Brooks Koepka's response to a top 10 Masters finish behind DJ? 'Whoo, seventh.'

A top-10 finish and four straight rounds of 70 or less at Augusta National Golf Club would be enough to make most PGA Tour players ecstatic.

But when that player is Brooks Koepka — whose performance level in major tournaments is only matched by his bravado — that’s simply not good enough.

And especially when that finish was well behind Dustin Johnson, the player he was once close with but threw a jab at before the final round of the PGA Championship.

“Yeah, I’m not really excited right now. Whoo, seventh,” Koepka said after finishing in a tie with Jon Rahm and C.T. Pan at 10-under 278. “I don’t know what else to say to that. I’m not too happy. Yeah, I mean, it’s disappointing.”

While Johnson was setting a new bar with a 20-under par finish and claimed his first green jacket, Koepka never seemed to clear himself from the morning fog that delayed Sunday’s start.

Koepka was still on the fringes of striking distance at Augusta on Sunday. He entered the day at 8 under, eight shots behind Johnson, so the two-time U.S. Open and two-time PGA Championship winner would have needed a huge day to get back into contention once Johnson started strong.

He made birdie on No. 7, holing out a chip, but gave the stroke back on No. 11 when he tried to bump a short shot that got caught in the fringe.

He made a pair of birdies on the back nine, but they came on the par 5s and the effort on No. 13 was a missed opportunity — Koepka missed a short eagle putt.

The lack of on-course electricity might have been a reason for his play — Koepka has often saved his best efforts for the loudest and most intense stages.

“Yeah, even at the PGA, it’s just very dull. It’s hard to … there’s just not that atmosphere going. Hopefully soon, we can have them back,” Koepka said.

“I mean, the no fans thing is … I mean, it’s becoming, I guess, the norm, but it’s still very odd at this place to see it. You kind of miss the roars. I think that’s the one thing I miss the most is just kind of the excitement, the buzz that goes around.

“Even when you’re just kind of walking around on Tuesday, you can almost feel it in the air at this place, and I kind of miss it.”

As for witnessing Johnson make history, Koepka said he wasn’t surprised by the result, especially the way Augusta National was playing in the fall. Johnson and Koepka (and Xander Schauffele) tied for second in the 2019 Masters, a stroke behind winner Tiger Woods, but this year’s wet conditions played right into Johnson’s strengths.

“The course suited him down to the ground. He’s more of a picker of the ball. He doesn’t spin it that much with his irons. So the ball’s not going to be backing up, so he can get to a lot of the back pins a lot better,” Koepka said of DJ. “If you pick it like that, you can really, really control … you’re never going to rip it off the front of the green, where I feel like a lot of people, pretty much everybody struggled with that. Like I said, it just suited him.”