Perspective: Brooks Koepka has found golf’s mountaintop by stopping at a lot of places in between
By Sally Jenkins Sally Jenkins Sports columnist Email Bio Columnist May 18 at 10:00 PM FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Every so often an athlete comes along whom you want the blueprint for. Brooks Koepka is one of those, a golfer so solid and so uncracking that you would like to know how he was built, examine him for parts. What you find is this: He wasn’t made in America.
When Koepka came out of Florida State in 2012, he didn’t have the hot notice of a Jordan Spieth. No one was earmarking him for sponsor’s invitations. Back then, as he has said, “I didn’t have any status.” He played in 15 countries in a single year. He learned that a “bad lie” is not something that happens to your golf ball but rather a cheap hotel bunk. “A good bed, you learn to appreciate that,” he has said. In Kenya, a midnight cab ride that should have taken 20 minutes ended up taking him on a three-hour adventure before he found his way safely to his hotel. On his own for months at a time, he learned that “I don’t mind being alone.
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