article_snippet.sent: This is a momentous week in the history of our game.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Sir Nick Faldo, on American television, sums up perfectly the feelings of a sport at the end of truly epochal week.
article_snippet.sent: A sport with a fuddy-duddy, middle-aged image?
article_snippet.sent: Consider this: the world’s top two players have an average age seven years younger than the top two in tennis.
article_snippet.sent: The game is doubly lucky to have a personable 17-year-old in Lydia Ko at the top of the women’s game.
article_snippet.sent: It was with good reason that one of our competitors declared on the eve of the Masters that English golf had reached the end of an era, with no players ranked in the world
article_snippet.sent: ’s top 10 for the first time at a major since 2008.
article_snippet.sent: Three players ranked in the top six was as many as the host nation, with Ian Poulter and Paul Casey (tied sixth) doing enough to suggest Three players will win at least once each before this season is out.