instead fully explained what happened between the pair.
“It started on the holes previous to that. It was [moaning], not my day, the usual stuff, and then he hit a shot down the middle. It probably should have been a three wood, but he hit driver and ended up behind a tree.
“And he was like, ‘what are we doing here,’ the usual stuff caddies get all the time. It was just a combination of the last hour, I suppose. It just slipped out. I just said, could you shut the f—- up?
“It was a combination of about an hour, and I thought even if he fires me it might be a good way to get out of here. Anyway, he chipped it up within 10, so we never said anything for the rest of the day.”
But what makes the story even better is that Koepka proceeded to play extremely well despite not talking to his caddie.
Elliott added: “It was more to do with the next hole he drove it down the middle, and it was about a seven iron, and I muttered 180 or something and shook the bag. He has picked a seven iron out and hit it to that.
“The next hole is a par three, quite a tricky one, and it looks like a wedge into 150. He’s hit it into that. Birdie. Birdies the next. Pars. Maybe birdies a couple more. And we still haven’t said anything.
“I was like, I’m not going to break the mould now, whenever these guys are going well, you don’t change what’s happening. You don’t start telling jokes when the guy has just birdied five in a row, you just keep miserable.”
It was obviously tense between the pair at the time, but it’s nothing more than a laughing matter now, as they remain close friends.
Ricky Elliott caddied for Matt Fitzpatrick at the Masters
Koepka isn’t the only professional player for whom Elliott has caddied. After giving up on making it as a golfer himself, Elliott initially worked with European Tour winner Maarten Lafeber.
The Northern Irishman later carried the bags for 2003 Open champion Ben Curtis, winning the 2012 Texas Open together.
Elliott first teamed up with Koepka one year later, but he caddied for then-amateur Matt Fitzpatrick at the 2014 Masters Tournament.
Fitzpatrick has since changed caddies again, leaving Billy Foster recently, while Koepka and Elliott are still going strong more than a decade later.
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