Golf

Disc golf is a few years from having more places to play in America than golf has. Whether it will ever have more players is something nobody has counted yet.

What it felt like following Cameron Smith down the back nine of a major championship, and witnessing a kind of athletic brilliance that doesn't require perfect shots.

Two golfs. Two generational talents. Two championship venues that refused to yield. Two major droughts. Two triumphs?

Watch a long hitter in golf or a long thrower in disc golf and the motion looks easy. The hips turn, the body unwinds, and the club or the disc leaves at a speed that seems out of proportion to the effort.

A golfer walking onto a disc golf course for the first time knows more than they think.