"Ron, you are not only the lone golf writer to work all eight majors in the same year, you are the only one who wanted to."

That's Dan Jenkins, talking to Ron Sirak in a line dropped late in a fun column about something else entirely: Sirak's attempt to cover the Tavistock Cup, only be told he had to pick a side and wear a red or blue shirt!

So I get to the shuttle and a friendly enough chap says, "Didn't they give you a shirt?" to which I replied: "Yes they certainly did and a damn nice one it is." That was apparently the wrong answer. The guy, who now was getting very serious about his job, says: "In the spirit of the competition, everyone is expected to wear either Lake Nona blue or Isleworth red," or maybe it was the other way around. Frankly, the absurdity of the request -- which wasn't really a request -- directed my attention away from the details. Anyway, I replied: "In the spirit of journalism, I cannot wear your corporate uniform while I am covering your event. I am here as a journalist, not as a billboard.