Perhaps Brooks Koepka wanted Jon Rahm to celebrate his eagle putt right in his face. He was close enough, it wouldn’t have been so strange for him to roar in his face. But then he might have labelled him as deranged. Or a child, how strange.
Koepka wasn’t bothered by Jon sinking the eagle putt with his little or a lot of luck; not at all, not at all, what really upset him is that Jon didn’t celebrate it as he believes an adult should. Brooks, enlighten us.
Because sooner or later Brooks ends up explaining to us how a tough guy, self-made, should behave on the golf course and in life. We must be attentive, not miss a sentence of his, he is a walking manual. We don’t follow or admire him for the Majors he wins; we do so mainly because he is a tough guy, with clear ideas and firm convictions, who goes straight ahead and says what he thinks to your face. Enlighten us, enlighten us.
Anyone with a bit of common sense understands that Jon didn’t celebrate out of modesty. He wanted to reach the hole, it’s true, but he had grossly overdone it. And what Brooks Koepka calls pouting was nothing more than grimaces of disbelief.
Brooks’s thing is not a childish tantrum, the children are others. It’s a tough and wise life lesson.
