Brooks Koepka reveals what he misses about PGA Tour after LIV Golf Orlando win

Brooks Koepka heads into The Masters after winning LIV Golf Orlando but the four-time major champion revealed what he misses about the PGA Tour.

In seven trips to Augusta National Golf Club, Brooks Koepka has built a nice resumé at The Masters. The bulked-up American has a T2 in 2019, with another Top 10 finish in 2020 and two additional finishes inside the Top 21. For his last two trips while he’s been battling injuries, though, he has missed the cut.

Now a member of LIV Golf, though, Koepka is healthy and just showed tremendous form by winning LIV Golf Orlando the week prior to The Masters. As such, he’ll be in the spotlight as a potential sleeper at Augusta National. But he also got real in revealing why the first major is important to him.

Koepka has been more open than most about his feelings after the move from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf and his most recent comments after his victory ahead of The Masters are no different. He revealed a telling quote talking about what he missed most while playing for LIV.

“I’ll be honest, I do miss playing against Rory [McIlroy], I miss playing against Scottie [Scheffler], and I’m sure they miss playing against us as well,” Koepka said, via Dylan Dethier of Golf Magazine. “That’s a fact; you always want to play against the best. That’s going to make Augusta even more special.”

Brooks Koepka misses playing against Rory, Scottie in LIV Golf as he enters The Masters

Trying to ignore facetious instincts with potential implications about what LIV Golf is in its current form in relation to Koepka’s comments, this makes a ton of sense.

Though the Saudi-backed golf league has poached some big names along with Koepka like Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and many others, the fact of the matter is that Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm — though he was not mentioned — have been the best golfers in the world for the past year.

For someone like Koepka who has been an ultra-competitive (and vocally so) player on the PGA Tour, the fact of the matter is that it makes sense that he would miss squaring off against those guys. And it also stands to reason why he’s looking forward to the chance to do so at The Masters.

It’s also interesting to see that Koepka is eyeing this after his Full Swing comments about worrying over his ability to compete with Scheffler and those guys at a place like Augusta. It seems that, despite those feelings, he is ready to prove he still can.

This just adds another interesting subplot among the hundreds on the table at The Masters this week.

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