Brooks Koepka is hitting the ball better than almost anyone on the PGA Tour. He has used four different putters this season trying to find one that matches his ball striking.
Koepka began the year with his traditional Scotty Cameron blade. He switched to a TaylorMade mallet for the WM Phoenix Open after his first week back on Tour. That remained in the bag until the PGA Championship, when he switched into a different version of the TaylorMade mallet. He switched putters again the following week.
The fourth putter came at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. A Scotty Cameron Fastback 1.5, his fourth different putter of the season. He fired an opening-round 63, his best round of 2026.
“It just kind of saved the round,” Koepka said. “Bogey-free is always a big confidence booster.”
Koepka broke his putter during a final-round 70 at Myrtle Beach, losing more than 2.5 shots to the field on the greens. He had posted a T11 finish that week, his best since returning to the PGA Tour in January.
That sent him to Aronimink for PGA Championship week in need of a new putter. Koepka tested offerings from TaylorMade and Scotty Cameron during a session that lasted close to one hour. One of the more interesting options was a custom Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R prototype featuring a milled Teryllium insert designed to mirror the one in his previous Newport 2 gamers. He went with the TaylorMade Spider Tour V instead and switched out of it within a week.
“Putter is absolutely horrendous. Ball striking is absolutely phenomenal,” he said after the first round of the PGA Championship.
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Koepka said the Fastback 1.5 gives him the feel of a blade with a little more toe hang. “This week is for something I feel like releases on its own, something I’ve been fighting a little bit,” he said.
For the season, Koepka ranks sixth in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, fourth in Approach, second in greens in regulation, and 13th in proximity. He sits 136th in Strokes Gained: Putting.
Koepka used two different versions of a Scotty Cameron Newport 2 blade to win five major championships. The Fastback is a different look, but the results at the Canadian Open suggested he might finally be close.
During Thursday’s opening round at TPC Toronto, Koepka poured in 107 feet worth of putts and eight birdies to shoot a 6-under 64, sharing the 18-hole lead. “It was nice to see the putter finally heat up,” he said. “It’s just the putting that’s held me back and trying to be mechanical, trying to be maybe too much in the stroke and figure everything out. But it was nice today to at least kind of turn the brain off and go from there.”
He followed that up with 3.380 Strokes Gained: Putting in the second round with over 112 feet of putts holed, becoming the top-ranked putter in the field at the Canadian Open.
Koepka withdrew from the Canadian Open with a hand injury before the final round. “I don’t know what it is. I’m struggling to grip the club with my ring finger and pinkie finger, so can’t grip it,” he explained. “So the club is kind of just, my fingers would come loose, it was kind of numb.”
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Koepka won the U.S. Open the last time it was held at Shinnecock Hills in 2018. His status for next week’s tournament remains uncertain due to the hand injury.
