Koepka Lumps Patrick Reed's "Building Castles" With Astros Scandal, Says Lie Improvement Going On More Than It Should

Well there’s some synergy for you.

Brooks Koepka, co-architect of revisions to Memorial Park, home to the 2020 Houston Open benefiting the Cheating Astros Foundation, shared his views on Patrick Reed’s Hero World Challenge waste area antics with SiriusXM’s Sway Callaway (full clip below).

After answering in the affirmative to the “cheating” word, Koepka is more than clear on his views about Reed and overall lie improvement practices he sees.

From a GolfChannel.com report:

When asked by host Sway Callaway if Reed was cheating when he improved his lie, Koepka said: “Yeah. I don’t know what he was doing, building sand castles in the sand. But you know where your club is. I took three months off and I can promise you I know if I touch sand. If you look at the video, obviously he grazes the sand twice and then he still chops down on it.”

After making an Astros comparison, Koepka touched on something once sadly controversial and now going on too often in pro golf: mashing the grass down behind a ball.

In fact, during a U.S. Open (he didn’t specify which year), Koepka said that he watched one of his fellow playing competitors blow a drive right, into 6-inch rough. He saw that player take out a 3-wood and pat down the thick rough behind the ball, only to then grab a wedge and hack the ball out 60 yards down the fairway. Koepka looked at the other player in his group and said, “This ain’t right.”

“It goes on a little bit more than people think,” he said, before adding: "I’ve been guilty of it. I haven’t opened my mouth. But now if I saw it, just because of where I’m at in the game, the stature that I have, I would definitely say something.”

The full interview…hope Brooks doesn’t get too big of a fine for this!