Fuming Brooks Koepka challenges PGA Championship heckler: ‘Come down here and say it’

A fan who heckled Brooks Koepka at the PGA Championship on Friday unsurprisingly didn’t actually want the smoke.

Koepka, who missed the cut at Quail Hollow by shooting 9-over across the first two rounds, challenged a man who yelled “guaranteed money does that Brooks,” referencing Koepka leaving the PGA Tour in 2022 to take a reported nine-figure guarantee from LIV Golf.

“You want to come down here and say it?” Koepka said to the fan, who was in an elevated, fenced-off area, in a video posted on social media.

The fan did not respond to Koepka in the rest of the video.

Koepka, 35, has five major victories in his career, tied for 15th-most all-time.

He’s captured two U.S. Opens and three PGA Championships, his most recent major win coming in the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill.

On Friday, Koepka missed the cut at the PGA Championship for the first time in his career, and that came a month after he missed the cut at the Masters.

While he made the cut at all four majors last year, he finished no better than tied for 26th.

In early March, Fred Couples raised eyebrows when he said during a radio interview that Koepka wants to return to the PGA Tour, which has stripped the Tour cards of any players that defected to LIV Golf.

Brooks Koepka responded to a heckler during the second round of the PGA Championship on May 16, 2025. X/LIVGolfBuff

Phil Mickelson called Couples’ comments a “low class jerk move.”

But perhaps Couples, who said he talks to Koepka “all the time,” was on to something, as Koepka did not seem like someone loving the LIV Golf life when he was asked about a potential return to the Tour later in March.

“I’ve got a contract obligation out here to fulfill [at LIV], and then we’ll see what happens,” Koepka said at the time.

Brooks Koepka hits an approach shot during the second round of the PGA Championship on May 16, 2025. Getty Images

While his exact contract details are unknown, his LIV deal is reportedly up in 2026.

Talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf about working together have yet to reach a resolution.