ATLANTA—Tiger Woods’ media periods are must-sees as a result of, properly, the whole lot Tiger Woods does is must-see. Phil Mickelson’s press conferences are extra like school courses, with Professor Phil completely satisfied to be on the podium.
However when Matt Kuchar is behind the microphone, what manifests is a murals.
There may be not sufficient area on the Web to checklist all of Kuchar’s compositions; that may be like naming each Chick-fil-A in Atlanta. Our two Kuchar favorites, for the uninitiated: not realizing the 2016 Olympic golf format (regardless of being within the Olympics), and dropping daggers on Mickelson on the 2017 Presidents Cup with Mickelson at his facet.
Although Kuchar’s time with the media at East Lake on Tuesday does not fairly rank with these masterpieces, the back-and-forth nonetheless generated a factor of magnificence.
It began out with an easy query, one concerning the Tour Championship’s new scoring format, and to Kuchar’s credit score, he tried to reply in sincerity. Alas—or maybe the phrase we’re in search of is “fortunately”—the response was derailed because of the hypnotic forces of … Bubba Watson.
The play-by-play, for posterity:
Q. Matt, I used to be curious, once you first heard concerning the beginning strokes format, what was your response? And do you assume this may assist clear up a number of the confusion from the earlier format the place guys perhaps did not know the place they stood through the course of the event?
MATT KUCHAR: After I first heard of it, it was totally different for golf and considering it does not make an entire lot of sense at first. The extra I thought of it and understood the — God, I do not know why I am that loopy picture of Bubba Watson proper now. I do not perceive what that is doing in right here. He is received such a puzzled look on his face.
THE MODERATOR: That is nothing new, proper?
MATT KUCHAR: It captures Bubba completely really.
No surprise Kuchar was enchanted. We had been in a trance till a photographer got here by means of and snapped us out of it. It is just like the portray from “Ghostbusters II.”
Kuchar will start the Tour Championship six strokes again of Justin Thomas. Ought to he win the Tour Championship, properly, anticipate a $15 million-worthy press convention.