Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Brooks Koepka went into 2025 having not missed the cut in successive major appearances in well over a decade.
Brooks Koepka was, for so long, the man for the big stage. The 35-year-old has won three regular PGA Tour events during his career, as well as one WGC title. Meanwhile, he has five major titles to his name.
Koepka had not missed a second major cut in a row since the 2013 Open Championship. However, that run came to an end after the PGA Championship this past week. The American also did not feature over the weekend at The Masters earlier in the year.
Meanwhile, Koepka is 12th in the standings on LIV Golf this year. He finished second in Singapore, while he only has one more top 10. Given the lack of depth on LIV, that is a particularly concerning run of form.
Brooks Koepka’s chances of making the Ryder Cup team assessed
Koepka made a bit of history in 2023 as he became the first LIV Golf player to feature in the Ryder Cup. He had won his fifth major title earlier in the year.
He went on to win 1.5 points from his three matches. However, his time in Rome will be remembered for the 9&7 defeat he suffered alongside Scottie Scheffler on Saturday morning.
And speaking on The Wagyu Filet Show, Johnson Wagner admitted that he does not expect Koepka to be involved with Keegan Bradley‘s team later this year.
“It’s shocking we’re not talking about Brooks Koepka. I know he made the last team based on his win at Oak Hill. He was the seventh player, he dropped from sixth to seventh at the very end, but captain Johnson still picked him,” he said.
“We’ve only got the one American LIV player on our team, and I don’t think Brooks would be mad that we didn’t put him in there. He has not done anything to deserve being in that conversation really the last year and a half.”
How the American players reportedly felt about Brooks Koepka playing in the 2023 Ryder Cup
From the outside, Koepka appears to have done a better job than most of remaining friendly with some of the PGA Tour stars. Perhaps rightly or wrongly, it does appear that Koepka is not as attached to LIV Golf as some of the other players who made the jump.
Koepka admitted LIV is behind where he expected it to be earlier this year.
But it has been claimed that some American players were not best pleased to have Koepka on the Ryder Cup team two years ago.
Obviously, a lot of stances have softened since then, and there looks set to be a much greater LIV presence at Bethpage, with the likes of Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton making the jump since Rome.
But it is hard to see Koepka doing enough to force his way back into the conversation. At the very least, he probably needs to win two times in the months ahead to put himself back in the mix.
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