Okay, maybe not so much of the first two. Tiger's not even playing, for a start, and as for drugs, well Rory McIlroy's comments about testing in the sport - to meet Olympic standards - have not proved popular in the locker room, by all accounts. Especially coming from a player who's not even going to Rio.
Still, talking of players who had to, er, take time out when people were making sniffy jokes, Dustin Johnson, the US Open champion, will be favourite this week, at a USPGA that has been moved forward three weeks so as to make room for the Olympics none of them are going to. Hits the ball a country mile, has got over his major short game demons, just looks impossible to ignore. Baltusrol isn't the longest of courses - it's a par 70 - and I reckon someone will finally become the first player to shoot a 62 round it this year in a major (there have been four or five previous 63s here).
If not Johnson, then Phil Mickelson - who won the last major played here, in 2005 - is clearly in the right frame of mind to go again, after his exemplary Open Championship. So too, I suppose, is Henrik Stenson - poised to do the 'one after the other' double that Price, and Woods, and Harrington, have done before - but I'm not looking to Stenson.
Patrick Reed, and JB Holmes, could both be there or there abouts. So too defending champion Jason Day, and Brandt Snedeker. But I'm still holding out hope for my eternal flame Sergio Garcia. Finally, finally, maybe ...
Still, talking of players who had to, er, take time out when people were making sniffy jokes, Dustin Johnson, the US Open champion, will be favourite this week, at a USPGA that has been moved forward three weeks so as to make room for the Olympics none of them are going to. Hits the ball a country mile, has got over his major short game demons, just looks impossible to ignore. Baltusrol isn't the longest of courses - it's a par 70 - and I reckon someone will finally become the first player to shoot a 62 round it this year in a major (there have been four or five previous 63s here).
If not Johnson, then Phil Mickelson - who won the last major played here, in 2005 - is clearly in the right frame of mind to go again, after his exemplary Open Championship. So too, I suppose, is Henrik Stenson - poised to do the 'one after the other' double that Price, and Woods, and Harrington, have done before - but I'm not looking to Stenson.
Patrick Reed, and JB Holmes, could both be there or there abouts. So too defending champion Jason Day, and Brandt Snedeker. But I'm still holding out hope for my eternal flame Sergio Garcia. Finally, finally, maybe ...
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