He talks softly and carries a big stick.
He’s a man of few words, this Brooks Koepka, but now when he does speak, people better listen up.
If a picture is worth a thousand words then Brooks Koepka’s golf game is worth a million. He collected more than that last Sunday, nearly $2 million thanks to his record performance at the 100th PGA Championship.
But no sooner than you can say “Ryder Cup,” before the early odds for the 2019 Masters have been presented to us by the goodfellas at Westgate Las Vegas.
Guess what? Your early favorite is not, repeat, IS NOT Brooks Koepka.
Westgate has psycho-boy Jordan Spieth the early betting choice at 10/1.
Next at 12/1 — those books have Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas all at that number.
You have to get down to 14/1 to find Brooks along with “I can’t find a fairway, hit a wedge close or make a putt” Rory McIlroy.
No respect for the man who has won three of the last six majors he’s played in.
Guess Westgate didn’t get that stat.
Doesn’t matter. Brooks doesn’t care.
If anything, it will make him that much more motivated.
Just call him golf’s most over-looked superstar.
After he shot 69 in the first round last week at Bellerive, no one in the media wanted to talk to him.
During the week, he’d go to a local gym with his pal, D.J., and everyone wanted a selfie with D.J. Everyone ignored the big kid with him.
Over at the Golf Channel, they’re still falling all over themselves talking about Tiger Woods, thinking out loud that this Tiger comeback is stronger than the one made by Ben Hogan after he was nearly killed in a head-on crash with a bus.
Yeah, Tiger’s only got one problem — the depth of the talent pool these days.
Someone suggested on Sunday that Koepka should go back into that local gym, hoist the Wanamaker and shout out: How Do You Like Me Now?
In fact, that’s what he should holler at Tiger, Rory, D.J., Speith, Rahm, hell everyone.
But Brooks won’t do it. It’s not his style. He didn’t go on the “media tour” to New York to do all the late night shows and morning shows with all the networks the first time he won the U.S. Open. He also passed when he won back-to-back two months ago at Shinnecock.
Yeah, he’s totally Clark Kent. Mild mannered, overlooked by day, Super Man when needed.
Brooks doesn’t need a phone booth. He just shows up at a major championship.
A former athletic department staffer at Florida State referred to Koepka as FSU’s new “Prime Time” remembering Deion Sanders and the moniker that Deion gave himself.
In reality, Brooks is the anti-Deion. No boasting, no bragging, no touchdown dances. Heck, Deion would probably have tried to hang the Wanamaker around his neck if he had won it.
Not Brooks. By now it’s probably stashed somewhere in his kitchen.
So yes, go ahead and disregard Brooks Koepka.
Won’t bother him. Will probably make him that much more determined and that’s the last thing a guy like Tiger Woods needs come next April.
In the meantime, since Brooks won’t do it, we’ll do it for him:
Hey Tiger, Hey D.J., Hey Jordy, Hey Justin, Hey Patrick:
How The Hell Do You Like Brooks Koepka Now?
2 Comments
jlevers60
Why does this reporter call Jordan Spieth a “psycho-boy”. He may not be at the top of his golf game right now, but he’s close and doesn’t throw hissy fits that I’ve seen like some other golfers do.
Tom Edrington
Ah, you’ve missed a couple of Jordys hissy-fits, he’s thrown two or three lately, when he hit his ball into 17 on Saturday at the PGA, took the ball and fired it full force back into the creek….slammed some clubs, yelled at himself fairly loud at times…..sorry you missed it, it was good.