equipment free agent<\/a>.<\/p>\nKoepka has entered the brave new world of autonomy back on the PGA Tour after splitting with his longtime suppliers Srixon. He won the most recent of his five major titles \u2013 the 2023 PGA Championship \u2013 with Srixon hardware, along with five LIV Golf victories. <\/p>\n
Dunlop Sports, the company that controls Srixon,\u00a0said the Japanese brand and Koepka have \u201cmutually agreed to conclude their endorsement partnership, effective immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s different,\u201d Koepka said, speaking about the split for the first time at the Myrtle Beach Classic. \u201cI had a great time with Srixon. They were fantastic. Four years, it flew by. Yeah, it was great. But, yeah, just going to get back to where I was I felt like. I\u2019m trying to think, \u201917 and pretty much \u201921 I was a free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Koepka then suggested that the equipment world has moved on without him having spent his past few seasons on the breakaway LIV league, hinting that new gear has not always been easily accessible.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last few years, there\u2019s been no equipment trucks,\u201d he admitted. \u201cThere\u2019s been no anything, so I don\u2019t really know what\u2019s out there,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven\u2019t given it too much thought as of right now just because it\u2019s so fresh. Just trying to focus on just going to play good golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
At each of its tournaments in the US, LIV does have an equipment facility which enables players options from all of the major equipment brands, with some of their staff also on site for additional support. But the offerings are not as expansive across its 14 tournaments as the full-field events on the PGA Tour. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of eye-opening when you come back,\u201d Koepka said, \u201cbecause I don\u2019t think people realize that, at least I didn\u2019t \u2014 how much stuff is out there and the opportunity you might have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka has spoken out for the first time after his equipment deal came to a surprise end\u2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-656349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}