Brooks Koepka: Providing the Commentary We Need
There can be a lot of monotony in golf. Fortunately, we have someone who is able to break that with their unique and unabashed personality in Brooks Koepka.
Golf is a vanilla sport. There is no way around this; it is an expensive activity played by mostly wealthy, white men which encourages uniformity and honor. The PGA Tour caters to this demographic and features bland corporate sponsors, such as Genesis, which sponsored last week’s tournament at the lovely Riviera. Brooks Koepka is having none of it.
Many golfers mirror the message of the PGA Tour; their shirts have numerous sponsors, they spend most of their interviews praising those companies, and they go out of their way to suppress any personality.
Koepka slices through this white noise like a knight in shining armor. His shirt features only the Nike swoosh, he openly discusses his ambivalence towards non-major tournaments, and the past 12 months have featured numerous off the cuff remarks that provide a jolt in the arm to the sleepy golf landscape.
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Brooks has mostly stayed out of the spotlight recently, which some think the golf world is making a big mistake in doing, but he graced us with his presence once again this week. After a nondescript 43rd place finish at Riviera, the four-time major champion did an AMA (ask me anything) with Bleacher Report and provided many juicy nuggets; my personal favorite is that he doesn’t track his hole-in-ones and made one at Augusta and forgot about it.
What a legend! I’ve never even sniffed an ace and cannot imagine shutting up when (if?) I finally make one.
The 29-year-old Floridian did not stop his tour de force, later going on SiriusXM Radio and continuing his bold commentary. He went right after American villain Patrick Reed, arguing that the 2018 Masters Champ clearly cheated and was ‘building sand castles‘. With Reed’s cheating scandal still rocking the golfing world and many, like Gary Williams of Golf Channel, defending the Augusta native, Brooks cut right through the BS and delivered his opinion in dead-pan fashion.
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Tiger Woods has moved the needle in golf for over two decades, and, as his career has wound down, Rory McIlroy has gracefully transitioned to be golf’s global ambassador. While these men are integral parts of the golfing community, Brooks Koepka plays arguably the most crucial role; brash, outspoken, and a champion. As golf continues to be polluted with a stale, corporate disease, we need Brooks and his spicy commentary more than ever.