Started playing the game in 1973, back when there were persimmon woods, and Titleist DT's that actually had one llooonnnggg rubberband inside, and I was 6 years old. Played until 2011 when I fractured L-1, T-12 as well as rupturing those disc's. Can't swing a club at all now - it hurts to F'ING Bad!! I Love The Game Though, and everything you said was dead on!!
You bring up a good point. My first thought after Reed won was that he might be another John Daley. But everyone seems to love John Daley.
I get your point a bit, but Immelman, Schwtzel, etc. aren't similar to the three you mentioned.
All of those fellows have the personal appeal I mentioned. Either a major enhances people like that or the term doesn't mean anything. More nondescript people need to validate, but the green jacket still lifts them above whatever they might have been had they not earned it.
Probably not Tiger's either.
One thing many people resent about him is that he has a mechanism that most of us don't have, however much we might protest to the contrary. He's wired up in a way that allows him to be absolutely indifferent to what anyone thinks or says about him. He simply doesn't care. It doesn't register with him. He lacks the capacity to care. And that makeup frees him to achieve his goals regardless of however much it rankles others. I would not want to be as detached and isolated as he is, but I would love to be able to dismiss the opposition of others at will. That would be an amazing tool to have.
His wife reminds me of a couple of those women John Daly married.
