Brooks Koepka, a five-time major champion, recently parted ways with the Saudi-backed circuit on Dec 24. 

While Koepka has decided to focus on his family, the reps said in a statement, "Brooks is prioritizing the needs of his family and staying closer to home." 

 Here’s a look back at some key facts about Brooks Koepka’s Career.

Brooks Koepka's Career wins and highlights

1. At the 2012 Challenge de Catalunya on the Challenge Tour in Europe, Brooks Koepka recorded his first professional victory. His total score was −16 (200), and he finished three strokes ahead of runner-up Alessandro Tadini. Due to heavy rain, the tournament was reduced to 54 holes.

1. Koepka won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award on the European Tour in 2014 after winning the Turkish Airlines Open and finishing eighth in the Race to Dubai rankings. 

1. The following year, he earned his PGA Tour card and won his first PGA Tour event, the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open, by one stroke. He was also named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2015. In the same year, he finished tied for 10th place at The Open Championship.

1. Koepka became the first player in history to hold back-to-back titles in two different major championships at the same time, the U.S. Open (2017–2018) and the PGA Championship (2018–2019).
2. While Koepka is yet to complete his career Grand Slam, he has finished as runner-up at the Masters twice (2019 and 2023) and tied for fourth at The Open Championship in 2019.
3. Koepka won the PGA Tour Player of the Year award for the 2017–18 season. He then won the first tournament, i.e, the CJ Cup 2018 he played at the beginning of the following PGA Tour season. Tiger Woods is the only other golfer to achieve this.
4. During his time in LIV Golf, he won five individual events; his first LIV victory was in 2022 at the LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah in October. Next year, 2023, Koepka won LIV events in Orlando and Jeddah. In 2024, adding two more LIV Golf wins at Singapore and The Greenbrier, defeating Jon Rahm in a playoff at the latter event.
5.  Koepka is the first golfer to win a major while under contract with LIV Golf by winning the 2023 PGA Championship.

Brooks Koepka’s career earnings

Koepka left the PGA Tour in June 2022 to join LIV on a four-year contract that runs through 2026, reportedly worth more than $100 million, according to Reuters.

Koepka earned $46,065,848 during his four-year spell on LIV Golf and $29,857,185 in lifetime earnings on the PGA Tour.

Written by

Aditi Singh

Edited by

Oajaswini Prabhu