Step Brothers
Brooks Koepka delivers perfect response to Bryson DeChambeau’s announcement of LIV vs. PGA Tour match
David Becker
This weekend, Bryson DeChambeau took to X to confirm the long-rumored match between himself and LIV compatriot Brooks Koepka and PGA Tour stars Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler. The announcement was significant less for what it confirmed—which was oddly announced in a press release 10 days before DeChambeau made the news “official”—but the multiple hatchets it seemed to bury.
The most obvious, of course, was the ongoing Cold War between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, who have been trying to broker peace for well over a year. The upcoming crossover seems to be yet another step toward reunifying professional golf. Then there’s the small matter of Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, who not so long ago loathed the mere presence of each other with a zeal typically reserved for heavyweight boxing rivals. That all seems to be water under the Hogan Bridge, however, as Koepka responded to DeChambeau’s tweet on Saturday with a perfect quote plucked straight from the script of ‘Step Brothers.’
This is irrefutable proof that time heals all wounds … or at the very least that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Koepka and DeChambeau presided over one of the pettiest feuds in sports history, insulting each other’s abs, rolling their eyes at one another on national TV and offering free beer to fans to taunt the other. At times, the bickering bordered on bullying, and the PGA Tour even had to step in to put a stop to the antagonistic “Brooksy” chants. Now the duo are chumming it up as teammates and maybe even stacking their beds together to make bunk beds.
We’ll see where this goes from here, but with Brooks and Bryson seemingly maturing and on the same side of golf’s ongoing schism, we doubt this will be the last BFF behavior we see from the old foes.