In golf there’s no such thing as ‘deserve’

Were golf a team sport and he had a friendship with Harry Sinden, Lee Westwood, perhaps, would be in better position for a Major title.

For point of reference, Sinden once ruled the Boston Bruins, a hockey team that went decades without winning a Stanley Cup, much to the chagrin of a passionate fan base. Feeling a kinship to his longtime captain, Raymond Bourque, Sinden in March of 2000 told one of hockey’s greatest players that it was time to end a 21-year run with the Bruins. Sinden’s rationale was simple — Bourque deserved to be on a Stanley Cup-winning team before he retired and wouldn’t get that chance with the young and ineffective Bruins.

Though it was at first an unsettling decision in Boston, the eventual trade of Bourque pleased Bruins fans, because in 2000-01, the great defenseman got to lift the Stanley Cup for the first time, as a member of the Colorado Avalanche.