Jim McCabe: Blue-blazers have morphed into mad scientists

One can only imagine that on occasion a member of the Myopia Hunt Club north of Boston — clear across America by some 3,000 miles from Chambers Bay and the 115th U.S. Open — will come across a golf ball long ago lost by one W.E. Stoddard. 

After all, the unfortunate chap had to have sprinkled the property with an inordinate amount of them, given that he shot 103-95-97-96 in the 1898 U.S. Open.

Difficult as Stoddard found the course at that fourth U.S. Open — after all, he was a whopping 63 strokes behind the winner, Fred Herd — and certain that he wanted to scream at the sheep for not doing a better job of maintaining the rough, what was he to do?