Koepka said earlier this summer that they "banter back and forth in good fun" while DeChambeau's coach Mike Schy has suggested they are both doing it to "maximise their global profile". The 23-year-old famously earned praise from ex-rugby league winger Martin Offiah after running the length of the field to score a try for Halifax reserves in 2019. He featured once for the senior team before signing with the Bradford Bulls reserves in 2020 followed by the Swinton Lions, failing to make an appearance for the latter as his time at the club was hampered by injury.This year he turned his focus to gridiron. moved clear in second place with a 5-1 home rout ofBelarus Blues boss Lee Bowyer handed Marcel Oakley a second league start of his career in place of the suspended Gary Gardner in the visitors' only change.