Bryson Vs. Brooks: The DeChambeau-Koepka Spat Is Heating Up - Dog Leg News

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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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    baxter cepeda

    Interesting psycho analysis of these two. Personally I see these two as one in the same.

    Brooks has quite a bit of nerd in him and Bryson is a lot more jock than he likes to admit.

    Brooks from all accounts is not the most popular; he started his pro career in mostly obscurity in Europe despite his talent; and even after he won majors no reporters attended his boring press conferences; that’s when he started looking for more attention with polarizing comments. Brooks knows what it’s like to feel like a nerd no one wants to talk to.

    Bryson meanwhile gets lots of attention, always has, at least since those big time college wins. Bryson imo gets away with all his emphasis geek golf, math, science, because he is so athletic. Whether it’s a steady one plane or full blown long drive swing, Bryson is an athlete, and all his zany ideas work well enough because he is a stud.

    That being said neither one comes close to the real popular figures in golf today: Tiger, Phil, Jordan, Rory.

    Physically At this point bryson and brooks are hard to distinguish from a distance.

    And Both can get pretty serious tempers; the only difference is Bryson is learning to control it.

    I could go on but you get the point. While they are different; who isn’t?, they share too many similarities; this may be the bigger issue at hand.

    Imo.

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      Tom Edrington

      Oh no, right away, Dr. Gio will differ with you, Brooks = Pure Jock; Alpha Dog; And until you get your PhD Baxter, I’ll go with Dr. Gio on this one…

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        baxter cepeda

        I understand what the good doctor is saying; and agree. But the facts I laid out show it’s not that simple.

        Brooks initially was annoyed with Bryson misbehaving; but now brooks is doing some of the same cursing on camera and what not.

        I think brooks is threatened by Bryson. Brooks wanted to be the big boy in the block but Bryson got bigger. Threatened.

        Regardless, it’s weird to say it because I was annoyed with Bryson a while back also, but I’m on team Bryson at the minute.

        Brooks needs to chill out.

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          Tom Edrington

          I think if you suggested to Brooks’ face that he’s threatened, well, I wouldn’t….lol

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    baxter cepeda

    Just saying since this is a psychology article; often someone acting like this shows insecurity.

    I would be trying to get brooks chill out on the Twitt spats and instead focus on himself winning majors again; because he has as good chance as anyone.

    It’s the same question Butch asked Rickie. What does Brooks want? Majors? Or this passive aggressive or downright aggressive Twitter persona from disrespecting his colleagues?

    Brooks may be the next Johnny Miller we are waiting for someday. But the way I remember brooks has had his best playing success when he was quiet and no one really cared. I’m not saying go all the way back there; but maybe just a little…for now.

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      Tom Edrington

      Bryson is the more “personable” of the two, Bryson wants to be liked; Brooks could care less, hence if you were to ask those who do the golf broadcasts, I believe, off the record, their most common description of Koepka’s personality would be: “Surly”

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