For nearly a decade, Brooks Koepka was a fixture of the American Ryder Cup team. A five-time major winner and one of the fiercest competitors of his generation, he wore the red, white, and blue in four straight editions. But when Keegan Bradley revealed his captain’s picks for Bethpage, the same venue where Koepka lifted the 2019 PGA Championship trophy, his name wasn’t even in the discussion. And for this, Koepka blames himself.

Koepka, speaking to Off the Ball , was brutally clear about why it happened. “ I played my way off it, so I can’t be disappointed ,” he said ahead of the Amgen Irish Open, where he’s playing on a sponsor exemption. It is good that he is self-aware, because he indeed performed underwhelmingly this year, not just on the majors — whose points would have he

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