Dustin Johnson & Brooks Koepka: Where You Guys Been?

When was the last time you saw U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka?

How about world’s No. 1 Dustin Johnson?

Unless you’ve been hanging out at Joey D’s gym in Jupiter or the Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, you most likely haven’t seen hide nor hair of these guys.

Which begs the simple question:

We’ve got a major championship next week.  Why haven’t you guys played a lick?

The last time we saw Brooks Koepka he was hugging the U.S. Open trophy and Fox Sports wannabe golf commentator Joe Buck was mis-identifying Koepka’s girlfriend.

Since then, Koepka’s been at home.

Last time we saw D.J. he was falling flat on his face at Erin Hills, missing the 36-hole cut.  Johnson, the hottest player on the planet going into the 2017 Masters, has simply not been the same since that rough-and-tumble stairs episode on Wednesday afternoon in Augusta.

Koepka hasn’t played, neither has D.J.

So what have they been doing?

Well, they’ve been training at Joey D’s gym.  Not sure how that’s going to help them get out of one of those pot bunkers at Royal Birkdale or how it’s going to extract them from the gorse. Note to everyone — there’s no getting out of the gorse!

Okay, here’s where it gets a bit crazy.

Trainer Joey Diovisalvi (we’ll just stick with ‘Joey D’), came up with the bit of golf wisdom:

“I want to say this as carefully as I can.  It’s good to miss cuts once in a while. It gives them a better state of reality?”

Seriously?

Good to miss the cut in a major after you already missed playing in The Masters?

Joey D wasn’t very careful with that.

So they’ve been in the gym and playing at The Medalist.  The Medalist?  It is about as far from links golf as California is from Maine.

Europe’s best showed up last week at the Irish Open to get the weather and links experience.  There was finally weather although the Portstewart Golf Club was birdie-friendly.  That’s probably a good thing.

Europe’s best will be at this week’s Scottish Open.  How about Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler and Henrik Stenson playing together the first 36 holes at the Dundonald Links?

Brooks and D.J. are heading to the U.K. this weekend, but they won’t be teeing it up in Scotland.

Heck, why should they?  They’ve been playing The Medalist and training with Joey D, who says it’s good to miss cuts in majors.

D.J. is still No. 1 while Koepka fell out of the top 10 thanks to red-hot Jon Rahm, winner last week at the Irish Open.

Good news is that D.J. and Brooks will have time to get used to the time zone changes,  time to take a peek at Royal Birkdale.

The bad news is that neither Dustin Johnson or Brooks Koepka has played competitive golf since the U.S. Open.

When was the last time anyone took a month off and won a major?

We’ll get back to you on that one,  we’ll give Joey D a call and see if he knows.