Koepka: Someone Should Get Fired For "Mind-boggling" US Open Snub

The American once again feels like he has been overlooked

Koepka: Someone Should Get Fired
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The American once again feels like he has been overlooked

Koepka: Someone Should Get Fired For "Mind-boggling" US Open Snub

Brooks Koepka comes into this week's US Open at Pebble Beach looking to become the first player to win three years in a row for more than a century.

The American just won the USPGA Championship too so should be far and away the biggest star this week, but once again he feels like he has been overlooked.

That's because he wasn't even featured in a FOX advert for the tournament.

Yes you read that correctly, the 2017 and 2018 US Open winner and current World No.1 wasn't in an advert promoting the 2019 tournament.

Koepka, who is one of golf's most outspoken voices now, wasn't happy.

“We’re amazed that I wasn’t in it,” he said.

“There’s a couple of things where it’s just mind-boggling – it’s, like, really? How do you forget that? It doesn’t make sense to me.

“Just kind of shocked. They’ve had over a year to put it out. So I don’t know. Somebody probably got fired over it ... or should.”

The now four-time Major winner famously said at last year's US Open that he always feels like he is overlooked, but one thing is for sure and that is that he is no longer in the shadows.

Koepka is favourite to win this week, alongside Rory McIlroy, and he is out on his own at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.

His display at Bethpage Black for the first 63 holes was up there with some of the greatest Major performances in history, and he picked up his fourth Major at the end of the day despite a dip on the back nine.

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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

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