Golfers like to talk about how lonely their game is, how you spend so much time by yourself practicing, how you're not really going against other golfers in tournaments so much as against the course.
All of that, of course, is dead wrong. Sure, Rory McIlroy lost to Augusta National on Saturday, but moreso he was beaten down by Jordan Spieth. It was a knockout, a no-hitter and a Hail Mary all in one even though there were no punches, pitches or passes.
Spieth and McIlroy are now golf's great rivalry, having officially bypassed and shut down the Tiger Woods-Phil Mickelson thing.