{"id":173078,"date":"2025-09-22T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173078\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:51:12","slug":"golf-commentator-takes-dig-at-brooks-koepka-as-he-throws-away-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173078\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf commentator takes dig at Brooks Koepka as he throws away French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French Open leaderboard: Final scores<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Rank<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Player<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Country<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Score<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Michael Kim<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">United States<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-16<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Jeong-Weon Ko<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">France<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-15<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Elvis Smylie<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-15<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">4<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Brooks Koepka<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">United States<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Marcus Armitage<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">England<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-13<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Min-Woo Lee<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-13<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Guido Migliozzi<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Italy<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-13<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Kristoffer Reitan<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Norway<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-13<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">9<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Jayden Schaper<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">South Africa<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-11<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports Golf commentator Mark Roe questioned how LIV Golf is affecting Brooks Koepka&#8217;s form as the American spurned a glorious opportunity to step into the winner&#8217;s circle again at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/dp-world-tour\/open-de-france-prize-money\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"fe50b298-9c17-46bc-b014-3127d1663832\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Open de France prize money: How much Michael Kim, others won\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open de France<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Five-time major winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/brooks-koepka\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"5afa99fd-7484-4c59-bf2c-7368bc30b1e6\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Brooks Koepka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koepka<\/a> rattled off five birdies on Saturday to share the lead with Australia&#8217;s Min Woo Lee heading into the final round at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bret\u00e8che in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the American was left frustrated after a final-round 69 saw him finish two behind Michael Kim, who claimed his first victory since 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim looked as though he was going to be heading to a sudden-death play-off with France&#8217;s Jeong-weon Ko and Australia&#8217;s Elvis Smylie, but the 32-year-old PGA Tour member drained a clutch 15-foot par putt on the 72nd hole to finish on 16-under and win by one stroke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>It represented his first win on the DP World Tour and first since he won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/pga-tour\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"0514d135-c0aa-4a5d-a5c8-f7197f44adc3\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"PGA Tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a>&#8216;s John Deere Classic in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Koepka made the turn in 32 strokes, courtesy of two birdies and his third eagle of the week at the 8th hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six pars followed for Koepka before he dropped a stroke at the par-4 15th. The bogey saw him trail by two strokes with two holes remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned Roe chimed in: &#8220;You question sometimes how sharp your game is when you&#8217;re playing a Tour with three rounds and no cuts. Does it have an affect on\u00a0you\u00a0long\u00a0term?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roe was referencing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"a98bdd27-b225-4fc9-b7d2-bbff98678a53\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"LIV Golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIV Golf<\/a>, whom Koepka joined in 2022 for more than $100m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Koepka, who missed three out of four cuts in the majors this year, has not tasted victory since he triumphed at The Greenbrier last August on the PIF-backed league.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His last PGA Tour victory was in 2019 at the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perfect cherry on top&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kim fired a faultless final-round 66.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It looked as though a sudden-death play-off was going to be needed to determine the champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim, Ko, Smylie and England&#8217;s Marcus Armitage were all in contention.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Kim hit his tee shot on the par-3 18th into the bunker left of the green and was fortunate his golf ball wasn&#8217;t plugged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He splashed out and holed the 15-footer to silence the French crowd who were supporting Ko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels amazing,&#8221; Kim later told Sky Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t won a tournament since 2018 at the John Deere Classic and I really wanted to put on a good showing here this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just so happy and grateful that I was able to come out with a victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of his winning putt, he said: &#8220;That green putt slides away so much that I knew it was going to be quick and it just didn&#8217;t run out as much as I thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elvis gave me a decent look from the side and I don&#8217;t know, it somehow stayed pretty straight through the middle and I kind of blacked out when the putt went in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kim said he has an early flight to catch tomorrow but will celebrate by drinking lots of French wine and champagne before getting on board.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French Open leaderboard: Final scores Rank Player Country Score 1 Michael Kim United States -16 2 Jeong-Weon Ko&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[18939,427,99],"class_list":["post-173078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-brooks-koepka","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173078","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=173078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}