Shinnecock's U.S. Open crowd debacle shouldn't have surprised us

Shinnecock's U.S. Open crowd debacle shouldn't have surprised us

The crowds following Wyndham Clark's U.S. Open final round lost their good-naturedness. I'm not sure why we were surprised.

Shinnecock’s U.S. Open crowd debacle shouldn’t have surprised us - Irish Golfer Magazine

My parents tell me there used to be a time when it was hard to be a jackass. The problem wasn’t necessarily a lack of willing participants (in the long history of the world, the human race has never wanted for ignorance). Rather, the constraining factor was a social environment that disincentivised displays of stupidity. Through sheer force of collective human spirit, my parents tell me, we were able to push problematic ideologies, flagrantly im…