How Brooks Koepka’s LEGACY was impacted by LIV Golf Dallas | Colin Cowherd Podcast

Colin Cowherd is joined by ‘3 & Out’ host John Middlekauff to react to the latest in LIV Golf. They react to Brooks Koepka’s behavior after starting slow and eventually withdrawing from the tournament. Was he out of line? How will this impact his legacy?

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what what do you think happened to Brooks Kepka who I thought 18 months ago was going to post sort of the career that Dashambo I mean Dambo really changed not only his marketing and likability and relatability um he feels like the better golfer i would not have guessed that i thought he was a bit of a I I thought he was too over the top to Shambo i thought it was all off the tea well he’s become a more complete golfer brooks Kepka I mean again you get that live money i get it you know you you win and uh you know these good-looking young guys like Rory Mroy right now is in a weird space where like he won at Augusta and and acknowledged it’s hard to get up in the morning it’s hard to work on the short game for 5 hours at you know on a Tuesday and it was to say that publicly was like well that is that is something to say publicly but where is Brooks Kepka now i do wonder if you know when he went to live there were a lot of question marks with him physically and then within six months he won the PJ championship and he proved to everybody like “Hey guys I’m still here.” And I I I I do wonder if there’s an element like Rory where like sitting on the range in that Florida heat for three hours you look at your clock you’ve been there for 45 minutes you’re like “Uh I think I’m gonna go into the clubhouse you know i think I’m gonna go get an Arnold Palmer and uh go hang out with my wife.” These guy Brooks have won five majors right he’s he’s one of the greatest American champions in the history of the sport unique career right cuz not like he has 40 wins in five majors i think he only has like 10 or 11 PJ tour wins i don’t think he’s ever won maybe one time on live uh but he’s just a great major player you know physically uh you know Brooks is was an older it’s like a Bo Knicks or whatever when he kind of came onto the scene because he had been playing like international tours the Asian tour a little bit of a late bloomer uh and right now I mean I I don’t know what was going on this week but he he’s he has not played well you know I that’s where I think Bryson I I do think Rory’s comments you know listen I grew up on 90s athletes they were rich but there was an element where it felt like they weren’t i LeBron just opted in he’s almost made $600 million in his career that’s just the basketball court right i mean that’s a lot of money right i mean you Kirk Cousins 300 Derek Carr is like yeah made a $210 million I’m out he’s 34 years old look how much money Joe Montana and Steve Young made in their career careers combined so the money now Rory’s probably made I don’t know if I had to go $500 million on and off the golf course maybe more
and he’s just telling you you know I’m 35 is I kind of get bored practicing and I you know Kepka was already really well off before he went to live it’s got to I always listen Colin I admire your work ethic going to that meeting thinking like it it inspires me like you get up you’re in that meeting 6:00 we’re grinding i’m like damn this guy is bringing it there’s a passion and listen there’s a passion to Brady there’s a passion to Tiger not everyone has that and I do think it’s difficult like if you just handed me a hundred million dollars right now at 40 am I going to have the same work ethic in five years i don’t know i mean these guys have made so much money so I I do just wonder the impact in golf
at least in football because you go “God are eventually some of these football guys going to stop?” Well they get yelled at every practice
you You ever go to a training session like it’s hot everyone’s sweating people are screaming and golf is just kind of you out there on the range
and and these guys are practicing at like uh Michael Jordan’s course i mean it’s there’s other It’s pretty cool you’re like “Do I even want to sit out on this range right now?” So it’s it’s hard sorry to interrupt this great video but please remember to like and subscribe thank you now back to the video no I I’ve always felt that about golfers is that um you know it’s it’s almost like boxers i always wondered why boxers because a pay-per-view I mean boxers were the highest paid athletes for a lot of my life conor McGregor you can make you can make $40 million in a fight
make like three flights like $500 million or something
yeah it’s like Yeah i’d be done fighting like you mean there’s brain damage there’s brain trauma so boxing not in UFC but um you know I I do I think the media sometimes has this wonderment like you know I can’t figure out Rory and I’m like greatl looking guy made a lot of money his dream was Augusta i mean he won on his 17th trip and it’s like he’s human like man he just he’s just exhaling and I totally get it it’s you know it’s the old Marvin Haggler hard to you know it’s hard to get up for that 5 a.m run when you’re sleeping on silk sheets like it’s just the reality of it so I think people are trying to figure out Rory and I I think you know the other thing John is you just forget a golf’s really hard it’s an incredible grind and Rory looks young right brooks Kepka they’re good-looking they’re in shape they look young i mean how just think you play Augusta 17 years so just to get there takes a while so I think sometimes we forget with with some of these some of these golfers and some of these athletes like foot in football we have stats we keep those and in golf we talk about majors but we don’t really talk about necessarily about years you know with Brady it’s the Super Bowl year or the year he eliminated roy Mroy has been playing high-end golf and by the way international golf you know he’s I just get it i think I think I think he’s taking a big exhale for a year and he doesn’t quite know how to communicate that with us
and I also think like uh in basketball or football even if you just get into somewhat of a rut and get a little content after a couple games if you’re let’s say you know you’re Draymond or Steph all of a sudden you’re kind of getting embarrassed out there on the court for a couple weeks you’re like this no more of this right and in football all of a sudden you get hit or tackled you’re like this sucks right so they’re in golf you’re like “Whatever I just miss the cut go home.” It’s not like you know especially once you’ve got to their level the the caddy’s already super rich as well i mean Maria’s in this luxury real estate world out here and they have they’re caddies go look at homes worth $4 or5 million they’re caddies this is these aren’t Tiger Woods caddies these are caddies of just you know the 40th player in the world or the 50 the amount of money that’s gone out there in that sport like these other sports but even in football basketball you still have your teammates that rely on you you are a good example of like you have this company people relying on you fox you’re you’re in who’s really it’s just Rory right and that’s
right
i think sometimes we compare everything to Tiger like we compare everything to Michael those personalities are not normal they are the extreme Tom they’re the extreme outlier like Tom and Payton we got very spoiled these two guys at the same time they were both pretty wired the same way of just do whatever it takes for as long as it takes till they’re basically dragged off the field you know that’s most quarterbacks yeah whatever you know that’s that’s kind of the case