There’s no doubt about you Americans. Geoff Ogilvy toughs it out on one of the hardest tracks in U.S. Open history and all Ed Sherman can write about is how Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie “lost” the tournament. Sherman says Ogilvy “never will get his due” . . . and seems determined to see that he doesn’t.
No mention of his perfect drive under pressure on the 18th hole, which finished in a divot. No mention of his chip shot on the same hole that he knocked to 6 feet, after the TV commentator said, “It’s crazy how hard this shot is.”
As Rudyard Kipling once wrote, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . you’ll be a man, my son,” and that’s exactly what Ogilvy did. He held his nerve in the face of some monstrous bad luck. Even with some lucky breaks, Mickelson and Monty couldn’t do the same.
