The Major Tour Meets Its Match

Those poor, pampered millionaires of the PGA. As if winning a major championship is justification for initiating a new tour so that the rich can become even more pathetically rich. Many of these guys, after winning a major, have rarely, if ever, won another tournament. And they should be given a separate tour?

To lament the fact that many of the former major winners, because of eroding skills, infirmity, old age or all three, aren’t in the hunt come Sunday afternoon is akin to bemoaning the fact that Seattle Slew is a step closer to the glue factory than the Kentucky Derby; that Carl Yastrzemski is better suited to painting the Green Monster than defending it; that Kareem has a better chance of success in the Sky Bar than with the sky hook.

John R. Grush

Mission Viejo

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Regarding Colin Montgomerie and the “heckling” he put up with at La Costa:

As a member of the group that followed Scott McCarron (“the ones in T-shirts, shorts, cap backward and a beer in their hand”), please let me correct Montgomerie that most of us actually had two beers in our hands. We were there to root for Scott, not against Monty. One of us inadvertently cheered when Montgomerie missed a putt on 12, but it was quickly cut off.

So, if Monty wants to use fan heckling as an excuse for his continued poor play on this side of the pond, and therefore not play in the States anymore, don’t let the Concorde door hit you on your

James Brown

San Pedro