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Charlotte, NC – these choices calls, in good times and in bad, they are discovering. Scottie Scheffler after his round of Thursday here, offering a soliloquy from depth within his experience. . . muddy balls.

Shane Lowry, playing by The sign of someone else’s pitch Friday: “F – this place.” Place was Hollow Quail Clubthe host page of The 107th championship i PGAwith a $ 3.4 million payment waiting for the winner.

The professional elite men golf has never had so much money sailing around him, and everyone seems to be in advantage, now more than ever before.

Collin Morikawa, after his fourth round 72, no one in particular: “Pathetic Golf F -Sing Golf”.

Rory Mcilroy, walking on a bridge of players towards an early morning time, listening to the whistleblower and by offering these words of viewing In his inner life: “F- FAR”

Scottie Scheffler, after holding a bird’s blow on Saturday to make his lead only greater: “F – yes, children.”

I like it. This shows how high they are, how intensive is the tournament golf, what control they are.

Scheffler’s Thursday’s soliloquy was great in her articulation. I disagree with any of them, but I respect what he was really saying: You have no idea how difficult this is! Make special note for its use of speech BE:

“I understand what it would be like a golf purist,” Oh, play it the way it stands. “But I don’t think they understand what it is to work out all your life to learn how to hit a golf and control it and hit the shots and control the distance and all of a sudden, because of a ruling decision, (all).”

It reminded me of a moment for a moment Tiger Woods, in Augusta, years ago. He went to the range of small members during a rain delay to hit the pitch shooting. One member came to a wheelchair to tell Woods that was supposed to be on the course, ready to play, in six minutes. The Woods appearance gave the poor boy was absolutely wet. As if there was a chance he did not know. You are welcome to write your balloon of thought. I may suggest there being at least one bomb in it, but it’s just a suggestion.

Players cheapen telling them what to do.

And we are all there, doing exactly that, telling them what to do. Members from the host course. Writers and transmitters. Caddies and shaky coaches. Tournament officials. The rules of officials. PGA Tour costumes. Can any of them shoot an equal Sunday 71 in an impossible course with one of the oldest and most prestigious golf trophies awaiting you and an engraver in a cozy club room, where, despite the intense heat of the day, is a gas fireplace going?

The player who had the strangest weekend was Rory McilroyA twice winner of the PGA championship who last month became the sixth player who won the professional career Grand Slam when he won the masters in a play off with a hole. The connections there were once broken by a play off with 18 holes, but the people who run the tournament have changed their minds over the issue over the years. Tourneu their tour.

A couple of weeks after his victory, Mcilroy was talking to Jimmy Fallon The Tonight Showwearing his new club coat. (The club allows the current winner to wear it outside the campus.) It was a charming interview. Mcilroy said, “everyone comes to me and they’re like, ‘oh, you don’t know what put us on Sunday. And I’m like,’ How do you think I was it feeling? ‘”

He conveyed the intensity of all so well. No one can understand what it means to be golf players tour besides other tour players. Mickey Wright told me years ago she talks about the tournament golf only with women who were on the LPGA tour with her because they are the only ones who understand.

On Friday, the news broke down by the modest Golf standard for the term-that Mcilroy was playing with a new driver, not what he had used in Augusta because he had failed a routine test in front of the tournament for compliance standards. Maybe the report is not correct. (It seems impossible.) It is not extraordinary. (Scottie Scheffler had to play with a new driver this week for the same reason.) But Mcilroy did not stop talking to reporters Friday or Friday or Saturday or Sunday to provide any kind of explanation. Why? I don’t know but I’ll make an assumption:

Because you are not the boss of me! I’m the boss of me!

In my opinion, he is turning a moth into a mountain. But, you know: his driver releases, his choice.

Golf for me – and surely at Rory Mcilroy; Shane Lowry; Scottie Scheffler and his Sunday partner playing, Alex who; Collin Morikawa; Tiger Woods; And millions more of us, at every level of play – represent freedom. But not boundless freedom, where there are no consequences. You have to do exactly what you want to do, up to one point. There is a point. Mcilroy did not pass a line. Neither Lowry or Morikawa or Scheffler, no matter what you think about what they did and what they said.

The corridors of a golf course, from the first TeE to the end of the hole to 18, call for millions of us. The golf in Quail Hollow was freedom, of a wild, windy type. Freedom with the boundaries created by the book of rules, from the dangers of water and harsh dangerous, the social contract of ownership of the game partner.

“It was intense there,” Nora told me Sunday night. “Scottie was intense. I was intense. The course is hard. Sundayn Sunday in a major, in the last group. Especially very intense.” Noran was doing his things, as good as he could, to the extent he defeated. He shot 76 and tied up for 17.

Scheffler was asked Sunday at night to describe the intensity of the tournament golf.

“Really really difficult to describe,” he said. “I don’t think you can really understand what it is, in the arena, until you get into it, and everything is in line.”

In all these cases, in all these F-bombs, in these different examples of players that reporters explode, this is what we are seeing, small scenes from their lives inside the arena.

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