Men's golf has tremendous drawing power, and many of the spectators who follow it are stargazers. They want a vision of Greg Norman, a touch of Tiger Woods, a glimpse of John Daly. So they go to overcrowded tournaments, battle the crowds and never see as much as they would like. Worn out by the effort, they find some hillside to sit on. At the TPC at Sawgrass, the water-ringed 17th hole is golf's version of stock car racing.
Spectators gather there by the thousands to wait for a wreck.
Another ball in the agua is another car into the wall. Maybe, but the essence of golf watching also can be defined as observing a player's progress through an entire round. Dobson, a stubborn Englishwoman to the end, refused to look at any leaderboard. Good luck, dummy. Maybe next time you'll look at the leaderboard before you hit your ball into some jungle.