Why golfers keep playing ‘frustrating’ game, according to Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler took his right arm back, arched his back backward to the point where that arm was just above the back of his right knee, planted forward with his left leg — and threw. A good hand wedge. Maybe even a hand 9. But a good riddance. Now his ball had taken root among the trees near Riviera Country Club’s 11th green, where, two years ago at the Genesis Invitational, Scheffler had just sent a 5-foot birdie putt 4 feet past the hole. The point here, though, besides wondering whether golf’s top-ranked player could have also been a quarterback of his hometown Dallas Cowboys? What’s the point? If playing golf drives us to such frustration, why play golf? Clearly, there are other...