Golf can be cruel, but it is gentle compared with life. Golf hands out 8.
Life deals cancer.
There are no tragedies in golf. The game can slap a nightmare on you, as it did Len Mattiace, but people who make quintuple bogeys don't need to go in for chemotherapy. A wedge lesson maybe, but not radiation. So if we're going to cry for a Mattiace, let it be for the one with inoperable cancer rather than for the one who plunked two golf balls into the water on national television. Her family pushed her around in a wheelchair for 72 holes so she could watch her son play a game.