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Our experts pick 1997's highs and lows. Click below.

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Overrated   Skins Game   Without a showman like Fuzzy or Trevino, it falls very flat

Underrated   European Ryder Cup team   The Europeans didn't just show up at Valderrama, they owned it

Annoying   Gestapo tournament volunteers   They feel it is their fairway, their press center, their tournament—and the rest of us are getting in the way

Breakthrough   Davis Love III   Finally rid himself of the hasn't-won-a-major monkey

Uplifting   Sunday afternoon at Winged Foot   Davis Love Jr., disguised as a rainbow, came calling on the final hole to watch his son win the PGA

MVP   Commissioner Tim Finchem   Parlayed the PGA into an outrageously overpriced television contract and the new World Tour

 

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