{"id":101300,"date":"2021-07-17T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=101300"},"modified":"2021-07-17T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T04:00:51","slug":"koepkas-veiled-dig-at-rivals-open-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=101300","title":{"rendered":"Koepka&#039;s veiled dig at rival&#039;s Open woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooks Koepka couldn&#x27;t help himself.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after his second round at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\" title=\"British Open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">British Open<\/a>, the four-time major champion trolled rival Bryson DeChambeau following troubles with his driver. <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/british-open-bryson-dechambeau-says-driver-sucks-in-ugly-spat-with-cobra-louis-oosthuizen-leads-opening-round\/63f57aa3-9454-4521-b272-2a407b5f439c\" title=\"DeChambeau openly criticised his club yesterday after an opening-round 1-over 70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">DeChambeau openly criticised his club yesterday after an opening-round 1-over 70<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In comments he has now taken back, DeChambeau declared his driver &quot;sucks&quot; but l<a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/british-open-bryson-dechambeau-says-driver-sucks-in-ugly-spat-with-cobra-louis-oosthuizen-leads-opening-round\/63f57aa3-9454-4521-b272-2a407b5f439c\" title=\"ater apologised after a fiery backlash from manufacturer Cobra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ater apologised after a fiery backlash from manufacturer Cobra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Koepka, who finished with three straight birdies to move to five under, subtly jabbed DeChambeau when asked about his round.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought the wind died down compared to yesterday I didn&#x27;t think it was as bad so you can be a little bit more aggressive. &quot;Drove the ball great,&quot; Koepka said on Golf Channel with a slight grin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BKoepka\/status\/1416098785885769733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BKoepka\/status\/1416098785885769733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Love my driver. Everything is going really well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Koepka then had another go on social media, tweeting on Saturday morning: &quot;Driving into the weekend!&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau went into more detail about his &quot;unprofessional&quot; behaviour following the second round.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I made a mistake and as time goes on I&#x27;ll look back on this as a growing moment for me personally,&quot; DeChambeau said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hopefully I can make the right things go on from here on out. I didn&#x27;t mean it, it was in a heated situation and I feel really bad about it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They work incredibly hard and I know that. For me, I misspoke and I feel really bad about it. I hope we can move on in the right direction. I know we will, I will say and do all the right things for Cobra-Puma because they mean the world to me, they have done a lot for me.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6263854199001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/07\/370215\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"DeChambeau says driver &#x27;sucks&#x27;\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckr5dtvsp004v0hmq62s61gq7\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ll say it again; I&#x27;m very, very sorry. I misspoke in a heated moment. That got the best of me. We are working hard to do the best we possibly can.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Dechambeau confirmed his relationship with Cobra will endure the slip up.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They are fine,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s one of those things in the moment. We have been working for a long time, for four years, on the driver and still haven&#x27;t had the exact one that has it work for me at 195mph ball speed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are still working on it and I know we will get there, it&#x27;s just going to take some time. Yesterday I wasn&#x27;t driving it particularly well and it got the best of me unfortunately.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Koepka and DeChambeau&#x27;s running feud will be under the microscope later this year when both players take to the course for the USA against Europe in the Ryder Cup. <\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6f0cde4b-f142-42d6-aa9f-8c947f49328b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6f0cde4b-f142-42d6-aa9f-8c947f49328b\" alt=\"Bryson DeChambeau and Brooke Koepka\/\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can put it aside for business. If we&#x27;re going to be on the same team, I can deal with anybody in the world for a week,&quot; Koepka said leading into this weekend&#x27;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not playing with him. I&#x27;m pretty sure we&#x27;re not going to be paired together; put it that way.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re going to be high-fiving and having late-night conversations. I do my thing, he does his thing. We&#x27;re on the same team, but it&#x27;s not an issue at all.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brooks Koepka couldn&#x27;t help himself. Speaking after his second round at the British Open, the four-time major champion trolled rival Bryson DeChambeau following troubles with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=101300\" title=\"Koepka&#039;s veiled dig at rival&#039;s Open woes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101302,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300\/revisions\/101302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}