"If I Break My Wrist, This Is On F****** Both Of You"

Brooks Koepka did not endear himself to the rules officials during day two of the Ryder Cup

Brooks Koepka during a ruling at the Ryder Cup
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Brooks Koepka did not endear himself to the rules officials during day two of the Ryder Cup

When Daniel Berger carved his drive right at the 15th not many could have predicted what would happen next as his partner Brooks Koepka attempted to get a free drop.

With a drain nearby Koepka maintained that he was entitled to some relief as there was a chance that his through swing could get involved with the metalwork – the situation wasn’t helped in that the ball was sat in a clump of grass and Koepka would have to play the shot with his weight forward and therefore would be hitting down on it.

There was plenty of discussion as, first referee David Price refused the drop, before Koepka called for a second opinion which was also refused.

In among all of this Koepka asked Price if he had ‘ever seen me hit a ball?’ intimating  that there was a chance, with the way that he would be playing the shot, that the club and drain might meet, something that tickled Sergio Garcia so much that he spat out his water.

Price calmly replied that ‘I’ve seen you hit plenty of balls’ before calling in for a second opinion.

Garcia continued to get involved, even to the point of assuming a stance over Koepka’s shot, while a fairly blunt Berger carried on making the American’s point.

Koepka, who suffered a wrist injury at the Tour Championship less than three weeks ago when his left wrist made contact with a tree root, ploughed on with his thoughts on the matter, even to the point of saying ‘If I break my wrist, it’s on f***ing both of you’ before play got going again.

Eventually after what felt like a short lifetime, Koepka played the shot and somehow muscled one onto the green and the hole was halved in par 4s.

The Europeans won the match 3&1 which was some turnaround after losing the first three holes.

When asked about the ruling Koepka was a lot less talkative than he had been on the course.

"Yeah, we didn’t get it."

Koepka and Berger were not popular on social media after the incident:

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Mark Townsend
Contributing editor

Mark has worked in golf for over 20 years having started off his journalistic life at the Press Association and BBC Sport before moving to Sky Sports where he became their golf editor on skysports.com. He then worked at National Club Golfer and Lady Golfer where he was the deputy editor and he has interviewed many of the leading names in the game, both male and female, ghosted columns for the likes of Robert Rock, Charley Hull and Dame Laura Davies, as well as playing the vast majority of our Top 100 GB&I courses. He loves links golf with a particular love of Royal Dornoch and Kingsbarns. He is now a freelance, also working for the PGA and Robert Rock. Loves tour golf, both men and women and he remains the long-standing owner of an horrific short game. He plays at Moortown with a handicap of 6.