Brooks Koepka

The next week, Koepka was tied for fourth after 54 holes at the RBC Canadian Open but a final round 74 pushed him down to a tie for 18th at the Glen Abbey Golf Course.

Brooks Koepka (born May 3, 1990) is an American professional golfer who plays in the LIV Golf League.

He formerly played on the PGA Tour.

His win tied him for the record of the lowest U.S. Open score at 16 under (tied with Rory McIlroy's 2011 record).

He qualified for the 2012 U.S. Open as an amateur, but missed the cut by six strokes.

In the summer of 2012, Koepka turned professional and began playing on the Challenge Tour in Europe.

He won his first title in September at the Challenge de Catalunya.

In 2013, he had his second victory on the Challenge Tour, winning the 2013 Montecchia Golf Open.

He followed this a month later with his third win, the Fred Olsen Challenge de España, where he set the tournament record, 260 (−24), and won by a record 10 strokes.

Three weeks later, he had his third win of the year at the Scottish Hydro Challenge.

With those three wins, he earned his European Tour card for the remainder of the 2013 season and for the full 2014 season.

The day after his third Challenge Tour win of 2013, Koepka qualified for the 2013 Open Championship.

Koepka made his debut as a member of the European Tour (he played in three events prior to promotion to membership) at the Scottish Open, finishing T12.

On the 2014 PGA Tour, Koepka played a few events on sponsor's exemptions and through open qualifying.

In his first event of the year, Koepka led after the second and third rounds of the Frys.com Open.

He finished tied for third.

At the U.S. Open, he collected a fourth-place finish, which earned him his first PGA Tour card, for the 2014–15 season, and his first Masters invitation.

On the 2014 European Tour, Koepka won the Turkish Airlines Open and finished third at the Dubai Desert Classic and Omega European Masters, and ninth at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

He ranked 8th in the 2014 Race to Dubai rankings and was named the European Tour's Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year.

He was 15th at the PGA Championship, and was nominated for the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award.

On February 1, 2015, Koepka won his first PGA Tour event, the Waste Management Phoenix Open and moved to 19th in the Official World Golf Ranking.

At the 2015 Open Championship, Koepka improved every day and a final round 68 vaulted him into a tie for 10th at the Old Course at St Andrews.

He then tied for 6th at the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and tied for 5th at the 2015 PGA Championship.

In 2015, he chose to give up his European Tour membership.

Koepka finished tied for 4th at the 2016 PGA Championship.

In November 2016, Koepka won the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament in Japan.

He won the U.S. Open in 2017 and 2018, and the PGA Championship in 2018 and 2019, becoming the first golfer in history to hold back-to-back titles in two majors simultaneously.

In 2023 Koepka won the PGA Championship for the third time, bringing his total to five majors won within six years.

He started his career on the European Challenge Tour and eventually the European Tour.

Koepka played college golf at Florida State University.

The first major championship title at the U.S. Open in 2017 at Erin Hills, Wisconsin Koepka successfully defended in 2018 at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island—the first golfer to win consecutive U.S. Opens since Curtis Strange in 1988 and 1989.

In 2017, Koepka won his first major championship by claiming the U.S. Open title at Erin Hills, Wisconsin.

Koepka had to undergo wrist surgery after the 2017 season and had hoped that his recuperation would be complete in time for the 2018 Masters Tournament but he had to withdraw, saying that he was only 80% fit.

In October 2018, Koepka became world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking and remained for 47 weeks after winning the 2018 CJ Cup.

He won the third major at the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club, shooting a major-championship-record-tying 264 over 72 holes.

Koepka's 2018 victories in the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship were the first instance of such a double since 2000 by Tiger Woods.

Koepka won his fourth major at the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black.

In 2023, he won his fifth major at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club.

Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Koepka was raised in Lake Worth, and attended Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach.

Koepka played college golf at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he won three events and was a three-time All-American.