Brooks Koepka Explains The One Thing He Has Over Other Players

Brooks Koepka has recently starred in Dylan Dethier’s ‘Warming Up with Brooks Koepka’ video that sheds light into the five-time Major winner’s mental approach to the game.

With arguably the best mindset in golf, he has etched himself into the history books as the best player of this generation, with three PGA titles and two U.S. Opens to show for his efforts in a seven-year span.

During the Majors, he became a different animal from 2017 onwards, always threatening on the Sunday and not afraid to stare down any rival golfers in his path.

With swagger, commanding ball striking, and lethal flat stick from ten feet and in, it was a formidable combination. Injuries let him down throughout the pandemic, but he regained his status as a major killer by winning the 2023 PGA.

In the interview Koepka is seen talking about making golf a reaction sport, keeping everything simple, focusing on looking at his target and instinctively making the shot, trusting his process.

In DJ-like fashion (they have both trained and worked with Claude Harmon III for some time) he says that over the shot, he thinks about nothing. Compare this to the Matt Fitzpatrick database approach, you’ve got the full spectrum of mental approaches to this fascinating game.

Brooks Koepka has arguably the best mental game in golf. His secret?

“I don’t think of anything,” he said at first.

Turns out there’s a LOT more to it. This got good.

Warming Up with @BKoepka: https://t.co/N03GAeNz27

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— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) April 3, 2024

Brooks says the warm-up doesn’t matter to him at all, literally using it as a way to get loose, citing times where he had a terrible warm up and went out to win the tournament.

He mentioned your eye being the best measure of performance, being a complete feel player. He wears out his odd numbered irons because he always uses 9,7 and 5 iron in his warm-up. He’s an ‘odd’ guy.

Koepka appears eloquent when talking about the small changes that can affect the path of the club and resulting spin on the ball, but Brooks has always been more of a jock than a brainiac like Bryson or Fitzy. He considers an extra waggle from a competitor a ‘tell’ showing a lack of confidence in their game.

Stand up, don’t think and pull the trigger. What will be will be, it is what it is.

These phrases embody the Brooks Koepka model that will be studies for years to come.

He looks to have been hitting the weights in the video, too.

Watch the full interview with Brooks Koepka here.

Cover Image via Bleacher Report