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Dave Portnoy reignites feud with Brooks Koepka while revelling in his Masters heartache

If you’re looking for a man to cross who will forgive and forget, then that man is certainly not Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
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El Pres recently cashed in with a sale of Barstool Sports for hundreds of millions, and he’s currently enjoying the finer things in life with a trip to Italy, but has that stopped the 46-year-old from denouncing those who have crossed him in the past? Absolutely not.
Over the weekend, Portnoy took time out of his Venice adventure to vehemently root against Brooks Koepka, who he explosively described in 2021 as a “scumbag piece of s***’.
If you aren’t aware of the initial beef between the two, here’s what allegedly went down between both men. Per Portnoy, who was speaking on his podcast with @EddieBarstool last summer:
“We had the match set-up for $250,000, Lefty vs Lefty (Koepka was required to play left-handed). He got injured. Whatever, s*** happens – the weekend before we were supposed to play. He DMs (Direct Messages) me, going, ‘Sorry, we’ll reschedule it. No problem.”
“There was a lot of work on our end, Eddie, to get this thing set-up. The broadcaster, the tech-side, hours and hours and hours of setting this thing up, all on our end. Next thing you know, I don’t hear from him and he is going, ‘Hey! I’m doing this match with Bryson DeChambeau”
“Listen, you do you. To not give me a heads up, he was not doing that first and after all the work we put in to our thing… Scumbag, piece of s***! If I wasted somebody’s time and energy, not just mine, it wasn’t actually mine, it was our company’s, granted. I was practicing and injuring my shoulder. If I wasted that much time – it wasn’t his fault that he got hurt – but the courtesy to go, ‘Hey, I got this opportunity to do this first, then we will do you.’ What a piece of s***. Not even a – ‘I should have told you’, nothing, what a piece of s***.”
Cut to the 2023 Masters, and with Koepka leading at the halfway stage, Portnoy was not about to let his vacation get in the way of reigniting his feud with Koepka and cheering against his foe at all costs.
I can't even take 1 weekend off from hating. Now I got to direct all my energy to rooting against Brooks Koepka. pic.twitter.com/TyJLlQYwWr
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 6, 2023
I hope Brooks Koepka chokes
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 7, 2023
Cut to Sunday, and Koepka was out-gunned by Jon Rahm, a defeat which it’s fair to say Portnoy took particular pleasure in throughout the day (or evening and night as it was in Venice at the time).
CUT IT TO 1! Tee to green it's Jon Rohm! #masters pic.twitter.com/jLDhaCghLA
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 9, 2023
Love look at Brooksey at the #Masters as Jon Rahm Grabs the lead!!! pic.twitter.com/7l7YkQoPnI
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 9, 2023
Another bogey from Brooksey! What an epic collapse from him. This has to be one of biggest collapses in major history right? Even I'm starting to feel bad for him. Just pathetic. Hey @PMTsportsbiz can you crunch the numbers on biggest choke jobs in history of Masters? pic.twitter.com/ooBiHtaLkx
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 9, 2023
Buona Notte
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 9, 2023
Whether El Pres dunking on Brooks as the 4-time champ suffered a particularly rough moment will spark a reaction remains to be seen. If a Match ever did get played between the two, though, it may be one of the few golf showdowns where the animosity between the two participants is very much real.
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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.
However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.
Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.
Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”
Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish
— Jenny Shin (@JennyShin_LPGA) August 3, 2025
Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.
Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.
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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.
Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.
Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.
Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.
Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.
“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course. Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”
According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.
“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”
Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.
Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.
Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.
The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.
Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”
“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”
Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.
However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.
“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”
Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.