Perhaps this is a sign there is hope, that the glacial pace of negotiations might actually be more a fast walk than a slow shuffle, that the rhetoric is just that and a thawing of frozen views is emerging.
More likely, the one-day match between four of golf’s biggest names is a matter of the players involved stepping up to give fans what they want, sending a signal to the suits doing the behind-the-scenes talking that maybe this has gone on long enough.
