Even hardliners agree LIV Golf defectors earned chance to play

AUGUSTA, Ga. — This was not exactly a peace-in-the-Middle-East bulletin, but after a press center video board reported that Tiger Woods — lead defense attorney for the PGA Tour — was practicing on the 15th hole with LIV Golf defector Bryson DeChambeau, I ran in the direction of the 16th tee. Actually, I walked in the direction of the 16th tee, walked as fast as humanly possible. Running is not allowed at Augusta National, a fact I discovered the hard way while jogging slowly toward the old press center at the start of my first Masters more than three decades…