A year ago I was sitting in my car listening to the second installment of a Planet Money series on NPR and realized the USA was moving into the vortex of a financial melt down. The shock of that realization woke me up every morning for the next nine months.
I’ve had a similar, albeit less dramatic sense about golf that started with The Masters tournament and has grown with each major. New equipment sales have taken a beating alongside the declining stature of the star players.