‘Only one in the world going through this’: Inside Brooks Koepka’s Tour return

He sure looked like Major Brooks. The world beater. The swaggering, smirking, growling, grounding-and-pounding pro immune to anxiety. Thanos in a polo. But the person sitting at the dais on Tuesday morning didn’t sound much like Brooks Koepka. That guy said he was nervous, which was a term the guy everyone knew maybe would have had to look up. “I think it feels a little bit different,” he said. “I’m definitely a little bit more nervous this week just coming back.” Tuesday, though, perhaps that was to be expected. He was returning, to the PGA Tour, where he had been, before bolting for LIV in 2022. Two days ahead of Christmas, Koepka and that circuit parted ways, and a dozen days later,...