As someone who has experienced communications on a much more formal level in pre-internet times, I find elements of the modern golf game profoundly confusing. Like observing TV images of a deeply caring Tiger Woods only days after he was verbally slaughtered on Joe Duffy’s Liveline, no less.

Indeed the advocacy of prayer and good works became very much a part of the tournament scene on either side of the US, last weekend. While Bernhard Langer turned to the Bible to guide him to a stunning, record-equalling 45th Champions Tour triumph in Florida, Woods was helping a young female spectator with a daunting bucket list at Riviera CC.