{"id":334597,"date":"2023-09-28T07:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=334597"},"modified":"2023-09-28T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:02:09","slug":"play-better-koepkas-brutal-reply-to-fellow-liv-defector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=334597","title":{"rendered":"'Play better': Koepka's brutal reply to fellow LIV defector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooks Koepka<\/a> has told fellow LIV Golf<\/a> defector Dustin Johnson<\/a> to simply "play better" after the latter's complaints over Ryder Cup<\/a> selection. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Koepka, despite being LIV affiliated, will play at this week's event for Team USA and is the only member of the Saudi-backed tour to be picked, with America allowed six captain's picks.<\/p>\n

Earlier in September, \ufeffJohnson expressed his disappointment at not being selected in captain Zach Johnson's team, outlining his belief that he was good enough to make it.<\/p>\n

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"I would love to be a part of the team," he said.<\/p>\n

"But to be honest, I haven't really played that well this year… Was it good enough to make the team? I think so. If I would have been playing on [the PGA Tour], yeah, I would have made the team."<\/p>\n

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With the tournament starting this week, Koepka was asked whether players like Dustin Johnson and other LIV golfers were treated unfairly but was blunt in his reply.<\/p>\n

"I don't make the decisions," he said.<\/p>\n

"Everybody had an opportunity to get there. I mean, I had the same opportunity as every other LIV player, and I'm here. Play better. That's always the answer."<\/p>\n

Along with Johnson, European Ryder Cup legends Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter also won't play after their defections to LIV Golf. \ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Dustin<\/p>\n

Koepka explained he'll be representing his country, not his fellow defectors. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"I feel like I'm representing the USA. That's what I've got on the front of my hat this week, so that's what I'm representing," he said.<\/p>\n

"We're just all one team, and that's the way we think. That's what I believe, and I'm pretty sure everybody else there thinks that."<\/p>\n

In May, the 33-year-old had his third PGA Championship win, giving him a spot in the history book as the first LIV Golf player to win a major championship.<\/p>\n

Koepka's second placed finish at the Masters made for a successful year and \ufeffessentially forced Johnson's hand to pick him after only just missing out on automatic selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooks Koepka has told fellow LIV Golf defector Dustin Johnson to simply "play better" after the latter's complaints over Ryder Cup selection. \ufeff Koepka, despite […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334601,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334597\/revisions\/334601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/334599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}