Perspective: When Father’s Day and the U.S. Open mean a little more
The drift of the crowd noise on a Sunday at the U.S. Open is like the rumble from a thunderhead, signaling where the action is on the golf course. My father’s voice was only a murmur, but it was just as powerful of a direction-finder. Watch this, he would say. Follow that. Over there, on that hole, is where things probably will be decided.“I know what I want for Father’s Day,” he also would say. “A cheeseburger from the concession.
He introduced us to an educational character who hung out on the practice green: George Low, a ruddy heavyset man in a plaid jacket, reputed to be the world’s greatest putter. My father explained that he was also an inveterate hustler who could beat you out of money with a rake, a shovel or a broomstick. Or his foot. Mr. Low, as I always respectfully called him, could putt from 50 feet with a sweep of his instep.“There ain’t no point loafing with a broke, because nothing falls off,” Low said.
Curtis Strange’s repeat titles in 1988 and ’89 were all about perseverance and a healthy perspective. “I must be really smart if I’ve won two U.S. Opens,” Strange said deprecatingly, and my father loved him for it.The problem with too many people, Dad said, was that they “equate winning with intellect and rich with smart.
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