"Technology, progress, call it what you will, has made it harder for the creatives to separate themselves."
/It doesn't happen too often but it's always noteworthy when a mainstream publication notes the role of technology in evening out fields, not the usual "fields have never been deeper" line we hear too often.
James Corrigan in The Telegraph, on Tiger's return and the future of golf without Tiger where no great player has been able to separate themselves.
Why? The factors are numerous, some to do with the shameful inaction of the governing bodies, some to do with the nature of golf as sport and the nature of 21st Century fame.
There’s the equipment, the ball, the course design. Technology, progress, call it what you will, has made it harder for the creatives to separate themselves. Golf has always been a sport where any of many can turn up and win on a given week.
Yet this applies now more than ever and it is happening at a time in sport in which celebrity is everything and, in which, only big names sell. Equality sucks.