No sport does sentiment better – or bigger – than golf. We put slate monuments into the ground to commemorate our game’s most memorable shots, and grow teary-eyed when our legends make a single swing on the first tee at Augusta National.
Why, you can walk out to the practice tee at many old courses today on occasion and still see gentlemen swinging hickory clubs that we thought went out with 5-cent movies.
But sentiment when mixed with performance can be a dangerous concoction. In making his second pick for the U.S. Presidents Cup team that will venture to South Korea next month, U.