Haven't we seen this face somewhere?
Posted: Wednesday July 22, 1998 01:05 PM
I've played golf with Mark O'Meara about a million times. Well, maybe not the 41-year-old Mark O'Meara who has won the Masters and the British Open now in the same year, the oldest golfer in history to win two majors in a single season ... but I've played golf a million times with guys who look just like him
The gray hair coming out from the edges of the baseball cap that is worn to cover the receding hairline. The body that has begun to feel the effects of gravity -- not outrageous, but still a little heavy. The top-of-the-line golf clothes, tidy and neat. The year-round tan that indicates a lot of time in the open air in pursuit of that little white ball.
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I look at O'Meara and I say that at the end of the 18 holes he is going to suggest we have a drink and at the end of the drink he is going to suggest that I need some term life insurance. Or that maybe his people can talk to my people and we can work out a certain business dilemma. Or that maybe I can just write him a check for all the press bets we made coming home.
A lot has been written in recent years about the changing face of golf. The diversity brought by Tiger Woods. The international look of, say, Ernie Els or Vijay Singh or Colin Montgomerie. The youth of Woods or Els or Justin Leonard. Well, Mark O'Meara is the old face of golf. The familiar face. Check it out the next time in the locker room of the country club or the local municipal course.
A Mark O'Meara guy -- a bunch of Mark O'Meara guys -- will be right there. Just waiting to take your money.
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