The Senior demographics are nice enough. And the marketing number crunchers at the phone and car companies know they still have a good thing. The players and the officials fell all over themselves last week trying to convince us there is not a problem here. But there is. And the defenders are starting to sound too much like apologists.
Candor is in short supply.
But it's out there. Miller won't begin his limited schedule of Senior events until later this year. He says the Senior Tour is healthy. But he, too, has caught a whiff of the ill wind. And there is a group of terrific players whose performances won't transcend a public hungry for names they know.