Brooks Koepka‘s December 2025 departure from LIV Golf cited family as the priority. His representatives stated it plainly that Family has always guided his decisions, and he feels this is the right moment to spend more time at home. But what does that family actually look like?

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Who is Brooks Koepka?

Brooks Koepka himself emerged from an athletic family rooted in Florida. He was born January 3, 1990, in West Palm Beach to Bob Koepka, a former minor league baseball player, and Denise Jakows. He also has a younger brother, named Chase Koepka, who also turned professional and competed on LIV Golf’s Iron Heads GC.

Koepka is a five-time major champion with two U.S. Opens and three PGA Championships to his name. He joined LIV Golf in June 2022 as captain of Smash GC, signing a contract reportedly worth over $100 million. He became the first LIV golfer to win a major (PGA Championship) and represent America in the Ryder Cup. Both accolades came in 2023.

Koepka’s 3-year LIV earning stands at approximately $46,065,848 as of 2025, according to Sportrac. His career golf earnings amount to $97,300,514, with $29,857,185 earned from the PGA Tour. His net worth as of 2025 sits around $60 million.

Now, the answer to what the golfer’s family looks like starts with Jena Sims.

Who is Brooks Koepka’s wife, Jena Sims?

Born December 30, 1988, in Winder, Georgia, Sims carved her own identity long before she became a golfer’s wife. In 2007, she won Miss Georgia Teen USA. Eighteen years later, she anchors the family that a five-time major champion is restructuring his career around.

She is an actress, model, philanthropist, and a mother. She built a Hollywood career and launched a non-profit, Pageant of Hope, as a teenager, which organizes pageants for children facing medical and developmental challenges. She also walked a runway at eight months pregnant for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model.

The couple’s origin story began at the 2015 Masters, somewhere near Hole 7. They were just friends initially, and two years later, after Sims slid into his Instagram DMs, the relationship turned romantic. They went public at the 2017 U.S. Open, celebrating Koepka’s first major victory together on the 18th green at Erin Hills.

An engagement followed in March 2021, and they got married on June 4, 2022, in Turks and Caicos. Their son, Crew Sims Koepka, arrived six weeks premature on July 27, 2023. He had to spend time in the NICU before coming home. The family now operates from a 13,000-square-foot waterfront mansion in Jupiter, Florida’s Pennock Point neighborhood — the home base Koepka is returning to after walking away from LIV’s global travel demands.

Let us take a look at Sims’ professional life as it extends far beyond just supporting her husband’s career.

Jena Sims’ career: From Sharknado to Sports Illustrated

Sims appeared in cult films like Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, and Three-Headed Shark Attack. Television credits include Entourage, Dexter, and One Tree Hill. Her modeling trajectory reached a peak in 2023 when she became a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Search finalist, while nearly eight months pregnant. She walked the Miami Swim Week runway that July, weeks before Crew’s birth. The following year, SI named her the 2024 Rookie of the Year.

Philanthropy remains her throughline.

The Pageant of Hope continues to serve children with special needs. Weeks after suffering a miscarriage at 16 weeks in October 2025, Sims returned to the pageant world as a judge for Miss Teen USA 2025. Koepka handled home duties while she worked.

For Koepka to be unable to continue with LIV, the problem was geography. LIV’s 2025 schedule spanned 14 events across Saudi Arabia, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico, Spain, England, and multiple U.S. venues. That calendar doesn’t align with a Jupiter-based life, a toddler approaching his second birthday, and a wife whose own professional obligations demand presence.