PARAMUS, N.J. – Brooks Koepka’s road to becoming a three-time major champion is very much less traveled, but he wouldn’t change a thing.
After turning pro in 2012, Koepka failed to advance out of the second stage of PGA Tour Q-School and also failed to earn playing privileges at the European Tour’s qualifying tournament; so he took an alternate route by playing the European Challenge Tour.
He won once on the secondary circuit in ’12, and quickly progressed with three victories on the Challenge Tour before June in 2013 while playing a schedule that included tournaments from Kenya to Portugal.