FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Brooks Koepka concedes he is motivated by real and imagined slights. So he had to notice Tuesday when his appearance at a PGA Championship news conference was greeted by the sight of journalists scrambling out of the room like newspaper reporters -- with press cards tucked in their fedoras -- racing for a bank of pay phones in an old black-and-white film.
Tiger Woods had just exited stage left after his own group interview, and why did anyone need to stick around to hear from the defending champ? At last month's Masters, after delivering the most memorable moment of his golfing life, the 43-year-old Woods became what he had been in his dominant prime -- the most recognizable and revered athlete on the planet.