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Subscribe Today!Thank Kenny Perry for providing the laugh track to the 90th PGA Championship, the fourth and final major of the season for many, the first and only major of the season for Perry.

No, this week’s laugh track is as plain and simple as Perry himself: “Ha, ha, ha.”

For the record, that’s a direct quote, Perry’s easy answer to what was evidently an easy question as he walked out of the media center late Tuesday afternoon.

You may have heard that Perry caught a little bit of flak for it, and not just from sportswriters on this side of the pond.

“It amuses me,” said Perry, 47, who has said time and again his only goal for this season was to play in the Ryder Cup, which is being played next month in his home state of Kentucky.

In 22 years, nobody cared where I played golf. On Tuesday, after walking off the 18th green, Perry made sure to sign autographs for everyone who was waiting for him. Perry even walked out of sight once, then returned because he heard someone scream for another signature.

Perry’s season has been both unusual and unexpected, not to mention great by most standards, whether he’s playing in his first major championship of the year this week or his 10th. “It’s just been magical,” said Perry. I really haven’t thought about – my only goal was to make the Ryder Cup team, that’s all I focused in on this year. Not that Perry isn’t trying this week. Don’t forget how this story could end if he recharges those batteries just enough.

Don’t forget that the best part of this whole story is that Perry could still win this week. Thing is, Perry wouldn’t say anything.

“Ha, ha, ha,” said Perry Tuesday, when asked what that victory speech would be like.

“I’d just laugh. I’d just laugh.”