It must be U.S. Open week if even former major winners and architects are cranky and having another go at each other.
Some background: The feud between Gary Player and Robert Trent Jones Jr. began in earnest at the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, where Player criticized Jones’ design and said, among other things, that the architect “had to have had one leg shorter than the other.”
For some reason, this issue was brought up again in a recent Golf Digest story, with Jones calling Player a “showboater” and sharing that they had tense encounters at last year’s Senior British Open and Rio Olympics.