he thought of the 2016 PGA at Baltusrol and shook his head. When he missed the cut at the PGA at Whistling Straits last year. He hadn’t played at all in 2016 until the Monday after the British Open when he teed it up at Wentworth. At 1 under, he found himself in a tie for 21st, just four back. Utterly crazy how he had started from the 10th tee birdie, birdie then shook off two bogeys coming home to close with another birdie at the par-4 eighth. Yet here he stood back on the other side of the line, just like the old days. You told me, ‘You’ll be kind of good at commentating, you ought to try that.’ ”īeem laughed and added, “I rolled the dice.” “You play good, you play bad, what not, you guys always kind of gave me the confidence. “Seriously, hanging around with you guys, shooting the breeze after a round,” Beem said. Only for Beem, the sun was shining and the rain fell on everyone else, which is what happens when in your fourth year of retirement and at the age of 45 you bring zero expectations into a major and shoot 1-under 69 to open the 98th PGA Championship. “You guys,” he told a small circle of golf writers as rain started to fall and the sky darkened at Baltusrol Golf Club. Beem has been well received and the question becomes, how did he prepare for such a career change?
He joined Sky Sports, a UK-based sports network that is quite invested in both the PGA Tour and European Tour. Unfortunately, a few seasons ago when the bad ones started outweighing the good by a significant margin, Beem chose to go in another direction with his career. We know him as a true original, a golfer who never signed for a round that he wouldn’t talk about, be it good or bad. “You know me,” Beem said, and indeed we do. So, if he were to “interview myself,” as Rich Beem suggested was a possibility, what are the odds he’d offer a “no comment.”
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