Koepka’s problem with golf

Brooks Koepka acts like he’d rather be anything but a golfer, said Daniel Riley in GQ. He’s one of the PGA Tour’s most dominant players, having won an astonishing four major championships in his first nine attempts. Yet Koepka, 29, can appear to take little joy in the sport. He has called golf “kind of boring,” criticized its country club sensibilities—Koepka has ruffled feathers by wearing high-fashion Off-White brand golf shoes in tournaments— and makes little effort to be buddy-buddy with his peers. “This might come across the wrong way,” he explains, “but I already have enough friends.” Koepka says he understands that people mistake his attitude “for me not loving the game. I absolutely love the game. I don’t love the stuffy atmosphere that comes along with it.” When he practices near his house in Jupiter, Fla., Koepka wears tennis shoes and keeps his shirt untucked, usually playing 18 holes in under two hours. In tournaments, rounds can take five hours, and he’s gotten in spats with opponents who agonize over every shot. Koepka sometimes goes to the bathroom midround just to pass time. “Golf has always had this persona of the triple-pleated khaki pants,” he says. “It’s supposed to be a gentleman’s sport.

And that’s where they lose a lot of people. They just do.”

Why Azaria stopped voicing Apu

At first, Hank Azaria didn’t see what the big deal was, said Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times. Azaria, a white Jewish man, has voiced dozens of absurd characters on The Simpsons since the show debuted in 1990. They include Apu, the Indian proprietor of the Kwik-E-Mart who speaks in an exaggerated ethnic accent and has the catchphrase “Thank you! Come again!” But in recent years, a growing number of critics—many of them of Indian descent—have denounced Apu as a bigoted caricature and demanded Azaria stop voicing him. Azaria, 55, was defensive at first. “We make fun of everyone,” he recalls thinking. “Don’t tell me how to be funny.” He had based the character on the South Asian convenience store clerks he heard growing up in New York City. But Azaria says he also drew inspiration from the 1968 comedy The Party, in which Peter Sellers wore brownface to play a bumbling Indian. “That represents a real blind spot. There I am, joyfully basing a character on what was already considered quite upsetting.” A year ago Azaria told the show’s producers that he’d finished voicing Apu. His attitude flipped when he imagined the viewer’s perspective. “If that character were the only representation of Jewish people in American culture for 20 years, which was the case with Apu, I might not love that.”