Perspective: No crowds meant you could hear the players at the Match II, and some of it was revealing
For all that the Match II was a lame artificial setup, a made-for-TV event among four branding titans with personal logos stamped all over their golf carts, it had a strangely revealing charm. The audience learned things it didn’t know about. Starting with the fact that Brady can find as many palmettos on a golf course as you or me — and rip his pants just as badly doing it.
Turns out Brady doesn’t trust himself to hit a driver any more than you do. How much pleasure did it give you to learn that? He is no better under a press bet, either. Rain-soaked, water dripping off his cap, out of his element on the Medalist course and under increasingly intense mocking from Barkley and Brooks Koepka, who upped the stakes with a financial pledge of $100,000, he couldn’t find the fairway.“I’m about 70 yards away from him, and I thought I might be in danger,” Thomas said on No.
Still, it was tremendously entertaining — and informative — to listen to the one-upping asides and to watch the interplay among four men who have been famously buttoned-up competitors. And who normally show their personalities only in marketing campaigns.Interestingly, you learned that even in a goofy golf situation and unshaven, Woods remains a fairly laconic and methodical sort. Whereas Mickelson, on the other hand, was a real surprise.
Barkley teased him as a chatty know-it-all for the performance. “Everyone’s got an annoying friend,” he said. But it was fascinating for anyone who cares about shot-making. And, maybe even more importantly, for anyone who doesn’t. So many players and commentators talk about the game in such highly technical or mechanical terms that it can exclude the audience. Mickelson let everyone in.
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