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5. Chamblee eats crow
On Sunday night’s edition of “Live From the PGA Championship,
- “He’s made a believer out of me,” Chamblee said. “I don’t know that anybody saw this coming,” Chamblee said, referring to Koepka’s four major championship wins in two years. “We saw his talent. We knew how good he was. We knew how far he hit it. We knew that he had good touch around and on the greens. But how is it that a man who’s only won twice in regular Tour events shows up at the events with the thickest pressure, that mean the most, with the most mental hurdles that everybody else trips over, and he just glides right over them, one by one by one? That’s miraculous, is what it is.”
6. Runner-up slam
AFP report…”Back-to-back major runner-up efforts have given Dustin Johnson confidence in his game even as he settled for a career Runner-up Grand Slam by finishing second Sunday at the PGA Championship”
- “…Johnson, whose only major win came at the 2016 US Open, has runner-up major finishes at the 2011 British Open, 2015 US Open, last month’s Masters and the PGA.”
- “But he’s in good company with the “Second-place Slam” alongside Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen, Tom Watson and Craig Wood.”
7. How Koepka avoided collapse
The New York Post’s Mark Cannizzaro…
- “Surely, after the way he’d manhandled the brutal Black Course for the first 3.5 rounds, the steely Koepka would be as rock solid as anyone to complete the job.”
- “Until it looked like he wasn’t.”
- “With Johnson hanging around, Koepka started skidding out of control like a car with bald tires in a rainstorm on the LIE, carding four consecutive bogeys on Nos. 11, 12, 13 and – of all places – the par-3 14th, the shortest hole on the course, where he shocked himself by airmailing the green.”
- “Those gaffes, along with a Johnson birdie on No. 15 (he was the only player in the field to make birdie on 15 in all four rounds), turned what was once a seven-shot lead into a throat-drying, one-shot differential.”
8. Meanwhile, at the U.S. Senior Women’s Open…
John Strege at Golf Digest…
- “Helen Alfredsson predominantly is a recreational golfer these days, better than most recreational golfers, of course, but Nassaus and skins games with friends, however spirited, don’t remotely replicate tournament golf.”
- “Yet Alfredsson, always competitive, often fiery so, somehow cobbled together a game better than good enough to compete, good enough to win a national championship.”
- “Alfredsson, a 54-year-old Swede, won the second U.S. Senior Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C., on Sunday, defeating Juli Inkster and England’s Trish Johnson by two strokes. She received $180,000 for the victory.”
9. Jena Sims: Denied
Important, no? But an awkward moment plenty are talking out…and sure to be a meme if it isn’t already.
- Rod Ardehali for the Daily Mail…”The pair are filmed walking together with Koepka deep in thought as his rivals, including fellow champion Dustin Johnson, mounted a charge on his lead.”
- “Sims gets close to him twice and tries to give him a kiss but he shrugs it off and continues walking. When she goes back in again, the golfer pulls back – to the ire of his girlfriend, who folds her arms and walks ahead of him.”
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Speedy
May 21, 2019 at 1:05 pm
Rumor has it, Brandel (56) got hurt jumping off The Tiger Bandwagon.
Tom Intihar
May 20, 2019 at 2:49 pm
Chamblee has, for several years as an “analyst,” ripped on players with his insight into the game. This “insight” includes no major titles during his career. He seems to relish in controversy. He’s got an ego bigger than Bethpage Black. I kinda feel sorry for him in a way. It’s obvious that he must feel slighted to not have been a major champion and the fact that golf giants such as Todd Hamilton and Shawn Micheel have a major and he doesn’t. So, he uses his analyst job to show everyone how much he knows about golf and how low his self esteem is. By the way, Mr. Analyst, Brooks has won now defended two majors. Any idea how difficult that is? I hope he wins a third US Open next month too.
Johnny Penso
May 20, 2019 at 11:07 pm
Chamblee’s goal and indeed his job, is to generate clicks and views and it seems to me he’s doing a pretty fine job. If you polled golf fans I’d bet there are few that don’t have an opinion on him one way or the other, but the point is, he’s not just another faceless, unknown analyst on tv.