{"id":872329,"date":"2026-10-06T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872329\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:12:09","slug":"tgls-motor-city-golf-club-lands-jackson-koivun-to-pair-with-brooks-koepka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872329\/","title":{"rendered":"TGL’s Motor City Golf Club lands Jackson Koivun to pair with Brooks Koepka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooks Koepka has his first Motor City teammate.<\/p>\n

Motor City Golf Club added Jackson Koivun on Monday, pairing the 21-year-old with Koepka for the team\u2019s first TGL season in 2027. Koepka signed on as the their first player in late August.<\/a><\/p>\n

The club\u2019s social post led with four words: \u201cWE GOT THE KID.\u201d<\/p>\n

Koivun left Auburn a year early to turn pro in June. After almost four months in the pro ranks, he is off to a hot start.<\/p>\n

In his third pro start, he won the 3M Open by three shots over Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, closing with a bogey-free 66 to set the tournament scoring record at 25 under. Brandt Snedeker then made him the final captain\u2019s pick for the U.S. Presidents Cup team<\/a>, where Koivun went 2-0-1. He beat Si Woo Kim 2 up in singles after trailing early, and the Americans rallied from three points down on Sunday to win 17-13.<\/a><\/p>\n

Motor City team governor Michael Hamp said Koivun proved at Medinah that he is \u201cbuilt for the big moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team golf is familiar ground for Koivun. He was a member of the victorious 2025 Walker Cup team and won NCAA team titles with Auburn<\/a> in 2024 and 2026. No player before him had swept the Haskins, Hogan and Nicklaus awards twice.<\/p>\n

He has also seen TGL up close. Koivun said a visit to SoFi Center was unlike anything he had experienced in golf, and he wants to \u201chelp build a team Detroit can passionately support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Motor City now has a five-time major champion and one of the best young players in golf to build around. The rest of the roster has not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka has his first Motor City teammate. Motor City Golf Club added Jackson Koivun on Monday, pairing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-872329","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\/872329","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=872329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}