Five-time Major champion Brooks Koepka feels liks his game is in great shape with just one missing piece he’s hoping to find this week in Houston to ensure he can challenge at The Masters.
Koepka’s PGA Tour return made big headlines but he’s gone slightly under the radar recently as he reintegrated and worked on his game – especially his putting.
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He’s fixed a recent issue with his driver and despite sitting in 127th in putting on the PGA Tour Koepka says a switch of flat stick this season is starting to pay off.
“I feel like I’ve been playing really well,” said Koepka. “Scoring just hasn’t quite been there, but ball-striking is really well, putting’s starting to come around, feeling really well with that.
“I like the way the game’s trending. Sometimes it’s not always about the finishes, it’s about how I feel, and I feel very good, very confident going into Augusta in a few weeks.”
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Koepka admitted that his putting had reached breaking point leading to the change to the popular TaylorMade Spider and a cracked driver that cost him crucial shots at the Valspar recently has also been sorted.
“It’s been two-plus years of poor putting and poor mechanics. Just reset all that,” Koepka added.
“Obviously the putter change, and then a lot of mechanical work. Spent quite a bit of time with Mike just grinding on it and really fine tuning everything.
“The strokes gained for the iron play, the iron play’s been great. Driver wasn’t great, but I think that driver head was a little mashed. We checked it out on TrackMan yesterday and it was a bit spinny, so I don’t know if it had a little crack in it or something was going wrong with it.
“We’ve got that sorted now. That cost me easily six, seven shots last week.
“The putting was a huge…
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