One day, years from now, when the history of professional golf is analyzed in full, the two-week stretch of June 7 through June 19 of 2022 may go down as one of the most consequential and volatile periods in the history of the sport. There is a good chance this stretch will have altered the landscape of golf permanently. A rival tour debuted, a major championship was awarded and legacies were burnished and diminished.
The sad, the surreal, the serious and the speculative all wrestled for space, with everyone trying to make sense of it all.