Akshay Bhatia was utterly shocked that Brooks Koepka wasn't carrying this item at TPC Sawgrass
Tracy Wilcox
If you've not yet seen "Chasing Sunday," the PGA Tour's new all-access look at last week' Players Championship, which was made with the help of NFL Films, you should drop what you're doing and watch it now. And, lucky for you, that's doable as the whole thing is on YouTube, free of charge.
It is perhaps the best piece of content the PGA Tour has ever put out, featuring four mic'd up players—Akshay Bhatia, Rickie Fowler, Si Woo Kim and Chris Gotterup—and an inside-the-ropes look at their week at the tour's biggest event. There are an endless amount of great nuggets in the nearly hour-long mini doc, but the one that picked up a ton of steam on Wednesday was an incredible exchange between Bhatia and one of his playing partners, a man you may have heard of, Brooks Koepka.
In the clip, shared by CBS Sports' Patrick McDonald, you'll hear Bhatia ask the five-time major champion "you don't carry a yardage book?" To which Koepka, in the most Koepka way possible, bluntly replies: "No."
The clip then cuts to Bhatia and his veteran Joe Greiner attempting to wrap their heads around that, and it's a phenomenal watch:
Really great stuff. And all the proof you need that simply throwing mics on a few players and letting them be themselves in their place of work is still the best content there is. See: Hard Knocks.
Some people might see this and think "well, that's why Koepka has stunk it up at Sawgrass over the years." Others will see it and think, "yeah, that explains his career success." No B.S. Point and shoot. If you'll notice at the end, his caddie, Ricky Elliott, said to Greiner "I said to him, to you f---in' like driver up there? Do you? And [Brooks] goes 'yeah.'" Easy as that. Guy's got five majors, nine tour wins and four Ryder Cup appearances. Seems like his style is working out alright, career-wise.