In fact, when you see a tournament in person, Duval and Tiger standout as athletes. Everybody else looks like a golfer. David seems to be carved from steel, Tiger looks more like A-Rod or Jeter than Hogan or Snead. Duval has played well enough to win four green jackets, but fate or misfortune, or a three-putt at 16 has gotten in the way. Nobody is owed a Green Jacket.
Nobody is owed a major championship.
Just ask Greg Norman. Duval has prepared himself like nobody else, except Tiger. It would be unfair to characterize him as Ali's Frazier or Affirmed's Alydar. Only a look back at his career from the future could cast him in that role. Mickelson's problem could be very different.