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19 May All-knowing experts make me cringe

Posted at 18:15h in Golf Tip by

I’ve mentioned before how I personally dislike golf commentators who seem to know everything and think that they have ‘been there and done that’ — most of their comments make me cringe.

The British commentators seem to be the worst, as all are obviously best friends and laugh together at the old, sad (often repeated) golf innuendos.

Therefore, it’s refreshing to see Brandel Chamblee get shutdown by his colleagues and several PGA players on his outspokenness. Recently he had a go at Brooks Koepka about his weight loss and toughness. He also said that Koepka is not at the same level as Dustin Johnson or Rory Mcllroy.

Brandel is now wondering whether Koepka is a great player. The argument that he put forward is that Koepka is just a power player who’s won on very long golf courses. As the PGA Championship comes to its conclusion, it will be interesting to see if this long course helps Koepka or not.

Not surprisingly, Koepka posted a photo of Chamblee with a clown nose. This whole episode brings up the old arguments of how commentators, who have never played too well themselves, can climb up to their perch and offer an opinion that can’t possibly relate to a situation that they’ve never actually ever been in.

If you can’t hit a cow’s backside with a cricket bat or have never been in a position of needing to post a score to pay some bills, then how on earth can you judge, or truly know what you’re talking about.

Out of Bounds: Spare a thought for poor Tyler Duncan who (on the 13th) hit his wife on the head when his approach sailed well to the right of the green. Tyler, a PGA Tour player, was playing in the AT&T Byron Nelson. He said that that his ball had mud on it — but nobody believed him!

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