I get that we don’t expect much from our athletes, but I don’t know if the opposing countries were thinking much of the boozing, smoking and giggling behavior. Stricker is a class act and knows to have fun and he wasn’t carrying on in that manor.

Just me but I miss the Nicklaus, Palmer, Hogan, Player era personalities. You can walk into any college bar and find the other behavior.

I didn’t say they shouldn’t have fun, just not that type of fun on the world stage.

I agree to a certain extent. It reminds me of the book title, "Back When We Were Grown Ups" by Anne Tyler. Yes, those professional athletes of my parent's generation behaved with more decorum, manners, and self-control, publicly at least. Then again, the media wasn't as omnipresent and intrusive as it is now. And no social media, either, of course.