If Dufner, Bradley or Steele make it, we will all be treated to endless golf channel pundits opining that this is the proto-type golfer of the future.
After Louis Ouisthazen, Schwartzl, Kymer won, all we heard is how these are guys that have the perfect swing, so pure and natural, or technically bullet proof, then they fade.
No one is talking about Hansen or Karlson, and wouldn't it be just like the McKeel, Curtis episodes where one of them win, and they haven't even shown 5 of their golf shots all week. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they show 10 of Tiger's shots, 2 days after he went home.
Yeah, I'm going to root for home boy Stricker, or if not him, Verplank, even Toms again. I think one of those veterans winning will at least place some higher credibility or bona fides that to win a major should take talent through experience and precise skill; not raw one-hit wonder, week of lightening in a bottle, falsely proclaimed future of golf winner, that the pundits have to struggle to rationalize the instant success.
Don't get me wrong, I love watching a Rory, Schwartzl, Louis, Martin, Kim as they develop. But, if it is a major, I'd like to see a golf course design/set-up and player sort of come together in identifying more than the lightening in a bottle one great week. I'd like to see the venue ferret out the great aspects of an all around great player who has earned it with perseverance and paid the dues, so to speak.
Maybe the ACC, particularly last 4 holes in a tournament venue sort of way will still give us the interesting contrast of veteran vs upstart as a study of what the pro game is all about.