WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

Golf, unlike most everything else, is by and large scandal-free. What are golf’s secrets? Talk to people around the sport, and you get a sense of the structural elements that keep it so intact. It has to do with golf’s genetic code, its DNA. Start with cheating. As in any game, it is not allowed. But in golf, a sport in which players keep their own scores, it is unthinkable. … If baseball were golf, the community would have ostracized the guys on steroids.