Don’t expect any mid-round interviews from Brooks Koepka anytime soon.
Last week at the European Tour’s Saudi International at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club, eventual champion Graeme McDowell received a slow playing warning after giving a TV interview during his second round.
Apparently Koepka was also asked and politely passed.
“To be honest with you, I don’t know any other sport that does interviews in the middle of play,” Koepka said Sunday. “I know in football you’re not doing it unless it’s the Pro Bowl. Basketball you’re not doing it unless it’s halftime. This is the only sport where you’re talking to people while they are playing.
“I won’t do it. I’m not interested in talking about what just happened or the difficulty of the holes ahead,” added Koepka. “I’m just focused on one shot at a time, where my ball’s at. I understand why it might be beneficial to the fans, but I don’t get it.”
While the European Tour claims that “in-course interviews are an important and integral part” of its broadcasts, the PGA Tour doesn’t interview players during rounds on a weekly basis like its European counterparts.
Koepka, the current World No. 1, will lose that title to Rory McIlroy when the Official World Golf Ranking is updated next Monday. McIlroy elected not to play this weekend while Koepka finished 17th.
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