Jim McCabe: Jordan Spieth shows there’s still a place for honour and loyalty

In the surrounds of the richest golf ambiance anywhere and on the threshold of the oldest championship the sport knows, it probably isn’t the proper time to ask if you’ve ever heard of the Greater Milwaukee Open or the Quad City Classic or something called the BC Open, or even the LaCantera Texas Open.

Chances are you haven’t, especially given that two of them no longer exist and the other two have been renamed.

But for the record, they are (or were) lower-tier tournaments on the American PGA Tour, events with smaller purses that don’t attract the marquee names, yet exist quite nicely, thank you, with strong support from towns starved for professional sports. Go beyond those similarities and there is also something else that unites those four tournaments.