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Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    JimmyD5cc

    He may be a Lone Wolf, but he needs to shut up when he compares himself to McIlroy. Both are excellent players, only Rory doesn’t run his mouth like Brooks,

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      Tom Edrington

      I think Brooks has earned the right to speak his mind.

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        baxter cepeda

        Makes you wonder why Every Olympics some virus wants to end the world.

        I do appreciate brooks’ time on the Euro Tour; compared to others achieving life security on the PGA Tour with their diapers still Soggy.

        And I liked the pun on Reed.

        But The whole I don’t need friends works for you? I don’t bye it like I did with Tiger, but even Woods has learned better; and Tiger quietly has always had a ton of friends along the way: O’mera, stricker, Freddy just to make a few.

        Brooks can say what he wants but he got his best work done quietly. Simply. Imo Like his boy DJ—assuming the bromance continued after Paris—The current number 3 needs to make sure he doesn’t complex things too much for himself.

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          Tom Edrington

          Beg to differ on those guys being Tiger’s friends from back in the day…..not one had an inkling of Tiger’s mis-deeds….

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            baxter cepeda

            That’s a whole other list of friends.

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    baxter cepeda

    I don’t know about complex.
    Remember when Brooks was defending a major but no one showed up for post round interviews?
    He realized then he had to get a little bit interesting.
    His comments have a lot of contradictions.
    Brooks is now not about money but recently noted it would be cool to win the Fed ex 15$ million as one of his excuses to skip the Olympics.
    Winning a gold medal would be cool. Historic. Winning fed ex’s head start playoffs would be mostly just about money.
    As with the Olympics most of the top players don’t have it in them to stick their necks out first; so his comments about the new league are pretty typical.
    The problem with this New tour is it would take everyone out of their comfort zones, not for a week like Rio, but for their entire careers. It will be very hard for anyone to break the PGA Tour stronghold because none of these guys are willing to be that first wildebeest to cross the river with gators looming.
    These guys are comfortable.
    Where they are is great. Why take any chances?
    It doesn’t help that any players dabbling with this new tour will end of Kostis-Ed… so much for PGA Tour being independent.
    As Rory said If everyone goes he will follow, but how do you get someone to go? You basically don’t.
    It is good Brooks is speaking his mind. It’s good to say things. But he is hardly complex.

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      Tom Edrington

      I disagree; There’s a lot going on with Brooks; That being said, you mention the Olympics……the Coronavirus may end up putting the 2020 Summer Games out of business….

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