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Dave Portnoy reignites feud with Brooks Koepka while revelling in his Masters heartache

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If you’re looking for a man to cross who will forgive and forget, then that man is certainly not Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.

El Pres recently cashed in with a sale of Barstool Sports for hundreds of millions, and he’s currently enjoying the finer things in life with a trip to Italy, but has that stopped the 46-year-old from denouncing those who have crossed him in the past? Absolutely not.

Over the weekend, Portnoy took time out of his Venice adventure to vehemently root against Brooks Koepka, who he explosively described in 2021 as a “scumbag piece of s***’. 

If you aren’t aware of the initial beef between the two, here’s what allegedly went down between both men. Per Portnoy, who was speaking on his podcast with @EddieBarstool last summer:

“We had the match set-up for $250,000, Lefty vs Lefty (Koepka was required to play left-handed). He got injured. Whatever, s*** happens – the weekend before we were supposed to play. He DMs (Direct Messages) me, going, ‘Sorry, we’ll reschedule it. No problem.”

“There was a lot of work on our end, Eddie, to get this thing set-up. The broadcaster, the tech-side, hours and hours and hours of setting this thing up, all on our end. Next thing you know, I don’t hear from him and he is going, ‘Hey! I’m doing this match with Bryson DeChambeau”

“Listen, you do you. To not give me a heads up, he was not doing that first and after all the work we put in to our thing… Scumbag, piece of s***! If I wasted somebody’s time and energy, not just mine, it wasn’t actually mine, it was our company’s, granted. I was practicing and injuring my shoulder. If I wasted that much time – it wasn’t his fault that he got hurt – but the courtesy to go, ‘Hey, I got this opportunity to do this first, then we will do you.’ What a piece of s***. Not even a – ‘I should have told you’, nothing, what a piece of s***.”

Cut to the 2023 Masters, and with Koepka leading at the halfway stage, Portnoy was not about to let his vacation get in the way of reigniting his feud with Koepka and cheering against his foe at all costs.

Cut to Sunday, and Koepka was out-gunned by Jon Rahm, a defeat which it’s fair to say Portnoy took particular pleasure in throughout the day (or evening and night as it was in Venice at the time).

Whether El Pres dunking on Brooks as the 4-time champ suffered a particularly rough moment will spark a reaction remains to be seen. If a Match ever did get played between the two, though, it may be one of the few golf showdowns where the animosity between the two participants is very much real.

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Gianni is the Managing Editor at GolfWRX. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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“Is it a Titleist?” – Jerry Seinfeld shares never-before-heard details of iconic scene

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On Thursday, legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld joined the Rich Eisen Show and shared an awesome story from a “Seinfeld” episode titled “The Marine Biologist.”

In the episode, a golf ball goes into the blow hole of a whale. According to Seinfeld, that was never in the episode’s script.

Seinfeld recalls saying the night before the filming of the episode, “What if what puts the whale in distress is Kramer’s golf ball?”

“He’s hitting golf balls at the beach. George is at the beach with a girl, we haven’t connected them!”

“We write that speech the night before at two o’clock in the morning…The sea was angry that day my friend.”

 

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Kramer finishes the iconic scene by asking “Is it a Titleist?” Seinfeld told Eisen the show sought Titleist’s permission to mention its name, saying the ball had to be a Titleist. Fortunately for lovers of the iconic show, the company agreed.

If (somehow) you’re unfamiliar with the scene, check it out below.

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Phil Mickelson drops big retirement hint; Says LIV will grow the game ‘on a much more global basis’

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While speaking with Bloomberg, golf legend Phil Mickelson acknowledged that he is inching close towards retirement.

“I’m 53 now,” Phil said, “and my career, you know, it’s — if I’m being truthful, it’s on — it’s — it’s — I’m a — it’s towards its end.”

Mickelson added that one of his focuses now is helping other young players.

“Now, I would like to help others find the same enjoyment and fulfillment that the game has provided me. I’d like them to experience that as well.”

The six-time major champion credited LIV with reaching new markets in golf to help it grow.

“I think that’s exciting for everyone involved in the game because we are going to reach markets that we didn’t reach before. I think it’s going to inspire more golf courses, inspire more manufacturers selling clubs and equipment, but also inspiring young kids to try to play golf professionally. I just see that the game of golf is going to grow on a much more global basis because of the excitement and the presence that LIV Golf has.”

Mickelson is playing at this week’s LIV Singapore and shot a first round 72 (+1).

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Tiger explains why golf has ‘negative connotations’ for daughter Sam

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While Tiger Woods’ son, Charlie, has certainly inherited his father’s love for golf, his daughter, Sam, has not.

On Wednesday, Tiger made an appearance on The Today Show with Carson Daly and explained his daughter’s relationship with golf.

“Golf has negative connotations for her. When she was growing up, golf took daddy away from her. I had to pack, I had to leave, and I was gone for weeks. So, there were negative connotations to it.

“We developed our own relationship and our own rapport outside of golf. We do things that doesn’t involve golf. Meanwhile, my son and I, everything we do is golf related.”

The nine-minute interview touches on plenty of other subjects, such as Tiger’s relationship with his late father, Earl.

It’s arguably the most open we’ve seen the 15-time major champion in an interview and is most definitely worth watching.

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