Gamesmanship, Sportsmanship, and the Case of the Giant Boulder

What does it mean to play a game well?

In the winter of 1999, on the thirteenth hole in the last round of the Phoenix Open, a 23-year-old golf prodigy hit a beautiful tee shot: left, straight over the cacti—“right over the middle of the pricklies,” as the announcer (David Feherty on CBS) put it—over the waste area, and… “Ooooh.” And not an ooooh of the good variety. What looked like it was g…