PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – He can’t pinpoint the exact moment, but sometime this spring Justin Leonard started to fall out of love with golf.
He was mired in a slump, one that would ultimately produce nine straight missed cuts. The hours of practice, the time spent on the range – the routine that helped him win 12 times, including a major – started to feel too much like work.
The more he tried to grind it out, the less satisfaction he received.
So at age 43, seven years removed from his last win, Leonard started to come to grips with his own golfing mortality.