Is Golf Entering a New Era with No Tiger, No Phil, Some Bubba, a Pinch of Rory?

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Published: March 31, 2014

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Every 10 or 15 years, the Great Golf Rotation happens. The Hogan/Nelson/Snead Epoch evolved into The Arnie Era. That begot The Big Three—Arnie, Jack and Gary. Pretty soon, they were cast aside for Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros and a cast that included Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Lanny Wadkins and Hale Irwin. A few years later, it was move over, boys, for The Shark. He was shoved aside by a slew of Europeans—Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam, Colin Montgomerie, Jose Maria Olazabal—a couple of Americans, Fred Couples and Davis Love, and two South Africans, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen. (It takes a lot of guys to defeat a Great White Shark. )

Then the sea parted for Tiger Woods, and it tossed Phil Mickelson out on to the beach with a fresh, new, major-winning game. We've all been enjoying that landscape for some time.

But the winds of change are blowing.

Woods' first Masters victory was 17 years ago. Now, he has a disc.

Mickelson has a muscle. Louie Oosthuizen has a back and a farm. Justin Rose has a wrist. Rory has a fiancee. Justin Rose has a shoulder. Jason Day, a thumb. Jason Dufner has a pose and a new wife. Bubba has LA, baby, in reverse order. Adam Scott has a dinner.  

Webb Simpson, Graeme McDowell and Keegan Bradley have lifted trophies since owning their majors. Perhaps the more recent major champs deserve a pass because they all go through a phase of either chasing money or chasing history.  

A few, though, are just plain shocked. As Graeme McDowell said after winning the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, "To join the list of names, Tom Kite, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus. I can't believe I'm standing here as a Major Championship winner." 

Tiger Woods never said anything like that. He expected to win majors, or at least that was the aura he projected.

Looking at all this from the standpoint of the Great Golf Ro...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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