NORTON — The complaint I hear about golf these days is that there aren’t enough big names anymore. We can’t remember who won the last major because he’s not famous enough. The days of Palmer, Nicklaus, Player, and Trevino are long gone. Today it’s a succession of Orville Moodys (look him up). We think Sergio Garcia, Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler, or Rory McIlroy is going to be the next big thing, but none of them last. It’s still Tiger and everybody else, and Tiger never wins majors anymore.
Can you name the winners of the last four majors?
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This is what happens when a sportswriter gets a couple of passes to an event he knows nothing about...and there is nothing to write about the Red Sox anymore!
Dan's right about the course. This is a FedEx playoff event. The leader doesn't have to be +2, but a birdie bash equivalent to a weak Tour event just doesn't cut it. The PGA needs to set up the course to challenge the players.
What a stupid column. I and 50 of my closest friends (none of whom I had ever met before) got to follow two well-known winners of major golf championships on dawn patrol yesterday in the mist at Norton. It was three and a half hours with no stupid TV commercials and good exercise watching McDowell and Harrington in the first pairing. It was watching golf the way golf was meant to be watched, not the way this hard-working Globe columnist probably follows it--in the media tent drinking a beer watching Woods on TV. Back in the day, it wasn't just Palmer, Nicklaus, Player and Trevino either. Tony Lema. Davis Love the second. Billy Casper. Johnny Miller. Venturi.
All these sponsorships get confusing. When I initially saw the headline, I thought it was a business article.
Went to the Deutsche Bank Tourney on Friday and Monday.....this is an excellent event and we are very lucky to have it in Massachusetts each year. On Friday it seemed that 50% of the spectators were following Tiger, Snedeker & Watney.....that left much less 'viewing competition' for appealing groups like Michelson, Els & Fowler......McIlroy, Z. Johnson & Dufner (and others)......I say keep Tiger in the PGA tour to so that the 'worshipers' can follow him around and allow the rest of us to see the other appealing groups on the course. A pretty good finish on Monday as well!!