Sixty years ago, the late justice of the Supreme Court Potter Stewart arrived in a definition that changes history.
Year was 1964, the issue was Jacobellis vs ohioand the definition that lists America’s highest and most haired legal authority? Porn.
“I will not try today to determine the types of material that I understand to hug within this description of Shorthand (‘Strong pornography A now famous decision.
“But I know it when I see it.“
Stewart might not have understood it at the time, but he had spoken of something much wider than his issue. Some things in life are better understood than articulated.
Like for example, the greatness displayed by Scottie Scheffler on Sunday evening at the BMW championship when a Chip-in 82 feet for Birdie In the 17th hole he won him the penultimate PGA Tour of Play Off in completely fashionable jaws.
It’s not that Scheffler was not excellent BEFORE Theft of Robert Macintyre’s spirit in the 17th Green, ending a return Sunday with four surprising routine fashion. Of all the accounts, Scheffler has been great for a while: his resume has already given four major championship wins, three -quarters of Grand Slam career, more than $ 100 million in the course in the course and one of the longest and most vague properties in the world rankings since its creation.
It was more that Scheffler’s chip could be called the first “signature” of his career. The moment his predominance became undeniable for the most cynical observer. The moment he suddenly bowed the laws of physics, changing the endless small possibility for a hole that determines the tournament in a reliable, if not possible result. The moment in which the greatness of Scottie Scheffler suddenly opposed the definition.
“Yes, he has hit a great blow,” Macintyre admitted, the closest (and most destroyed) witness. “Nothing you can do with that. I just didn’t play well enough.”
“Ahhh, he’s good,” Rickie Fowler agreed. “It made that chip look a little easier than it is. It is’ it is easy to hit it 12 meters past, or down on the eve.”
Scheffler delights in Easy. More than any moment, light has determined his career-proven in a pair of four strokes in masters and open, and a five-stroke win. Only last year, he played countless hours of pressure golf, faced dozens of hair situations and came out of all without a strain.
But on Sunday, light gained a new definition. A sharp, chip, from the rough, to the penultimate hole, without your normal kadi, in the moments after an unexplained miss 3 meters? This is not thought to be easy, and yet, when the ball finally fell into the hole, it seemed silly to think that Scheffler would do anything else.
“You just shake your head in what you are looking at during this era from that man,” said Terry Gannon i NBC.
For Gannon and the rest of the NBC crew paid to confess Scheffler’s chip on Sunday, the only adequate emotion was fraud. And the only historical analog was clear.
Anyone who loves and has talked about golf in the last two decades has had the unfortunate experience to explain Tiger Woods to a stranger. If you are engaged in that activity, you understand the challenge faced by the NBC crew on Sunday afternoon on a small scale. Yes, Woods revolutionized golf relationships with equipment and gym. Yes, he won more convincingly than any player in history. Yes, he cultivated a mystic that transformed the economy of sports. But each of these facts is unable to explain the forests in its entirety.
Indeed, the best way to prove the greatness of Woods was to prove. To see it by uploading the 18th route to Masters in 2019 or Torrey Pines in 2008 or Pebble Beach in 2000. To view the logo on its golf ball swing in the 16th hole in Augusta National or at 17 in memorial. To feel your eyes betray your expectations. Those moments were flying and universal. They were completely original. They were greatness you could not determine.
After Sunday chip, Scheffler experienced a similar phenomenon in a completely different way. He raised his wedge in the air, first butt-end, as a maestro The silence of an orchestra-but did not follow a fist pump worthy of forests. He walked quickly in the hole and removed the ball before returning to the next top. On TV, NBC notifiers said nothing like the crowd and the moment swallowed the screen.
“When it came out, it turned out how we wanted and then it started to break down and it began to look better and better,” Scheffler said later, referring to his chip with the same admiration that could give a trunk of particularly visible trees. “And yes, it was definitely good to see him enter.”
It was, in fact, much more than beautiful. It was a cosmic intervention, a look at the divine, the discovery of another true original.
These are big words, and yet they are also inappropriate. The truth is that we all face the same NBC battle encountered Sunday evening – the challenge of articulating something that is better understood.
After all, we will agree, as they did, that there are no words to determine the greatness of Scottie Scheffler.
You will know when you see it.
You can reach the author in James.colgan@golf.com.
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James Colgan
Golfit.com editor
James Colan is a news editor of news and features in Golf, writing stories on the website and magazine. He manages the hot germ, golf media vertical and uses his experience on camera across brand platforms. Before entering Golf, James graduated from Siracuse University, during which time he was a caddy scholarship receiver (and Astuta Looper) in Long Island, where he is. He can be reached on James.colgan@golf.com.
