Brooks Koepka has sat and waited to get into the last two signature events as an alternate only to head home Thursday after not getting into the events.
It's not the first time in his career it happened, but he also is understanding of the position he is in. Koepka is playing in Myrtle Beach this week.
"The way I look at it is I'm itching to get in, but I'm accepting of where I'm at, and I understand that there's prices to pay for coming back, and I'm willing to accept those and whatever I have to do.
"I knew this year was going to be challenging to even get in them. I kind of thought maybe by around U.S. Open, but to know that I'm kind of knocking on the door already is a good thing. Just the answer to everything is play better, and you're in."
I think two lessons from LIV will be ...
1. You can't solve time problems with money. It took 40 years of playing the Masters before people *really* started to care. You can't speed that up by signing big checks. You can't microwave history.
2. A modicum of humility goes a long way. Thumping your chest out of the gate and saying "we're gonna redefine a 200-year-old sport over the next few seasons" is not a good strategy. It might eventually be true (spoiler: it wasn't), but it does the opposite of what it probably feels like it's going to do. Most fans are smart, and immense hubris is rarely attractive in any business setting.
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"I probably enjoyed that shot a lot more than Max and Jordan did. Maybe about 1,000x as much." 😂
The first hole-in-one of this year's Masters Par 3 Contest belongs to Justin Thomas and sounds like he's bringing something else home as well 👀
Justin Rose has finished runner up on 3 occasions at the Masters, with painful playoff losses to Sergio Garcia in 2017 and last year to Rory McIlroy. Ahead of this years tournament he gave another classy answer on how he deals with adversity:
“I kind of realized that even before I won a major. I knew I was going to win some; I knew I was going to lose some. I kind of wanted to not get in my way too early, and I kind of realized when the opportunity presents myself to win a major, don't make it too important in the moment.
“Also, I kind of realized that you can't skip through a career without a little bit of heartache and heartbreak, no chance. If you're going to be willing to win them, you've got to be willing to kind of be on the wrong side of it as well.
“The key is showing up. The key is to try to be as free as you can in those moments. Yeah, you kind of have to hope a little bit along the way that it's your day. There's definitely been -- it could have been my day in a couple of major championships that I wouldn't have had to have done anything different really to be the winner as well. Hopefully with that mindset, keep chipping away, my day might still happen where a little bit of something goes my way.
“The point is you've got to put yourself there. That's the hard part. All we can do as players is to focus on our game, focus on our skill set, and make the odds in our favor the best we can. Sometimes the ultimate result, yeah, sometimes it's in your control, but sometimes there's a lot of other factors and little bits of movement that all have to kind of sync up.
“The better player you are, the more chances you're going to have and the more you're going to win.”
This is such a great quote and it sums up perfectly why it’s so hard to win golf tournaments, especially major championships.
Justin comes to Augusta National off the back of a T13 at The Players and a wire to wire win at The Farmers to climb him upto 9th in the World Rankings.
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Tiger Woods not listed in the early US Senior Open field but has registered to play.
"Tiger has entered the championship, simply to ensure eligibility," a USGA spokesperson said, "but will not make a decision about playing until a later date."