The suits in Sacramento can’t force a mask around your mug.
The high in Houston Monday during the weather-delayed final round of the United States Open was 49 degrees. The young Korean golfer A Lim Kim wore a heavy down parka as she walked the fairways in between shots, doffing it whenever she addressed the ball. But during the entire round, the one thing she never took off was her coronavirus mask. Not once. And Kim, formerly ranked about 60th in the world, won the U.S. Open that cold, dark day, one of the premier athletic events of any year, on the strength of a focused three-hole birdie binge from No.15 through No.18, going from even par to finish with a three-under 68 to take our national championship against the world’s best golfers. And she never took off her mask. She didn’t even do that press-conference thing where athletes think they need to de-mask to be heard at the microphone. She just wore her mask, and we could hear her fine. She wasn’t proud, or doing what tiny minds like to call virtue-signaling: “I am not afraid of getting sick for me,” she said. She’s 25 years old, after all. “But I really don’t want to be a person who spreads disease and creates harm for someone or for the community. I am willing to take the inconvenience of wearing a mask, even though wearing a mask interferes with playing golf.
