For posterity’s sake: Great players’ legacies are often not defined by their playing careers

‘A Towering Inferno’—that’s how most players and fans in the 1970s referred to the 16-time PGA Tour winner, Tom Weiskopf. The tall American player certainly had a towering golf swing: fashioned, as most golf swings in the day were, on Jack Nicklaus’s action, Weiskopf’s swing was an upright, high-hands—a thing of beauty.