The PGA, rules, ethics and damned lies

This modern tale always seems to end the same dark corner: talk the good game, and then sell out for the cash. Men's pro golf is just another chapter.

One of the first things you learn when taking up the game of golf is that everything is about sportsmanship and following the rules. No sport is more OCD about rules than golf. All part of the the hushed tones, golf clap, and alleged veneer of being the continental game of elites that the masses are allowed to play.

Golf is so drilled down on the RULZ th…