Garcia slides down rankings after making swing changes

THEY still remember him in Chicago. In truth, I suspect they’ll never forget him.

There he was, risking life and limb in slashing his golf ball out from under the trunk of a huge tree and then galloping and high stepping after it down the fairway until it finally and miraculously ended on the green.

It was the 1999 US PGA Championship at Medinah, just a few miles from Olympia Fields, the venue for this week’s US Open, and if anything, an ever greater source of pride to the people of Chicago.