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Their Time
Has Come

For reasons that even Charlie Sheen can’t claim to have the answer to, eight of the 10 PGA Tour events this year have been won by players in their 30s.

Give these guys credit for waiting their turn.

At least part of the explanation for this “trend” is the disappearance from leader-boards of the 35-year-old Tiger Woods, the erstwhile juggernaut. The guys he has been beating since junior golf are now falling all over themselves filling the vacuum left by his failures.

The latest is a combustible 34-year-old South African in a black hat by the name of Rory Sabbatini. Sunday, in Florida, he nursed a five-shot, 54-hole lead into a one-shot victory over Y. E. Yang. Third place went to Jerry Kelly, who saved a shot Saturday by enlisting a photog’s lens to help identify his golf ball stuck in a palm tree.

Which brings us to this prediction: Within five years Tour pros will be playing legal golf balls embedded with microchips that will make launch monitors obsolete while doing away with the need for cameras magnifying errant ammo in trees. And somewhere from the great beyond, the late, great and innovative production genius, Frank Chirkinian, will applaud the concept.

Speaking of Chirkinian, the patron saint of everything that is cool about televised golf: If Masters officials don’t do something extra special – like posthumously awarding him an honorary spot in the Champions Locker Room at Augusta National – they should be ashamed.