500 Words on Golf and Getting Old

Jul 20, 2015

∙ Paid

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Here is a stubborn little fact I just noticed: No golfer my age has ever won a golf major championship. A sportswriter grows older not by the calendar but by horrifying little tidbits like this one. When I began writing, I was the same age as the college baseball and basketball players I interviewed. I would see them in class.