{"id":1144367,"date":"2026-08-12T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1144367\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:25:26","slug":"brad-faxon-insists-he-would-love-a-conversation-with-brooks-koepka-i-think-hes-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1144367\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Faxon insists he would love a conversation with Brooks Koepka, &#8216;I think he&#8217;s upset&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooks Koepka\u2019s return to the PGA Tour has been underwhelming to say the least.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Huge excitement surrounded Koepka\u2019s PGA Tour return back in January of this year, after he left LIV Golf in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 36-year-old Floridian never really got out of second gear, and he has endured a really challenging season on the whole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/brooks-koepka\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"98721\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks Koepka<\/a> simply hasn\u2019t performed to the levels that we all know he is capable of on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/pga-tour\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"98401\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2268654423-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks Koepka on the sixth green during the second round of the Texas Children's Houston Open\" class=\"wp-image-2540100\" \/>Photo by Mike Mulholland\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>His best finish was a tie for 9th at the Cognizant Classic back in March, and he missed out on the FedEx Cup playoffs after finishing in a tie for 68th last week at the Wyndham Championship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/brooks-koepka-angry-after-missing-the-pga-tour-playoffs-i-think-thats-very-pathetic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koepka angrily labelled his failure to qualify for the playoffs as \u2018pathetic\u2019<\/a> on Sunday, after his season ended in disappointing fashion at the Wyndham.<\/p>\n<p>And Brad Faxon has been discussing the five-time major champion\u2019s major weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Faxon insists he\u2019d love a conversation with Brooks Koepka<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/sky-sports-golf-podcast\/id1198293635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sky Sports Golf Podcast<\/a>, the former PGA Tour player turned putting coach was asked about Koepka\u2019s struggles since returning to the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know Brooks extremely well, but I see him quite a bit and have a good relationship with him,\u201c Faxon said.<\/p>\n<p>MORE BROOKS KOEPKA STORIES<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I see things in this game that sometimes surprise me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Scottie Scheffler was struggling with his putting, he went to putting coach, Phil Kenyon, who has helped so many great players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at first, I was like, \u2018ooh, the personality match here of, you know, what I see with Scottie Scheffler and his coach, Randy Smith\u2019. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2282240602-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks Koepka lines up a putt during the first round of the US Open\" class=\"wp-image-2580837\" \/>Photo by Andrew Redington\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look too technical, they\u2019re not using all kinds of data to help him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he (Kenyon) has really helped him with his putting. I mean, he\u2019s become a top putter now, and it\u2019s remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, you know, for Brooks, he\u2019s had one guy down here named Jeff Pierce, that\u2019s been his guy, and then, I think when he went off to LIV, maybe those guys weren\u2019t as available or something happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then all of a sudden, he\u2019s switching putters and switching coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done that as much as anybody as well, and I\u2019d love to have a conversation with Brooks to just talk about how he thinks.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Brad Faxon says Brooks Koepka is \u2018upset\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Koepka\u2019s return to the PGA Tour clearly hasn\u2019t worked out as he had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Just one top-10 finish in 16 starts is nowhere near good enough for a player of his calibre.<\/p>\n<p>And Faxon highlighted how Koepka\u2019s frustrations with his putting have led to his poor form this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I watched his interview afterwards,\u201c Faxon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, he practices at the same place Rory McIlroy likes to play, at The Grove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I think he\u2019s upset, and most likely because of how he\u2019s putted the ball. He keeps saying how well he\u2019s hitting it tee to green, and putting has become very hard for him.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Some time off will probably do Brooks Koepka the world of good now.<\/p>\n<p>It could be argued that he is suffering from paralysis by analysis when it comes to his putting.<\/p>\n<p>A new, more natural approach to putting during the off-season and on into 2027 may well be exactly what Koepka needs.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Brooks Koepka\u2019s return to the PGA Tour has been underwhelming to say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1144368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4106],"tags":[311218,33197,2826,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1144367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-brad-faxon","tag-brooks-koepka","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117082530261605052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}