WHEN I FIRST PLAYED WITH DUSTIN ... AFTER NINE HOLES I THOUGHT HE WAS THE BEST GOLFER I’D EVER SEEN.”

We’ve had this discussion before, but it’s an ever-changing phenomenon in golf. And, as such, we need to keep an eye on it. For long enough most of us felt that, if everyone in the world played his best, Rory McIlroy would win. Well, not anymore.These days, if everyone plays at the top of their games, my feeling is that Dustin Johnson finishes first.

That is, of course, only one of the ways to measure greatness in golf. Another is, “who is the best today?” And that, as has been argued many times, is a different player almost every day. You only have to look at the tournaments around the word to figure