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Brooks Koepka WITB 2025 (15th May, 2025) - What's In The Bag? The PGA Championship 2025 @ Quail Hollow
The GT3 isn’t just a club; it’s Brooks’ first line of defense against irrelevance. He still nukes this thing — when he doesn’t heel it like he’s kicking a soccer ball.
Brooks Koepka’s 2025: The Year of the Shrug Emoji
There’s a fine line between “laid-back alpha” and “guy who looks like he left his motivation in a LIV locker room,” and Brooks Koepka has been dancing across that line in 2025 like he’s auditioning for So You Think You Can Golf?
Let’s get real. The 5-time major winner has looked more like a guy trying to find his Uber outside the clubhouse than a serious contender. In a season that’s delivered more shoulder shrugs than birdies, Brooks has managed to underwhelm on all fronts — LIV events, majors, and anything resembling “form.”
After a solid 2024 where he nearly scared people at Augusta and flexed just enough to remind us he’s still that guy, 2025 Koepka is reading more like a fanfic version of himself — same biceps, none of the clutch. His best LIV finish this year? A solo 8th in Miami where he still looked like he’d rather be at an F1 paddock with Paulina.
At Augusta, the putter abandoned him like a fair-weather friend. At Pebble, he was basically a tourist. And while The Players is where guys prep for majors, Brooks looked like he was prepping for a mid-season nap.
He’s been outdrove, outclassed, and — maybe worst of all — outmuscled by guys wearing joggers and carrying 7 woods. Is this the same Koepka who gave us back-to-back PGAs with a “get in my way and I’ll bury you” glare? Or is this the new “vibes over grind” Brooks, who seems more interested in launching a tequila brand than hunting trophies?
He’ll drop an occasional quote about “peaking at the right time,” but 2025 has looked like one long slow-motion peak into irrelevance. The swagger’s still there. The game? Not so much.
Brooks at the PGA Championship: The House He Almost Owns
Let’s rewind to a simpler time — before he was chilling in the LIV bunker and dodging questions about OWGR points like they were subpoenas. The PGA Championship was where Koepka made grown men cry and club pros reevaluate their career choices.
2018 at Bellerive? Win. 2019 at Bethpage? Another win. Back-to-back PGAs like it was a casual Thursday. Brooks strutted around New York like a man who owned the entire Tri-State area. He wasn’t just winning — he was sending messages: “Try me. I dare you.”
2021 at Kiawah, he was in the mix until Phil Mickelson — a man legally eligible for the senior tour — summoned the golf gods and took the trophy. Koepka limped his way to a T2 and promptly blamed his knee, his caddie, and the alignment of the stars.
Fast-forward to the post-2021 PGA attempts, and the results have been less “Terminator” and more “why does he look bored?” In 2023 and 2024, he was mostly a footnote, the kind of guy who lurked near the cut line like he was working on his short game in stealth mode.
This year, 2025? Koepka enters Quail Hollow with the same familiar storyline: “Don’t count me out.” But if his form holds, the only thing he might win is a long stare into the abyss of “Washed or Just Chill?”
What’s In the Bag: Brooks Koepka’s 2025 Gear Setup
🧨 Driver: Titleist GT3 10°, Mitsubishi Diamana D Limited 60TX shaft
The GT3 isn’t just a club; it’s Brooks’ first line of defense against irrelevance. He still nukes this thing — when he doesn’t heel it like he’s kicking a soccer ball.
🚀 3 Wood: TaylorMade M2 Tour HL 16.5°, Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80TX shaft
Vintage Brooks vibes with this decade-old fairway weapon. Why change what worked in 2017? Loyalty or laziness? You decide.
🛠️ Utility: Nike Vapor Pro (3), Fujikura Pro Tour Spec 95X shaft
Still gaming a Nike iron. That’s right — Nike. Like a golf archaeologist clinging to lost tech. It’s either sentimental… or he just hits it stupid good.
🔩 Irons: Srixon ZX7 Mk II (4-9), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts
Classic musclebacks, perfect for that “I lift, bro” flight. Still crisp, still piercing, still capable of ripping through a Carolina breeze like a chainsaw through butter.
🧂 Wedges:
Cleveland RTZ Tour Rack Raw 46° (10M), True Temper X100
52° (10M), 56° (10M), 60° (6L), all with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts
These rusty murder tools are as gritty as Koepka’s press conference answers. No bounce experiments, no funky grinds — just pure smash-and-spin.
🎯 Putter: Scotty Cameron Teryllium Tour Newport 2 Circle T
Classic, milled, and full of rage. When it’s hot, it rolls like butter. When it’s not, he looks like he’s putting with a crowbar.
⛳ Ball: Srixon Z-Star Diamond
He says it gives him more control. Control of what — his game or his temper — is still up for debate.
🧤 Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord Midsize
Koepka’s only softness is his loyalty to midsize cords. Tacky, firm, and ready for battle — just like him (on a good day).
Koepka at Quail Hollow: Redemption or Retirement Party?
Let’s be honest: if Quail Hollow had a “Koepka Mode” setting, Brooks would need to blow on the cartridge to get it working again. Once feared at majors, he now enters the PGA Championship as a wild card wrapped in a protein shake.
The course sets up perfectly for him… in theory. Long? Check. Demanding off the tee? Check. Rough thick enough to punish the weak? Triple check. But theory only gets you so far when your short game looks like it’s powered by static electricity.
Still, Brooks loves a stage. He loves doubters. And Quail Hollow gives him both. His iron play has flashes — like, Instagram story flashes — of the old Brooks. And if he can summon his trademark swagger for four rounds, he could go full “Remember Me?” mode.
But here’s the problem: his body language lately screams “Sunday beer league” more than “final group on Sunday.” His LIV form has been dodgy, his putting streaky, and his confidence flickering like a fluorescent light at a gas station.
Will he contend? Sure, if the stars align and he shows up in full villain mode, staring daggers at Rory and taking iron off tee just to flex. But that’s a big “if.”
More likely, Koepka hangs around the cut line, blames the greens, then jets off to Miami to lift weights and launch another cryptic Instagram post.
But golf is weird. Koepka’s weirder. And if anyone can rise from the ashes of mediocrity and remind the world he’s a five-time major champ who eats pressure for breakfast, it’s this guy.
Just don’t bet your house on it. Or even your rental car.
Driver: Titleist GT3 10°, Mitsubishi Diamana D Limited 60TX shaft
3 Wood: TaylorMade M2 Tour HL 16.5°, Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80TX shaft
Utility: Nike Vapor Pro (3), Fujikura Pro Tour Spec 95X shaft
Irons: Srixon ZX7 Mk II (4-9), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts
Wedges: Cleveland RTZ Tour Rack Raw 46° (10M), 52° (10M), 56° (10M), 60° (6L), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46°), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts (52°-60°)
Putter: Scotty Cameron Teryllium Tour Newport 2 Circle T
Ball: Srixon Z-Star Diamond
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord Midsize
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