Professional Golf In USA Risks {Moron} Label

==Tiger Battling Boredom; Perry in Firestorm of Controversy==

==He risks the respect of his peers, however.==

The first line above is a tag line from a TGC member email today. The second comes from the article itself.

If you did not guess that “he” is Kenny Perry, he is. If you wonder why anyone would show disrespect toward the old-timer, welcome to the PGA Tour.

Either the players or the writer edged dangerously close to membership in morons’r me. Perry didn’t qualify outright for The Masters, couldn’t physically put up with 36 holes of US Open qualifying the day after his Memorial Invitational victory, and had no desire to bail on his commitments to stateside tourneys when an Open Championship invitation came his way. And the problem is …?

Why would anyone begrudge Kenny Perry his success and the due rewards that accompany it? Might a few be jealous? More than a few. Disrespect? Hardly. If greatness were reflected by Major championships, Orville Moody, Dave Marr, Jack Fleck, Ben Curtis and Richard Burton (not the actor) would be acclaimed as great. They are not, but Kenny Perry just might be.