GQ Longform Piece on Brooks Koepka

[nevets88]

Haven't finished the piece yet. I do know he talks about private clubs being stuffy and that should change.

Brooks Koepka, the World's Best Golfer, Has Some Issues With Golf

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The sport’s most dominant, most inscrutable player thinks the game is boring. But he also knows how to fix it.

 

[billchao]

I started reading it, then I got bored. I guess they’re trying to make him more interesting by showing his “boring” personality is a calculated persona, but then that just made me care less because it seemed like he was trying too hard to be cool.

[Vinsk]

59 minutes ago, billchao said:

I started reading it, then I got bored. I guess they’re trying to make him more interesting by showing his “boring” personality is a calculated persona, but then that just made me care less because it seemed like he was trying too hard to be cool.

Damn...actually exactly how I felt  after reading it. I don’t buy his gig. IMO  he wishes he was  more interesting. He’s just not. He’s a dud. He’d rather be in the gym or playing baseball. Fine. I don’t dislike him I just don’t care if he’s playing or not. 

[billchao]

5 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Damn...actually exactly how I felt  after reading it. I don’t buy his gig. IMO  he wishes he was  more interesting. He’s just not. He’s a dud. He’d rather be in the gym or playing baseball. Fine. I don’t dislike him I just don’t care if he’s playing or not. 

I don’t dislike him either, I just don’t care. Kind of telling that a piece that’s supposed to shine him in a more interesting light failed to do so. It (he) couldn’t keep me interested enough to even finish reading.

I hope he keeps winning majors. That’s cool for golf. It won’t make me any more interested in him as a person.

[Double Mocha Man]

Tiger got excited.  Like the rest of us when we make a putt... for the non-descript scramble we're playing in that nobody's ever heard of...

Tiger was Arnie v.2.

Poor Brooks.  You either got it or you don't.

[Vinsk]

“If I could do it over again, I'd play baseball—100 percent, no doubt,” he said in the past. “To be honest, I'm not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.

And yet he’s one of the most boring players out there. And if he feels so lackadaisical about non-major tournaments that could be a time to loosen up and show some enjoyment. I think he’s just a real dud who wants to be perceived as real interesting and it’s like @Double Mocha Man said, he just ain’t got it.