{"id":553606,"date":"2026-03-20T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:22:21","slug":"akshay-bhatia-was-utterly-shocked-that-brooks-koepka-wasnt-carrying-this-item-at-tpc-sawgrass-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553606\/","title":{"rendered":"Akshay Bhatia was utterly shocked that Brooks Koepka wasn&#8217;t carrying this item at TPC Sawgrass \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Tracy Wilcox]<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet seen \u201cChasing Sunday\u201d, the PGA Tour\u2019s new all-access look at last week\u2019s Players Championship, produced with help from NFL Films, you should stop what you\u2019re doing and watch it now. And, luckily for you, it\u2019s available on YouTube, free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/the-masters-launches-new-website-feature-that-will-have-golf-sickos-salivating\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Masters launches new website feature that will have golf fans salivating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might just be the best piece of content the PGA Tour has ever released, featuring four mic\u2019d-up players, Akshay Bhatia, Rickie Fowler, Si Woo Kim and Chris Gotterup\u2014and an inside-the-ropes look at their week at the tour\u2019s biggest event. There are endless great moments in the nearly hour-long mini doco, but the one that gathered the most buzz on Wednesday was a brilliant exchange between Bhatia and one of his playing partners, a bloke you may have heard of, Brooks Koepka.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, shared by CBS Sports\u2019 Patrick McDonald, you\u2019ll hear Bhatia ask the five-time major winner, \u201cYou don\u2019t carry a yardage book?\u201d To which Koepka, in classic Koepka fashion, bluntly replies: \u201cNah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clip then cuts to Bhatia and his veteran caddie, Joe Greiner, trying to wrap their heads around it, and it\u2019s a cracking watch:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s a lot of good stuff in the first Chasing Sunday. Akshay and Greiner wrapping their heads around Brooks not using a yardage book was particularly amusing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMt5UfabYy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gMt5UfabYy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick McDonald (@pmcdonaldCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pmcdonaldCBS\/status\/2034253035292020908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top shelf stuff. It just goes to show that sticking a mic on a few players and letting them be themselves at work is still the best kind of content out there. See: Hard Knocks.<\/p>\n<p>Some people might look at this and think, \u201cWell, that\u2019s why Koepka\u2019s struggled at Sawgrass over the years.\u201d Others will reckon, \u201cYeah, that explains his career success.\u201d No nonsense\u2014point and shoot. If you notice at the end, his caddie, Ricky Elliott, said to Greiner, \u201cI said to him, do you f\u2014in\u2019 like driver up there? Do you? And [Brooks] goes, \u2018yeah.\u2019\u201d Simple as that. The bloke\u2019s got five majors, nine tour wins and four Ryder Cup appearances. Looks like his style is working just fine, career-wise.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0The Masters launches new website feature that will have golf sickos salivating<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Tracy Wilcox] If you haven\u2019t yet seen \u201cChasing Sunday\u201d, the PGA Tour\u2019s new all-access look at last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[6954,4225,64,63,17229,73434,273663,755,273664,1745,273665,44,1747,261934,85],"class_list":["post-553606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-akshay-bhatia","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-brooks-koepka","tag-chasing-sunday","tag-golf","tag-golf-media","tag-golf-news","tag-golf-video","tag-news","tag-pga-tour","tag-players-championship","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}