That picture (ah, lovely - belonging to a club as community) and Mike's story reminds me of one my friend told me. He's an assistant director in commercials. He often works with a very good director who's also a very good golfer. He gets an assignment to do a Tiger Woods commercial, set on a golf course. He's worked with Tiger before and is happy to work with him again. (A real professional on set, Tiger is). My friend is hired to AD. They get to the course on the first day of shooting and are told that Tiger is at the first tee; he's playing a few holes before shooting starts. The director grabs his clubs out of the car (my friend too) and they head to the first tee. As they approach, Tiger sees the director and with a big smile welcomes him: "Shank!!".
That's his nickname for the director, Shank. Why? Because the first time they worked together, the first time they played golf together, on the first tee, on his first shot, this very good golfer feels the pressue of Tiger standing there and shanks it 60 yards right.
Which is something like what one might feel the first time at Merion, I'd imagine.
Peter