An Experiment in Scotch

Watch­ing the final holes of the US Open plus the post play inter­views, I was struck by the dif­fer­ence in the Euro­peans who were inter­viewed and the Amer­i­cans, specif­i­cally the num­ber one player in the world, Tiger Woods. French­man Gre­gory Havret, in a con­so­la­tion inter­view, was gra­cious and per­son­able. He talked about play­ing well, about …