Brooks Koepka. File Picture
Brooks Koepka has withdrawn from next week’s US Open 2020 at Winged Foot. The two-time U.S. Open, who has also twice won the PGA Championship, has cited injury concerns. It has been a season during which he has been hit lingering knee and hip ailments.
He said, “Unfortunately, I have decided to withdraw from next week’s U.S. Open,” he said. “I’m looking forward to getting healthy and competing at 100% again very soon.”
Koepka had also missed the cut at the Wyndham Championship last month and withdrawn from the Northern Trust ahead of the FedEx Cup playoffs. However, even as he was battling nagging injuries, he was T2 at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and had a top-10 finish at RBC Heritage.
Koepka, who won three times last season and also finished second in the US Open, missed five cuts in the 2019-20 season. That was two more than the combined number of cuts he had missed in the two previous seasons.
After three wins in the 2018-19 season, Koepka had undergone a stem cell treatment on his injured knee. But he injured the same knee yet again in South Korea in October, 2019. He then took an extended period of time away from golf.
When he played Last month at the PGA Championship he had a trainer to help him mid-round because of a hip ailment. At that time he had said it was the hip and not the knee.
Koepka won the U.S. Open in 2017 and 2018 and the PGA Championship in 2018 and 2019. He has also won the WGC-FexEx St. Jude Invitational in 2019. He has also been World No. 1 for a total of 47 weeks, with the most recent stint of 38 weeks ending in February, 2020.
