"Nearing 50, David Duval remains as intriguing as ever (as does his reading list)"

Seeing that Golf Channel is using Shrek’s nemesis for studio analysis this week, you might wonder what’s up with David Duval. The former World No. 1 plans to work about a half-dozen golf tournaments this year according to Michael Bamberger, who catches up with Duval in this Golf.com piece.

He also makes the case for Duval in the Hall of Fame.

He hasn’t won on Tour since his win at Lytham. (The Open counts as a PGA Tour event; the Dunlop Phoenix Open in Japan, which Duval won four months after his Lytham win, does not.) Still, with the Open win, plus a Players title, a dozen other wins and Ryder Cups and World Cups and a Tour round of 59, he deserves a locker at the World Golf Hall of Fame.

That’s what you get upon election, or you used to. The whole thing is being reconsidered. Anyway, if Fred Couples and Tim Finchem are Hall of Famers, then Duval is a Hall of Famer, too.

As Bamberger goes on to note several others have been bypassed, with Tom Weiskopf the obvious candidate for years (but only now picking up steam after his cancer diagnosis). But the Hall remains a popularity contest and players like Duval and Weiskopf were not Commissioner favorites.

Anyway hit the link as Duval also updates on his bedside reading stack and it’s a typically enjoyable Bamberger read.