a has a few new staff members forward of his closing begin of the yr on the PGA Tour.
The five-time main winner has began engaged on his placing with a well-recognized title: Brad Faxon, the 8-time winner and NBC announcer, who has helped dozens of Tour gamers on the greens. Faxon has been Rory McIlroy’s placing coach since 2018.
Koepka additionally has a brand new full swing coach in Darren Might. Might, who additionally works with Keegan Bradley, relies at Grove XXIII in Jupiter, Fla., the place Koepka is a member.
“Darren’s watched me from afar over the previous couple of years and he’s acquired a extremely good understanding of the golf swing and the way the physique works,” Koepka advised Golfweek. “After I was annoyed and attempting to determine issues out, his was the one title that popped into my head. It’s solely been a short while, however it’s been superb.”
The pair started working collectively after Koepka’s final aggressive outing, which was the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks on the DP World Tour in October. That week in St. Andrews noticed his greatest end of the yr, a tie for sixth place. Koepka started seeing Faxon in August, shortly after failing to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs. Pete Cowen, who labored with Koepka on his full swing after the previous world No. 1 break up from Claude Harmon III in late 2024, stays his quick sport teacher.
Koepka will play subsequent week on the RSM Traditional in Sea Island, Georgia. It is going to be his first begin on the PGA Tour because the Wyndham Championship in August.
He has struggled for kind since returning to the PGA Tour in January after 4 seasons with LIV Golf. In 15 begins, he had only one top-10 end, a tie for ninth on the Cognizant Traditional in March. He had 5 different top-20 finishes, however for a lot of the yr he’s been vocally sad along with his placing.
“Completely horrendous,” was how he described his efficiency on the greens on the PGA Championship in Might.
“Zero confidence. Can’t putt,” he mentioned after lacking the playoffs.
He ranked 131st on Tour in Strokes Gained Placing for the season.
Koepka switched from the blade-style putter he’d used all through his profession to a mallet putter on the WM Phoenix Open in February. He returned to utilizing the blade after this primary session with Faxon, shortly earlier than he traveled to Europe for 3 tournaments. “We had an thought of the method we needed to do to free me up. It wasn’t in regards to the end result these three weeks however liberating myself up,” he mentioned. “And it has. It’s actually been liberating to clear loads of ideas out of my head.”
“Brooks and I’ve spent a while collectively and I’ll depart it at that,” Faxon mentioned when contacted by Golfweek.
Koepka is scheduled to play the Farmers Insurance coverage Skins Recreation on Nov. 27 and can make his debut within the PNC Championship alongside his father, Bob, in Orlando from Dec. 17-20.
Eamon Lynch is a columnist for Golfweek and a frequent contributor to the Golf Channel.
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