Brooks Koepka hasn’t impressed Brandel Chamblee enough with his golfing, but perhaps his Photoshopping will do the trick.
In the past month, Chamblee, the Golf Channel analyst, has ripped Koepka for his weight loss and questioned his toughness. His latest slight was by omission.
It started with a simple question about whether Tiger Woods was currently the best golfer.
“I don’t know that the difference is going to be as substantial as it used to be. His putting is slightly worse, he’s not quite as long …” Chamblee said on a recent podcast with another Golf Channel analyst, Jaime Diaz. “He’s certainly there — he’s thereabouts. I think again if you’re just looking at one aspect of a fluidity, yes, he probably is.”
Chamblee then pointed to Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy as “the likely two who could hang with” Woods, before mentioning Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth as other candidates who had flaws.
“Irrespective of the World Rankings, I think all of us know what we need to know without the World Rankings telling us, and it’s Rory and it’s Dustin Johnson and it’s Tiger Woods, but Tiger’s simply not going to play enough to get the points that he needs to get,” Chamblee said.
Koepka, the No. 3 golfer in the current world rankings, got word that he wasn’t included in the contenders and retweeted a link to the comments with a photo of Chamblee that Photoshopped on a clown nose.
RT @dylan_dethier: please, nobody tell Brooks Koepka https://t.co/bWkeoOlCXopic.twitter.com/DJ7CYbZO8h
— Brooks Koepka (@BKoepka) May 4, 2019
Last month, Koepka had to defend himself over his weight loss, which Chamblee called “reckless self sabotage” for “vanity reasons” — which the analyst connected to Koepka appearing in ESPN Magazine’s Body Issue.
“I don’t care what anybody else says,” Koepka said after his first round at the Masters. “I’m doing it for me, and obviously it seems to work.”
The same day, Chamblee was asked if Koepka — who has won three majors in a span of 14 months — was “tough enough” to win the Masters.
“His talent is undeniable,” Chamblee said. “But I’ve heard people say this. You extrapolate from accomplishment, you infer qualities from a human being like, ‘He’s really tough.’ Maybe he is, I don’t know. I got to say, I still need to be convinced.”
