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The PGA Tourannouncedthis week that feuding golfers Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka will face each other for the next edition ofThe Matchairing Nov. 26, aka Black Friday, on TNT from the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas.
DeChambeau and Koepka have been the talk of the golf world this year ever since their personal rivalry took center stage on social media in May after cameras caught Koepka’sannoyed reactionto DeChambeau appearing behind him during an interview.
Koepka and DeChambeau will be the first golfers to play one-on-one forThe Match.
After the announcement, the athletes (naturally) took to social media to react.
“Finally what the world has been waiting to see,” DeChambeau wrote in a tweet.
“So does this mean we’re having ‘Friendsgiving,’ " Koepka, 31, added onTwitter.
In July, Koepka spoke out about the origin of his simmering feud with 28-year-old DeChambeau, which he said began in 2019.
“He walked up to Ricky and said ‘You tell your man if he’s got something to say, say it to myself,’ " Koepka said, according toYahoo! Sports. “I thought that was ironic because he went straight to Ricky.”
“Ricky told me when I came out,” he added. “I hit a few putts and then just walked right over to [DeChambeau]. We had a conversation.”
Things heated up again after DeChambeau poked fun at Koepka appearing nude inESPN’s “The Body Issue.”
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“We both agreed we’d leave each other out of it and wouldn’t mention each other, just kind of let it die off,” Koepka explained to reporters. “So then he was playing video games online or whatever and brought my name up and said a few things [about Koepka appearing in The Body Issue], so now it’s fair game.”
“He didn’t hold up his end of the bargain and I didn’t like that, so I’ll take my shots,” Koepka added, according toESPN.
source: people.com
