Door is Open now and Brooks is ready to charge on through

Coach Cowen says Koepka will lift Claret Jug

- NEIL MCLEMAN

BROOKS KOEPKA is ready to conquer The Open in another period of world domination after taking his Major haul to five.

So says Yorkshire coach Pete Cowen who insists the LIV Golf star and Manchester United fan has the game to live with the Royal Liverpool links.

The new world No.13 racked up four Majors in 23 months and appeared unstoppable after the most recent of them in the 2019 US PGA at Bethpage Black.

Since then, though, he has had stem cell treatment on his knee as well as surgery, a crisis of confidence and swapped the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed breakaway league.

But after his near miss at last month's Masters - in which he conceded he choked - Koepka was back to his old, swaggering best at Oak Hill to beat the best in the world by two shots. He is only the third player to win the US PGA three times in a six-year span, a feat achieved by Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen.

He has joined the greats and Cowen, who famously gave Koepka a “b*****king” before his first Major win at the 2017 US Open, says he’ll go on and on.