LIV Golfer Brooks Koepka pairs up with Patrick Cantlay for Open Championship after bashing PGA Tour player for ‘slow play’
After slamming Patrick Cantlay and his group for slow passage of play at the Masters, Brooks Koepka has now bein paired up with him at the Open Championship.
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Brooks Koepka (L) and Patrick Cantlay (R) [Pic Credit: Bunkered/Golf Digest]
The preparation for the Open is well an truly underway. The final major tournament of golf is just a couple of days. Players are now getting ready, hoping to deliver their very best. For the first two rounds, players are paired up in a group of three. The Open organizers have now paired up LIV Golfer Brooks Koepka along with PGA tour players Patrick Cantlay and Hideki Matsuyama.
The current PGA champion will now have to play alongside these two for the first two days. The thing that makes this pairing interesting is that Koepka slammed Cantlay and his group for “slow play” at the Masters. The 33-year-old was paired up with Jon Rahm for the final round and he ripped Cantlay for his speed. “Yeah the group ahead of us was brutally slow,” Koepka said during the tournament.
Cantlay did acknowledge the comments of Koepka. He mentioned how groups ahead of them were taking long time to hit their shots which eventually delayed the whole tournament. A few days later, Cantlay made a hole-in-one and shared the footage on his social media accounts. He gave a cheeky caption to it titled “Playing faster”.
Perhaps it was written in testing for Koepka to encounter this situation. He will now have to wait for Cantlay and Matsuyama to finish up their play before he can move forward. How will Kopeka handle this duo would be an interesting watch for the fans.
Brooks Koepka opens about friendship with Rory McIlroy
The year 2022 brought a major change in the sport of golf. The emergence of LIV Golf followed by the backing of the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) shocked the world. Several big names joined the breakaway league and saw their relationships been severed. Brooks Koepka was also one of those who jumped ships. However, he has now insisted that his friendship with Rory McIlroy has not been affected by it.
The North Irishman has made his thoughts clear regarding the LIV league. McIlroy recently mentioned how he would rather call it a day on his career rather than playing for the breakaway tour. The Scottish Open champion had hoped for LIV players to be punished despite the shocking golf merger.He though has a soft spot for Koepka. McIlroy congratulated him on his PGA Championship victory and claimed he is only LIV player deserving a spot for Ryder Cup.
Ahead of the Open championship, Koepka has now opened up about their relationship. The American international informed how they have had conversations outside of golf and practiced together. “We’ve talked about a bunch of things, life just off golf course, and he’s told me some stuff that’s gone on with him,” Koepka said. He added how he appreciated McIlroy opening up about his life and claimed “we’ve always been friends.”
Speaking on his personal life, the five-time major champion admitted that he is nervous as his wife Jena Sims is pregnant. The duo are expecting their first child and the golfer is both excited and nervous for this new challenge.
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