"My Year In Golf: Getting up close and personal at British, elsewhere made memories"

As we soak up the season-reviews and various reflections on 2017, it's shaped up as a really strong year in our sport. When Sergio Garcia finally winning a major is practically forgotten, you know we saw some pretty great golf in the months following The Masters.

I was struck by a few events and how much the intimacy of the fan experience played a role in my memories. We need more golf tournaments where fans can get closer to the action, not pushed back as they were at the U.S. Open and elsewhere.

So if you'll indulge, my 2017 memories as penned for Golfweek.com.

Comments

[D. maculata]

All these years I've been under the impression a plaque meant a player pulled off a miraculous shot, in this case from "thick fescue and a fern-like ground cover." Taking relief and dropping twice to a level, dead-clean lie doesn't qualify. If they put a plaque where he played from, the only people to ever see it will be the range picker and the guy that parks the equipment truck. Kudos to Jordan for winning the Open. But I doubt he'd appreciate a plaque with a depiction of his brain, RoG book and Father Time on it.