Golf has never been known as a “tough” sport despite the fact it is one of the most mentally exhausting and taxing sports I have ever played. Then again, I usually get in my own way with my love of golf course Bud Lights and hot dogs on the turn – both taste 20 times better on the links, but that is neither here nor there.
Either way, with the PGA TOUR banning fans from yelling “Brooksy” at Bryson DeCahambeau on Tuesday just made the game of golf look that much softer.
What other sport bans hecklers? Even one of the greatest golf movies of all time, Happy Gilmore, had a guy in a bucket hat screaming “ya jackass” at Adam Sandler every chance he had.
But now in the 2021 cancel culture society we are living in; TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan has said that the shouting is “disrespectful and qualifies as harassing behavior under the TOUR’s updated fan conduct policy”.
Are you kidding me? Yelling a name is now harassment? And not even a foul name, just a normal human name to piss off a muscled up moron?
Oh wait, because Bryson decided to have a fit of roid rage after a fan yelled “great job Brooksy” while walking off his playoff loss to Cantlay, now the PGA wants to get involved? GTFO!
Maybe if Bryson would put down the protein shakes and stop acting like a total dick all the time then he not have so many people hating on him. He didn’t lose the BMW Championship because of heckling fans, he lost it because he couldn’t hit a putt. I watched him miss putt after putt and he was melting down inside his own head. Cantlay deserved to win that tournament, plain and simple.
Trust me, as a guy who is good for multiple golf course meltdown (at least a triple bogey on the front and back 9), he simply lost the confidence in his putter and started missing. But now because it is always someone else’s fault and we need to cancel everything, instead of saying that Bryson was a mental midget on the golf course, we are going to get the word “Brooksy” banned from the courses.
In Detroit it was his caddy’s fault. Then it was Cobra’s fault he hit 1 in 14 fairways at the British Open. Now it is people chanting “Brooksy” being the reason that he can’t hit a putt? Bryson, you can fuck right off with that nonsense. Unlike the rest of this generation, accept responsibility and just say that you lost!
We watched the 6 playoff holes at a bar in Charlotte and more people cheered for “Brooksy” to miss his putts than were cheering for the preseason football games.
Golf needs a villain and Douche-Chambeau is the perfect villain. He cannot get out of his own way. He pisses everyone off including fans, his caddies, sponsors, and other competitors. What more do you want? If he was smart, he should play in to his role as a villain. I bet more people would accept and/or maybe even like him if he was honest. If he was a Disney character, he would be the egotistical prick, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
Bryson is the bad guy the game of golf needs. Removing the taunts and jeers from the tournaments will definitely make them less fun. With Tiger Woods out and the PGA ratings at an all time low, wouldn’t you want to see what develops from the Koepka v. Douche-Chambeau rivalry? We only kept watching the playoff holes to ensure that Cryson lost.
In all seriousness, besides die-hard fans, who else is watching non-major golf tournaments on the weekends? Wouldn’t you want to have ESPN and other major sports shows covering the drama unfolding on the course? I guarantee if it was a Koepka vs DoucheChambeau playoff, it would be one of golf’s highest TV ratings.
With regards to Bryson as a person, the guy needs to learn to lose with grace and not be such a cry-baby-bitch when he doesn’t get his way. The only reason the fans yell and taunt you is because you meltdown and it is funny to watch. It is like what I tell the kids, “If you want them to stop, don’t let them know if affects you”. But instead, he throws a hissy fit over something new on a weekly basis.
Grow a sack, embrace the nickname, and show the fans you may have some likeableness in there. I would love you if you were to have them call you Brooksy during the introductions. Or have your caddy wear Brooksy on his vest. It is ok to laugh at yourself every now and then dickhead. But instead, you run to mommy and daddy and have them make new rules to protect your feelings. Grow the fuck up you entitled, millionaire bitch.
And shame on you PGA for coddling this special snowflake. Again, I challenge you to name one other sport that you cannot heckle the players? Especially with something as silly as “Brooksy”.
This is a bad look for golf and an even worse look for Brooksy!
If we are looking at Happy Gilmore, admittedly a fun comedy [but just a movie] as a beacon of golf etiquette, we have gone down the wrong tunnel.
Haha we weren’t necessarily using it as golf etiquette, but more of a funny example of heckling.