Watching the PGA Championship coverage Saturday night, Rory McIlroy said he was taken aback by Brooks Koepka’s interview.
He likely wasn’t the only one.
On multiple occasions, Koepka seemed to take a shot at Dustin Johnson, saying – correctly – that Johnson has “only won one” major and that Koepka “likes his chances” given the relative inexperience on the leaderboard.
“I certainly wouldn’t say it,” McIlroy said Sunday after finishing his round. “It’s different, right? It’s a very different mentality to bring to golf that I don’t think a lot of golfers have.”
A few years ago, Koepka and Johnson were frequent practice partners and seemed to be close friends, but Koepka intimated in a recent interview that their relationship was overblown because they used to work out at the same South Florida gym.