So the Tour is taking action, and as you'd expect, the "Brooksie" clowns have screwed it up for everyone. (That decked fan would have landed gently on a bed of personal injury lawyers' cards immediately flung in his direction, if nothing else.) But everyone has their breaking point.ĭeChambeau punching out a heckler would've gone a long way to getting golf fans (and probably more than a few players) on his side, but that understandably is not what the PGA Tour would like to see. DeChambeau had been hearing, and ignoring, that kind of taunt all week. A rope line is little more than a polite suggestion when it comes to security at a golf tournament. Maybe not "Malice at the Palace" bad, but in that moment, nothing would've surprised me. I'm being dead serious when I say it could have gotten ugly really fast. As ESPN's Kevin Van Valkenburg recounted in a strong post-round story: Sunday, at the conclusion of an otherwise magnetic BMW Championship, DeChambeau had apparently heard enough. Hearing a merciless, constant stream of jabs, directed with what's-the-matter, can't-take-a-joke topspin is something else entirely. Hearing generalized attempts at humor is one thing. Shouts of "Brooksie!" now trail DeChambeau like hungry seagulls looking for french fries. Koepka is indubitably cooler than DeChambeau, which means the kind of golf fan who thinks it's a good idea to bellow out slogans on a golf course now thinks it's a really good idea to go after DeChambeau. Koepka is the winner on every judge's card, running the table in every category except actual tournaments won. (Saying "get in the hole!" on a par 5? That's silly, you little scamps!)Ĭareful what you wish for, though, because as of mid-2021 there's a new heckle on Tour, and it's now reached the status of Serious Problem.īryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka, the golf world's Hulk and Thor, have spent the last two years or so in a rivalry that's rarely risen above "trash talk on your fantasy football draft night" heat, but for golf, that's pretty much a nuclear rage. For most of the golf-as-an-SEC-tailgate era, the only real complaint was that the shouts were so uninspired. Most pros shrug off the fan yelping as an annoying but necessary part of the game - the customer base isn't all well-mannered, buttoned-down golf clap types, of course.
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