Rob CarrBernhard Langer putts to the ninth hole during the final round of the Senior PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C.Bernhard Langer is enjoying another dominant season on the Champions Tour, winning three times with nine top-10 finishes in 12 events. Alas, 2017 has bestowed its share of issues as well, as Langer's putting stroke — one that many believe is in violation of golf's anchoring ban — has begat a wave of cheating accusations.
While the USGA has come to Langer's defense, many prominent voices continue to cast aspersions on Langer (and to a lesser extent, Scott McCarron). Speaking at Royal Porthcawl ahead of this week's Senior Open Championship, the two-time Masters champ sounds fed up with the matter.
“I personally don't understand it because I'm a man of integrity and the last thing I want to do is break rules and be known as cheating or something,” Langer said. “I mean, that's the very last thing I wan..

Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty ImagesTransformational eras have been rare in golf, and magical ones rarer still. Perhaps none was more consequential than the early 1960s, when the charisma of Arnold Palmer conjoined with television to send the game's popularity soaring.
Though purely speculative, it can be argued that more recent history might have proved more momentous had events occurred differently after the 2008 U.S. Open. Tiger Woods had just earned his 14th professional major championship with a playoff victory over Rocco Mediate—despite competing on an ACL so severely compromised that he underwent reconstructive knee surgery days later. The victory capped a Hogan-like stretch of six wins and 11 top-three finishes in 14 majors.
Tiger was 32 years old.
A golfer's career sweet spot. And he seemed unstoppable. Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 pro majors, perhaps the most iconic in sports, appeared easily within reach. After all, Nicklaus won seven major titles after 32. Phil Mickel..

Ross Kinnaird/R&A/Getty ImagesI've been looking for Tiger Woods' “enablers” since that latest brush with roadside gravel and pathos. I was about ready to declare them unfindable when all of a sudden I turned a corner, and there they were.
It's I. It's we.
By the way, it's you in particular. We're all enablers. Sixty-three million Americans enabled Donald Trump, and now he is alone and can't be told anything. A few more million Americans (but 10 fewer states) enabled Hillary Clinton, who along with her party forgot the words of John F. Kennedy (“the torch has been passed to a new generation … “) and instead passed it back to an old generation because that's where the money, not to mention the ambition, was.
In my time, I was a great enabler of O.J. Simpson, and not only because, in the sportswriting dodge, we forgive a lot in a guy who'll answer our calls. I liked him from the day in a Cincinnati hotel room when a bunch of us were measuring..