During the next seven days, you will look completely about the glory of Okmont, hear and read-its vicious punishment, its church peuz and piano keys’ calls like siren, in 1962, Miracle Playoff between Jack Nicolas and Arnold Palmer in 1962 and Johnny Miller in 1973 in 1973.
This happens when you staging the most difficult test of golf in one of the best, most revered courses of golf – history revolves and surge, revives memories of previous pride and honor the gods of sports.
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No game worships its past with hardcore devotion like golf. If you have spent more than 10 seconds around the game, you have heard of Nicolas and Palmer and Tiger Woods and all other bullets, which strodes the fairways of Omkont and its companions mythical tracks. The implication in all this reverence is clear: the biggest days of golf are in the past. Today’s players can play the same hole, but they are not close to the icon on the Grand Leaderboard of the game.
Allow me to offer a different perspective: What if these are good ol ‘days, we will talk about decades from now on? What if this is another golden age, and we can’t see shine because we are very close?
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Given, no player can match Arni’s army’s popularity, or the ruthless talent of Woods, or the magnificent excellence of Golden Beer. But consider what we have in this era:
• A generational player in the Scotty Sheffeler, who compares to the career trajectory of Woods and Nicholas. It is too early to put him in his class, but with every win, every major, he lives in hunting.
• An icon in Rory McClaroy, which plays the best morality only in the history of the game, from the climber to the depth of the underworld and back to Mountantop.
• John Rahm, an attractive puzzle, a hall of fame-talent that may decide the most foolish career in golf history.
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• Bryson has managed a trailblazer in Decombo, creating a completely new brand framework for a professional athlete, managed by some people in any entertainment field combining talent, showmanships, social media lover and niche passion.
• A competition in the rider cup that becomes more vibrant, important and popular when arrives every time.
• A rich golf ecosystem that extends beyond the PGA tour of Palmer, Nickus and Woods to surround everything from live golf to YouTube affects. For example, consider decombo-his day’s work is as a live player, his most notable is-in–roops performs in Major, and he is a YouTube star. (His Ommont preview Over 2 million times in its first four days.) The world of golf keeps growing … Not just a way, says Arni’s army expected or predicted.
After winning the 124th US Open Championship in Pineharst No. 2 a year ago, Bryson Decombo reacted. (Photo through Getty Image by Tracy Wilcox/PGA Tour)
(Through Tracy Wilcox Getty Image)
It is all very easy that we focus on distracted distractions, passion with purse shapes, petty streaminess and bureaucracy, which has cut golf over the last four years. And yes, many people have sacrificed long-term stability for short-term pocket-stuffing to protect this game and pursue it.
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But as the latest head comes, take a look at what we have seen in the biggest moments of the game in the last few years. Chefler, McCrooy, Rahm and Decombo won. Dramatically ends that extends spring and summer Sunday to the level of art. Epencial Tournament – such as Pineharyt 2024 and Augusta 2025 – which will rank among the greatest of golf. Even though what is happening outside the ropes, sports, and his best players, are growing to complete this moment.
Another Omont element that you are likely to hear this week: Club President WC Fownes’ (alleged) declare that in Omkont, “A shot must be played poorly.
This advice also applies to the game outside Okkont. Golf are the best steps and are prominent after the major. I would say that we should hope that this magnificent run will continue this week… but at this point, I expect it very much.