BROOKLINE, Mass. — Will Zalatoris had been there before.
The runner-up at a major championship. Standing on the podium glassy-eyed, unpacking the highs and lows of four rounds of grueling golf while a trophy gets handed out to someone else on the 18th green. Reaffirming his belief that, sooner or later, he’d be the one celebrating after the final putt drops.
It’s a situation — contending at a major — that Zalatoris believes he belongs in. But the situation — an all-too familiar one — that he found himself in Sunday came with a flavor of angst that he hadn’t tasted yet.
