PGA Tour’s Website Downplays Brooks Koepka’s PGA Championship Victory

Members of the PGA Tour were gracious in defeat and in praising LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka for capturing the PGA Championship on Sunday.

The same cannot be said for the websites for the PGA Tour and PGA of America, which hosts the major tournament.

A look at the top of the PGA Tour’s site on Monday morning featured cult hero Michael Block along with stories on Scottie Scheffler regaining the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking and a preview of this coming weekend’s Charles Schwab Challenge. The only reference to Koepka was on the leaderboard to the right of the top stories.

At PGA.com, the main story was also on Block. In fact, if you searched the entire home page for a reference to Koepka via the Ctrl+F shortcut, the results read “0/0.”

To the PGA Tour’s credit, they did send a tweet to acknowledge Koepka’s win.

Brooks Koepka wins the PGA Championship for his fifth major title. pic.twitter.com/fG7YqHvWgn

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 21, 2023

And Block was a huge story—his slam-dunk hole-in-one dominated the headlines. Both Koepka and Block embraced after the final hole.

Brooks Koepka to Michael Block: “I hear you’re buying drinks.”

The two champs of the weekend. pic.twitter.com/1NBzX7azGm

— Golf on CBS ⛳ (@GolfonCBS) May 21, 2023

Meantime, after the win, Koepka entered a new pantheon of golf greats, becoming just the fifth golfer to win at least five majors.

Brooks Koepka is the 20th player in men’s golf history to win 5 major championships.

He joins Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson as the only players to do it in the last 30 years. pic.twitter.com/AA0eHj7HgG

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) May 21, 2023

Defending champion Justin Thomas was among both the PGA and LIV golfers who congratulated Koepka on the victory.

Brooks dominated this day. Guy knows how to play in majors, incredibly impressive! Congrats to @BKoepka and his team on another 🏆

— Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas34) May 21, 2023

After a second and first in the two majors this year, Koepka is at +1400 at DraftKings to win the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club in California. Only Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, and Rory McIlroy have better odds to win.

Cover Image Via PGATOUR.com