Hall of Infamy: Timing was all wrong for two of the greatest golfers of all time

Talk about extraordinary circumstances. I suspect Hall-of-Famers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, must have considered their options for excusing themselves from an awards ceremony last week. I know what I would have done—gone into precautionary quarantine—to avoid being conferred America’s greatest civilian honour—the Presidential Medal of Freedom at this point. It sounds bizarre, but given the events that transpired last week at Capitol Hill, and the role the outgoing President of the United States played in what incoming President Joe Biden called one of ‘America’s darkest Days,’ the timing was all wrong for two of the greatest golfers of all time to be bestowed an honour by a man, who by all accounts, tends to improve his lie when no one’s watching, and has trouble counting his score. Even though the ceremony was held behind closed doors with no media…