For all this, thanks Seve

You want goofy? Here is goofy: In 1967, Jack Nicklaus was the best player in the galaxy, a titan who that summer won the US Open for his sixth Major.

At the age of 27, Nicklaus was unlike anything golf had seen in decades. He was a sensation. But he wasn’t on the American Ryder Cup team.

No, sir. The PGA of America back then had a policy that defies logic. You couldn’t be a Ryder Cupper without having been a member of its organisation for five years. Nicklaus at the time was months shy of his five years.