It is an unavoidable fact that must be faced in every sport, as well as in everyday life. Basketball had to learn to live without Michael Jordan. Football finally said good-bye to Joe Montana. It took a long time but baseball eventually bid farewell to Nolan Ryan.
Golf is a different story.
It seems incomprehensible to imagine the competitive golf world without Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus . Yet that day is close at hand. The U.S. Open has been carrying on without Palmer since he bid a teary farewell at Oakmont Country Club in 1994. A year later at St. Andrews, Palmer played his last British Open . Nicklaus played in what will most likely be his final U.S. Open two weeks ago at Pebble Beach.