Why LIV Golf WORKS + Bryson DeChambeau & Brooks Koepka Reaction | Colin Cowherd Podcast

Why LIV Golf WORKS + Bryson DeChambeau & Brooks Koepka Reaction | Colin Cowherd Podcast

Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Colin Coward podcast. Go on, hit that subscribe button if you’re new so you don’t miss any of our great football content this season. Well, the Colin Coward podcast, we are live with my buddy John Middle. We usually do these on Sunday night after the NFL games, but at the volume, we signed a contract with Live Golf, which I’ve been a supporter of from day one. And I called Middle and I said, “Get out here to Chicago.” So, last night we got dehydrated. I’ll leave it at that. And uh today we’re at Bowling Brook Country Club out in the BBS in Chicago. Uh it’s a beautiful course and we are at the Live Golf event. I had friends and acquaintances who had said, “You got to go to one of these tournaments.” Like there it’s a real experience. And the first thing that jumps out to you cuz we literally were, you know, Brooks Kepo’s coming up, shaking our hand, coming over. The access to Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Phil Mickelson. It’s just different. It’s a real thing. You know, Kepka sure knows that you’re a supporter because he came right over. He doesn’t smile often. Had a big smile. This is I I’ve been to a lot of golf events, US Opens, PJ Tour events. This the vibe here, the energy is unlike this is more like a I don’t know an SEC football game or something. Yeah. I mean, there’s a huge crowd here today. So, it it it is a big crowd. Um and I think my takeaway is and I’ve always kind of believed this, you got to get out of the studio, you got to go to events. Like I tell people, you know, I remember I used to work with a guy, Mark Shapiro, and I said, we were talking one time at Wimbledon, actually, and I said, my mom was British. I always love Wimbledon, right? I I always watched it, but he’d never been to an SEC game, and he was very, really, really young. And I said, you just got to go. You got to go to Baton Rouge. If you don’t know what it’s like during a football game, you can smell the bourbon. And when you come to one of these events, I mean, it just jumps out to you. First of all, they’ve take golf’s a rich history. There was always going to be push back on anything new in golf. We’ve seen it in baseball. We all knew the game had to get faster, right? We knew B and so it took people pushed back on the pitch clock. Well, the minute they did it, the sports attendance and ratings went up. I get why there was push back with Liv. I get it. But what they’ve done is basically found obvious stuff that golf can and probably should tweak to get a younger audience and it works. It definitely works in person. I mean, it it’s a vibe here for sure. But they, you know, one thing they got going for him right now, I said mentioned this on the driving range. Steph Curry, what he did for basketball, the interest of young people. You can go to any arena now when Steph’s playing. I don’t care the Lakers, you’re going to see Steph Curry jerseys. Bryson’s kind of become that. He is just a young hip. YouTube’s been huge for him. People want to see him. The other thing is we were on the first T the leaderboard in this tournament. Brooks Keepas won five majors. I mean, he knocked off people like Tiger Woods who tried to beat him. Phil Mickelson’s won six majors. One of the most legendary players ever. They have some star power. I was telling you Terrell Hatton who is going to be one of the superstars on the RDER Cup for the international team for years to come. Like it goes Rory Rom and he’s right there. So, I mean they they got uh I mean when they built this thing, you know, golf’s very dependent like like basketball on the stars. Yes. You know, outside of maybe Augusta. Yeah. And they got and they got a lot of Sergio Garcia won the Masters, you know, Patrick Reed won the Masters. So, they got a lot of accomplished golfers out here for sure. You know, it’s funny. It was interesting because I would say about four or five years ago, I was a huge Dustin Johnson fan. And he’s one of those and I saw him in person today. I mean, he was 3 ft from us. Doesn’t he look like an NFL quarterback? Oh, he’s big. I mean, he is Dustin’s a he’s a he’s a professional athlete. But his game is fascinating because there was there was a time I mean, such a mental game. There were about four years ago with Dustin Johnson. I thought he was going to take over the sport and there are still times I watch him on the live tour and I’m like he’s really a dynamic powerful player but for some reason and that’s I think that’s the beauty of golf and the burden of it. Like what’s where is Dustin Johnson now? Well, I mean, kind of I would say on the definitely on the back N of his career, probably on whole 16, 17, 18. I mean, he had a run where he won a PJ tour event, I think, in like 12 straight years. I think looking back, he’s one of those guys. You know, Brooks got the five majors, Phil’s got six majors. You look back on DJ’s career, I bet he’s kicking himself. He probably should have had six or seven. And he’s probably going to end up with two. Now, he did win the Masters, which definitely changed his life. I mean, there was that one, remember when Fox bought the US Open and DJ three putted and Jordan Speed ended up winning at Chambers Bay, your your home stomping ground. So, I I think he’s one of those careers where you just look back and I mean, it’s been incredible. He’s one of the most accomplished golfers of his uh of his era. And he’s one of the most talented because you see him thing with golf, I guess, football’s a little like this. Guys come in different shapes and size sizes, but Dustin stands out amongst everybody. Even next to Phil, he he trumps him, you know, by three or four inches. I mean, I watched six golfers. DJ looks 6’6. I mean, he’s massive. Of all the six golfers I saw that teed off today, Mickelson, Brooks, Kepka, Sergio, Hatton, Hatton, there was no question Dustin sounded different. Yeah. I mean, he is he is just a big he’s a professional athlete. So, but I think that you know the other thing that struck me today is that when I you get access to the driving range like really close and we got a little closer in the fans maybe 5T but when I turned around and I looked at the audience much younger audience than you would see and there’s always been young golf fans but if you watch the gallery at the US Open or Augusta um it it’s 45 55 5. That’s a lot of 23, 28 year old kids out here. Yeah. I mean, you come out here to hang out is a party. That’s most golf events. I live by one in Phoenix. They’re not usually parties. So, I mean, this is This is my first time in Chicago. I’ve always heard it’s an event, party kind of atmosphere. You can tell people gravitate toward fun stuff here. Festivals, music’s big here, events. And this is this is an event. I mean, it’s one of those that you got to be here to kind of feel it, you know? I mean, that music blast on hole one, that was crazy. Yeah. So, they had paratroopers come in, they got music blasting on the first hole. And I also think, I mean, I’ve only been in Chicago full-time now for about four months. But when you have a city with a harsh winter, when the sun comes out, people they’ll get in their car, they’ll drive two hours, they don’t care. That’s why music that’s why they just had something here the other day in town. I don’t even It was a LA what was the LA Palooa? That thing’s still real, right? They had a massive been going since I was a kid. Um they had a massive crowd here and it’s like Yeah, because for 4 months you can’t get out of the house. So when you have this event, I mean this is a big crowd. I’ve been hearing about these Chicago summers forever. It’s still hot, you know. People act like it’s like 70°, you know? I mean, it’s it’s warm. I mean, we got lucky today, though. Cool place. Yeah. We got great We got great It’s not good for the golfers, man. Oh, terrible. Phil’s all already all over the place. Yeah. No, the I think um listen, we have to at least address for a minute Shadur Sanders. Yeah. Okay. It’s a podcast, right? We we got a couple topics here. So, before he got drafted, he debuted last night. My take was always big enough, accurate enough, moves well enough. When I watched last night, he checked those boxes. I don’t know if he’s going to be good pre- snap. Is he mature enough? Is he But when I watched them last night, that was an event, by the way. Speaking of an event at the Live Golf, that was an event last night. When I watched him, he was kind of what he was in college. He’s accurate. He moves well enough. There’s so many other boxes to check to be a franchise quarterback. But my take was he delivered. He was what he was in college. I think the one thing with preseason, cuz it’s hard to put it on context, like I don’t know if you’re going up against the next Trent Williams or the next guy that’s going to be selling insurance a month, right? So, you got to be careful with that. You can judge instincts and you can just judge this guy can play football. Now the game plan, the regular season’s a different animal than the preseason, but Shador has always just kind of been an instinctive. He’s never been his dad athletically, right? He’s not the most explosive athlete. He doesn’t have the greatest arm, but he kind of just makes some plays. Now, you know, are they going to throw him out week one? They’re not going to do that. But this was always like once he started dropping in the draft, someone took him. If he looked good, it was be kind of it’s going to be a circus. I mean, it’s You thought it was big now. Can you imagine Cleveland radio this week? I mean, they’re not gonna want to see one snap from Flacco. No one’s gonna want to see Flacco take a No one’s going to want to see Kenny Pick. It’s a very T-Bo feel, but he’s much better than Tibo. Way better. I He’s a quarterback. You know, TBO, this guy’s a Now, can he be a good quarterback? And this is where if I’m the owner, listen, I’ll give you a month because as the head coach, you can’t just walk into Miles Garrett if Miles goes, I don’t think he’s quite ready yet. And not play the veteran guy. But if we’re one and three, one and four, I’m making the switch quicker than some teams do. Remember like uh when Lamar came in for Flacco, it was like the end of October. I’m not waiting that long. Yeah. You want to give this guy to me? If I’m Hasslam, I’m already like at minimum, let’s get like 10 games. We got two first round picks. If we’re bad anyway, we’re going to be drafted a quarterback. Let’s get a big sample size. Who knows? Maybe we don’t keep them. We can flip them. Yeah, absolutely. So, John and I will be doing our stuff tomorrow, obviously, on Sunday night. A lot of NFL stuff. Little teaser there. [Music]

Colin Cowherd is joined by John Middlekauff LIVE at LIV Golf Chicago. They react to Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka’s performances, analyze Dustin Johnson’s career, and more from inside LIV Golf.

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