Colin Sheridan: Augusta - Where the greats are utterly vulnerable
Rory McIlroy knows how unforgiving Augusta National is.
This week’s Masters arrives as a pertinent bookend to an annus horribilis for golfers the world over. In the face of a global pandemic, golfers became the Karens of the sporting world; entitled, white and overly demanding, golfers are the old men and women yelling at clouds, the ten percenters who - perhaps justifiably - argued golf was the one sport that should be exempt from all this Covid-19 mullarkey.
Things were bad enough for the fraternity last week, as its most celebrated son, Jack Nicklaus, endorsed US President Donald Trump in a statement straight from the “I’m just a guy from Ohio” book of false humility, but they got a whole lot worse Saturday, as images emerged of the defeated Trump on a Virginia golf course.
