When Brooks Koepka doesn’t get the result he wants, he’s in no mood to talk. Especially at major championships, which Koepka expects to win every time he plays.
Smith comes into Masters month after a three-week break from tournament golf following his runner-up finish in the LIV Golf event in Hong Kong where he was beaten in a playoff by Abraham Ancer.
Seve Ballesteros had won Spain’s national open three times (1981, 1985, 1995), needing 15 years to do it; Rahm was able to match the accomplishment in five years, having won in 2018 and 2019.
If Dustin Johnson showed up for his pre-Masters press conference on Tuesday afternoon and announced he’d had enough of the golf grind and was retiring at age 34, he could walk off into the Augusta sunset knowing his next metaphorical stop would be the World Golf Hall of Fame.