Paul Azinger points out that the golf swing is roughly 1 1/2 seconds of time consumed and so if a man shoots 70 he has consumed roughy 1 1/2 minutes of actual golf time in a championship round that takes roughly five hours to play and so an entire tournament (four rounds, 72 holes) takes roughly six minutes of actual golf action - hitting/putting - in a tournament that takes roughly twenty hours to play.
That
mental strain - keeping composure and adhering to a specific
plan while all of that time is slowly passing by and the thoughts of
a win are trying to creep in as the pressure slowly
increases - is why the last nine holes of a major are always so TENSE
and why only the mentally intelligent/tough triumph
The
game is almost entirely mental which is why there have been so few
blacks who have been even moderately successful - and Tiger ain't
black, he is a mulatto.
The
greatest players ever - Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Tom Watson (above photo) Phil
Mickelson, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen, Walter
Hagen etc etc are/were all intelligent white men whereas John Daly is the
outlier here.
You'll
never hear it said on ESPN but it is the truth.
What
you will hear on ESPN is the class argument - that golf is a rich
white man's sport and so it isn't fair to everyone, especially
blacks - but are rich white men idiots or are they intelligent?
Sure,
one can luck into a fortune but most fortunes have been made through
intellect and industry and it is the intellect that is the most
crucial factor in the most beautiful game.
And
idiot can stuff a basketball or run a football or tackle a runner
(NCAA Student athletes) but it takes intelligence and self control to win a
major golf tournament and Golf is to sports what NASA is to space - it is a white
man's enterprise.
2012
American and European Ryder Cup Team Members
NASA
