What Is Brooks Koepka’s Net Worth?
It’s hard to believe, but Brooks Koepka has held a PGA Tour card for less than six years. His meteoric rise to the top has included seven wins, four of which were majors. Prior to joining the PGA Tour full time in 2015, Koepka played in Europe for a couple of seasons. All of it combined, the 30-year-old Florida native has earned some hefty payouts and accumulated a small fortune in his short time on the PGA Tour. What is Brooks Koepka’s net worth?
Brooks Koepka’s early career
After wrapping up his college career at Florida State, where he was a three-time All-American, Brooks Koepka packed up his bags and moved to Europe in the summer of 2012. It was there where he started honing his skills as a professional on the Challenge Tour, the second-tier level of professional golf in Europe.
Koepka didn’t wait long to prove he belonged. He won his first tournament just a couple of months after joining the tour. In 2013, he won three different times on the tour and earned a promotion to the European Tour.
In 2014, he was a full member of the European Tour but played in several PGA Tour events through sponsor’s exemptions and open qualifying. In his first U.S. event, Koepka proved to himself and the rest of the Tour he was ready to play in his home country finishing tied for third at the Frys.com Open, an event in which he led two rounds. That same year he also placed fourth at the U.S. Open, which earned him his PGA Tour card and his first Masters invite the following year.
Koepka’s success in majors
Brooks Koepka won his first PGA Tour event in 2015 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. That win turned out to be his last on the PGA Tour for several years. Despite not winning any tournaments, he played well, including a pair of top-10 finishes at the Open Championship and PGA Championship, respectively.
In 2017, Koepka ended his winless streak in grand style by tying a U.S. Open record and winning his first major championship when he fired a score of 16-under and ran away from the field at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. After undergoing wrist surgery in 2017, which forced him to miss the remainder of the season and part of 2018 including the Masters, Koepka successfully defended his U.S. Open title in 2018 at Shinnecock Hills.
A couple of months later Brooks Koepka captured his third major championship with a victory at the PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club, outlasting Tiger Woods. He was named the PGA Tour Player of the Year.
A year later, Koepka found himself in familiar territory when he held off Dustin Johnson to defend his PGA Championship at Bethpage Black in New York. The win vaulted Koepka to the top of the Official World Golf Rankings. He also won the 2019 FedEx St. Jude Invitational title and was named the Player of the Year in consecutive seasons.
What is Brooks Koepka’s net worth?
In 2015, when Brooks Koepka joined the PGA Tour as a full-time player, he won one event and had eight top-10 finishes. He earned an impressive $3.57 million. The following season, Koepka never won but performed well enough to bring home $3.32 million in earnings.
When he won three majors in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, Koepka’s earnings more than doubled, winning $5.6 million in 2017 and another $7.09 million in 2018. Brooks Koepka had his best earnings year on tour in 2019 when he won $9.68 million. As of his most recent event, Koepka has made just over $30 million in career earnings.
In addition to his prize money, Koepka has sponsorship deals with Nike and Michelob Ultra. All of it combined, Brooks Koepka has a net worth of $18 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.
It’s an incredibly impressive amount when you consider five years ago no one knew the name Brooks Koepka. Now, whenever there’s a major championship on the line, his name is one of the first to be mentioned.
