Koepka isn’t sleepwalking into disaster
Spare a thought for Brooks Koepka this week.
The poor lamb is going to miss out on his nap time because of one of the greatest sporting shows on the planet.
Sports folk at that level are detached from reality at the best of times but Brooks took the biscuit this week, so much so it has to be a wind-up.
The Ryder Cup is up there with the World Cup and the Olympics in terms of global sporting events and most of us will be glued to it next weekend. Yet the USA’s star player is making it sound like he’s doing the school run with a hangover.
Koepka whined: “I take naps a lot. I might take an hour, hour-and-a-half nap, or just chill on the couch and watch Sports Centre before rounds, after rounds, whatever. There’s no time to do that at the Ryder Cup.
“There’s no time to decompress. It’s different. It’s hectic. It’s a bit odd, if
I’m honest. I don’t want to say it’s a bad week...”
Koepka coughed up this cracker in an interview last week but it simply must have been an attempt at mind games, a cackhanded ploy to make
Europe complacent. There’s no other explanation.
Koepka made the Ryder Cup sound like a pain in the backside. It’s obvious he’s not got weans.
Nap time and watching Sports Centre? The rest of us get off work and it’s soft play and Frozen on repeat at all times of the day.
It’s not just Brooks either.
His big pal Bryson DeChambeau says he is struggling going into this week because he has wrecked his hands as he prepares for the World’s Longest Drive tournament the following week. He must be at it as well.
Both Koepka and DeChambeau have played the PR game brilliantly in recent years.
They’ve got the world thinking they hate each other when they probably have marketing teams who meet every other day working out how to turn the game into the WWE.
We all buy into it because
driven nuts it’s good fun but most folk see through it.
They should also clock on to this Ryder Cup guff they are coming out with.
These geeks are not exactly Sir Alex Ferguson when it comes to mind games but fair play to them for trying.
They need to do something. Europe have won seven of the last nine Ryder Cups and if they win at Whistling Straits this week the competition might be nuked for good.
The US must be close to chucking it altogether as they clearly have lost the gist of this competition.
They’ve forgotten it’s a bit of fun. Team Europe have wiped the floor with them for two decades because they actually enjoy this week. They get to hang out with their mates and get a sense of what it’s like to be a team player.
There’s no actual pressure on them.
It’s not like a football team losing a derby when their fans can’t face going to work on the Monday. No one is going to be hiding under the desk once the dust has settled this weekend.
The Yanks are a shambles going in and maybe that’s their ploy but they shouldn’t need to play tricks.
Man for man their side is superb. It’s just a shame they all hate each other.
It will be fascinating to watch and we won’t be able to take our eyes off it.
Unlike Brooks, who will be struggling to keep his eyes open.
Koepka has made Ryder Cup sound like pain in backside.
It’s obvious that he’s not got weans