Bryson DeChambeau: Brooks Koepka would ‘kick my ass’

Bryson DeChambeau continued his declarations of honesty when the overtly analytical golfer admitted that his rival, the muscle-bound Brooks Koepka, would “kick my ass” if the two actually got into a fight.

Turns out the two golfers were never that close to a physical altercation, despite some harsh words between them regarding DeChambeau’s penchant for slow play and Koepka’s loathing for that lethargic pace on the PGA Tour. At The Northern Trust this past week at Liberty National in Jersey City, the two met for a word on the practice green before Sunday’s final round and squashed their differences.

“Let’s be honest, we know who would win that fight,” DeChambeau said Tuesday on Michael Collin’s SiriusXM radio show. “And it’s not me.”

Koepka, who was also on the show, chimed in to agree.

“You got that right,” he said.

Koepka has been the most vocal critic of slow play, and this particular dust-up started when two videos of DeChambeau taking very long to hit shots surfaced online after Friday’s round in Jersey. By Saturday, both players were talking about it publicly, and by Sunday morning, DeChambeau approached Koepka’s caddie before the round and told him that he wanted to have a word with his boss.

After the round, both players tried to brush it off, and on Monday, DeChambeau posted a diatribe on Instagram finally admitting that he is slow and needs to play faster. For Koepka, that is the first step in fixing the problem.

“The guys that are slow have to acknowledge they are slow. Go back. Go watch film,” Koepka said. “The best thing I ever did was when I was in college, I had an anger issue. I went back and watched footage of myself. From when I was in college, a guy went out and filmed all 18 holes and I realized how I acted. How I slammed a club. How I did this, was kicking the bag. I was walking with my head down, shoulders hunched. You’re not giving good body language.

“You finally start to see it for yourself and you’re like, ‘Wow, that’s bad, I can’t be doing that.’ So go watch yourself. Go figure it out.”

As both players prepared for the BMW Championship, the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs that began Thursday outside of Chicago, it seems as if that message has gotten through to DeChambeau.

“How much faster are we really going to make this? Fifteen minutes? I don’t know the answer,” DeChambeau said. “I want to make it faster. No doubt. Hell, yeah. I would love it if I was done in two hours and ‘see ya later.’ I’d be playing Fortnite all day long.”

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