By now you’ve probably heard the news: Brooks Koepka? Huge Florida Panthers fan. Absolutely massive Ps guy. PGA Championships and Panthers, that’s what Brooks does. So far this week we’ve seen Koepka at Game 3 of the Panthers-Hurricanes and Game 4 of Heat-Celtics, and on Wednesday night — less the 24 hours before the putts drop at LIV Golf DC — he was back at FLA Live Arena with a series sweep and the Panthers’ first-ever Stanley Cup Finals berth on the line.

The stakes were high, but the eighth-seeded Panthers delivered, clinching their franchise’s first Prince of Wales trophy in 27 years with winning goal in the waning seconds to send the good people of Sunrise, Florida — including the 2023 PGA champ — through the roof. Everybody go nuts.

The Florida Panthers score the go-ahead goal with 4.9 seconds left!

Brooks Koepka is loving it. pic.twitter.com/ttOZHevVkC

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 25, 2023

Here's some reactions to Matthew Tkachuk's series winner. Tkachuk, Panthers front office, Keith Tkachuk, Brooks Koepka, Tkachuk again, Bobrovsky emotional on ice, Bobrovsky & Maurice in hallway, Gustav Forsling in locker room. pic.twitter.com/XkMcRZJpx2

— Kevin Michie (@KevinMichie) May 25, 2023

Noted Panthers fan Brooks Koepka (@BKoepka) is having himself a week! ? pic.twitter.com/jgrgZAWsBV

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) May 25, 2023

The Panthers scraped into the playoffs as the final wild card back in April, but Sergei Bobrovsky got hot and the bounces went their way as the Ps carved through the best regular-season team in NHL history, the perennial second-favourite Toronto Maple Leafs, and then everybody’s uncle’s dark horse, the Carolina Hurricanes. The win on Wednesday night was the franchise’s first-ever series-sweep.

Needless to say, it’s all coming up Koepka. And honestly, despite all the LIV hand-wringing done on this site and many others over the past 12 months, you love to see it. We guess it’s true what they say about sports:

Winning fixes everything, and Koepka is doing a hell of a lot of winning right now. Consider yourselves warned, DC.

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By Joel Beall
Bryson DeChambeau is a man of science. But an act of the golf gods nearly kept him from winning over the weekend.

DeChambeau captured his fourth event in 2018 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open with a 66 on Sunday, good enough for a one-shot victory over Patrick Cantlay. A performance impressive in itself, especially so given DeChambeau played through injury. An injury caused, by all things, an NHL air horn.

The Ryder Cupper was at a Vegas Golden Knights game on Saturday night and was asked ring a ceremonial siren. A move that backfired on DeChambeau.

“I went a little too hard on the air horn or what do you call it? I think that’s what it’s called. Yeah, and I ripped part my hand off, which is nice,” DeChambeau said. “So, no, it was all good though. It’s all right here. It’s fine. I mean, just hurt every shot, but it was all right. No, just kidding.

“I gave that thing a whirl and got the crowd pumped up for the third quarter and they went on to win, so, hey, more power to them and more power to me I guess. I won this week too, today, so it’s not a bad deal.”

Bryson DeChambeau…..

Ringing sirens one day

Winning the Shriners Open the next

?? @b_dechambeau pic.twitter.com/1TWr7awKxD

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) November 5, 2018

After initially discussing it in a lighthearted matter, DeChambeau did assert the injury posed an issue throughout his final round.

“Oh, yeah. I was freaking out,” DeChambeau admitted. “I actually put Nu-Skin on it this morning and it dried up and dried my hands too quickly. Then I opened my hand and it cracked and split.

“So now I’m like, ‘Wow, I’m really in some do-do; not in a good place.’ Essentially tried to put some lotion on just to moisturize it a little bit again. We did that and it started feeling better, and then the guys at the player performance center were able to wrap me up pretty nicely.

“It was manageable. Every time I clenched my fist a little bit too hard or hit a shot that was a little bit too steep I definitely felt a pull on it.”

Quite the curveball for a guy so prepared he has his own dew garcon.

In short, don’t expect DeChambeau to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange after he wins the 2019 Masters.

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