Brooks Koepka Details The Miserable 'Punishment' He Put Himself Through Ahead Of The PGA Championship

Brooks Koepka is a five-time major championship winner and has finished inside the Top 10 in nine of his previous 18 major starts heading into 2024. In other words, he's a big game hunter, so it's no shock to learn that he was disappointed in himself with his T-45 finish at the Masters earlier this year.

Koepka isn't the type of athlete who simply flushes a bad experience and moves onto the next challenge given the fact that he decided to physically punish himself after his poor showing at Augusta National.

Ahead of this week's PGA Championship, a tournament Koepka has won three times, the 34-year-old not only explained that he apologized to his team around him after the Masters, but described the "punishment" workouts he was tasked with as well.

"I just apologized. Everybody put in a lot of hard work. Dedicated a lot of time and effort and then for me to go out and play like that is not what I expect of myself, I don't think what they expect of me," Koepka explained. "So yeah, just we had a good talk and just kind of put our nose down and kept grinding. You know, had some difficult punishment workouts. It was long hours on the range."

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It wasn't just beating balls on the range mixed with some lifting. Koepka explained his trainer put him through the gauntlet.

"I mean, I'm not looking for the punishment workout. I just get told. It sucks. It's not a lot of fun. A lot more running. Very up-tempo, no rest. Ara Suppiah, basically he kind of oversees my program with Hamish and Kolby, and they talk and they figure it out," Koepka said. "I walked in and Ara told me that you finished 45th; you're going to get penalized. I think I had like four or five days in a row of just -- I turned white, I wanted to throw up in a few of them."

The world knew that Brooks Koepka was built different, but this goes to show that his mindset and preparation are both unique.

Koepka is among the favorites to raise the Wanamaker Trophy yet again at Valhalla this week. If he were to do so, he'd become just the 15th player ever to win six major championships in his career.