If there are golf demons, they’re just memories posing as something more sinister.
They’re bad memories.
They’re echoes of failure that sit on a player’s shoulder whispering destructive reminders.
That’s what made Ariya Jutanugarn’s victory Sunday at the Yokohama Tire Classic such a special triumph. She didn’t just hold off Stacy Lewis, Morgan Pressel and Amy Yang coming home on the back nine of the Senator Course in Prattville, Ala.
With all due respect to those formidable competitors, Jutanugarn beat a tougher pair of foes. She beat the memories of two epic collapses.