He conceded he couldn’t remember the last time he broke par in a competitive round. “I started drinking Coors Lite on 11 because I just couldn’t handle any more.” “I guarantee you, it was blowing a gale.” The other day at Liberty National, 20 miles north, made Beem wonder about his decision. He showed up over the weekend, was surprised to see that Baltusrol was “very playable,” and chose to tee it up for his 15th PGA. “Oh, my good Lord,” he said to himself, knowing this about Baltusrol: “You have to put on your big boy pants.”īut he’s exempt into the PGA via his stunning win over Tiger Woods in 2002 and he would be working the event for Sky, so what the heck. he thought of the 2016 PGA at Baltusrol and shook his head. When he missed the cut at the PGA at Whistling Straits last year. He hadn’t played at all in 2016 until the Monday after the British Open when he teed it up at Wentworth. At 1 under, he found himself in a tie for 21st, just four back. Utterly crazy how he had started from the 10th tee birdie, birdie then shook off two bogeys coming home to close with another birdie at the par-4 eighth. Yet here he stood back on the other side of the line, just like the old days. You told me, ‘You’ll be kind of good at commentating, you ought to try that.’ ”īeem laughed and added, “I rolled the dice.” “You play good, you play bad, what not, you guys always kind of gave me the confidence. “Seriously, hanging around with you guys, shooting the breeze after a round,” Beem said.
Only for Beem, the sun was shining and the rain fell on everyone else, which is what happens when in your fourth year of retirement and at the age of 45 you bring zero expectations into a major and shoot 1-under 69 to open the 98th PGA Championship. “You guys,” he told a small circle of golf writers as rain started to fall and the sky darkened at Baltusrol Golf Club. Beem has been well received and the question becomes, how did he prepare for such a career change? He joined Sky Sports, a UK-based sports network that is quite invested in both the PGA Tour and European Tour. Hoping to kill 2016 demons, Rickie Fowler and Jimmy Walker come out firing at PGA Championship Top 50 Modern Courses in Great Britain & Ireland.Top 50 Classic Courses in Great Britain & Ireland.Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands, Central America.
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