There is no one to blame in golf. In most cases, there is no one to applaud.
Golf is a plural. It is not us. There is no password, no transfers. No one screen or run the give-and-go. Miss a meeting on the mound or a caucus or a team.
Singular, that is what golf is. A player, a ball, a goal.
Katrina Choate used to play the game that way. She practiced alone, in competition only. This was the golf.
When Teed up Tuesday in the first round of the women of Missouri Golf Association Amateur Championship at Bellerive Country Club, Choate was by itself. But she was not alone.When the star old Rockwood Summit took the start in the tournament from Tuesday to Thursday State fans, it was the best wishes of his teammates at the University of Tulsa and Drury Edmond, Oklahoma, and Springfield Missouri small towns Marshall and Seneca Golf nestled in his bag.