Brooks Koepka: "I've played so bad lately"
Brooks Koepka is desperate to find his form before he defends the US PGA Championship in a few weeks time.
Brooks Koepka is hoping for a much-improved week at the 3M Open in Minnesota, with the four-time major champion struggling to find his form since returning from injury.
After undergoing knee surgery back in October last year, Koepka was on the sidelines for three months and has failed to find his major-winning form since returning to action.
Koepka's only top 10 finish of 2020 came at the RBC Heritage back in June and he followed that up with a missed cut at the Workday Charity Open, before shooting an 8-over par final round at Muirfield Village in the Memorial Tournament to finish T62.
"I just need to play good," Koepka said. "I've played so bad lately. Yeah, just trying to find things. Every week I feel like the results aren't there, but it's getting better and better.
"My good shots are good, but I've just got to bring that bottom level up. I've hit some real costly shots. I seem to miss it short-sided every time and that's been kind of the downfall of why I haven't played well.
"I missed it in very costly spots and just trying to figure out why that is. If I can bring the misses up, I'll be fine."
The 3M Open will be the third consecutive PGA Tour event that Koepka plays in, with the 30-year-old also plaing in the next two events as he looks to defend the WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational, before heading to Harding Park to defend the US PGA Championship, a major he has won the past two years in-a-row.
Koepka has his work cut out if he is to make the Tour Championship at the end of the season as the American currently sits in 154th in the FedExCup standings, hence his tournament-packed schedule.
"Right now, if things ended today, I'm not even in the play-offs, so I need to step it up and start playing well and get back to what I know I can do," Koepka added.
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"By the end of the PGA [Championship], I was going to see how I feel. I probably have to go back to Challenge Tour days playing this many in a row, going five to seven weeks in a row and then trying to take a week off.
"That was, what, six, seven years ago, so it's been a while since I played this many in a row. But, at the same time, I've had some weekends off, so it hasn't been too bad yet. Just frustration, playing bad.
"Every round I get to play I'm just trying to find that little something. Everybody knows that golf's that game where you make one good swing and everything clicks and it's like all right, back to normal, so [I'm] just trying to find that and keep battling through it."
