"It used to be the golf swing that made you stand out. But it's become homogenized."
/Steve Elling tackles a wonderful subject: the demise of the homemade, easily recognizeable swing and its sudden renaissance with the likes of Bubba, Two Gloves and Rickie.
Though Elling has a few great lines, the comments from Brandel Chamblee really stand out.
"Not only is it more fun to watch from my perspective, because you can readily identify players by their golf swing -- from three fairways away," Chamblee said. "Most of the players are looking for some way to separate themselves, be it by a particular way they wear their hat, or wear wild colors here and there.
"It used to be the golf swing that made you stand out. But it's become homogenized."
And on Tiger:
"It's a drug," Chamblee said. "Tiger Woods is addicted to this drug of change, he is addicted to perfection. You could see it with Tiger at Chevron last year, and even though he tied and lost in a playoff, every swing looked to me like he was giving birth.
"I needed an epidural just to watch it. It looks like a lot more fun to play golf the way Rickie Fowler plays, or Jim Furyk, or Rory McIlroy."