Sep 20, 2025, 01:05 PM ET<\/p>\n
PARIS — Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka<\/a> rattled off five straight birdies on the back nine Saturday and had a 6-under 65, giving him a share of the lead in the French Open as he tries to win for the first time in more than a year.<\/p>\n Min Woo Lee<\/a> shot 68 and was tied with Koepka at 11-under 202. They were one shot clear of a trio that included Michael Kim<\/a>, another American in Paris during an off week on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n This is Koepka’s third straight week playing on the European Tour, after missing the cut in the Irish Open and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.<\/p>\n He also missed the cut in three of the four majors this year. Koepka’s last victory was in August 2024 on the LIV Golf League at the Greenbrier in West Virginia.<\/p>\n “I feel like my game has been trending in the right direction,” Koepka said. “It’s the results haven’t been there. I feel a lot closer. I’m pleased with the work I’ve put in over the last few months, and nothing has shown, so hopefully got a chance to win tomorrow.”<\/p>\n He attributed the low round at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bret\u00e8che to little more than good putting. Koepka had eight birdies in the round, finishing with a bogey on the par-3 18th when he failed to get up-and-down, missing a 6-foot putt.<\/p>\n Lee won the Houston Open earlier this year for his first PGA Tour title, though he failed to advance beyond one week in the FedEx Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n Guido Migliozzi<\/a> (66) of Italy and Marcus Armitage<\/a> (71) of England joined Kim in the group one shot behind. Kim shot a 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 20, 2025, 01:05 PM ET PARIS — Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka rattled off five straight birdies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-170462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}