Winning hardly only thing in golf

“I won as a rookie, and I didn’t win again for four years,” said Brandt Snedeker, who has been on a hot (but winless) streak since failing to make the cut at The Players.

It took time to understand what winning was out here.” After Snedeker won the 2007 Wyndham Championship his rookie year, he figured he knew what winning was.

But if the greatest player in the past 30 years loses 74 percent of the time, maybe there was more to this idea of winning than Snedeker understood.

“You have to have a clear understanding of what’s successful,” said Snedeker, who since The Players has finished tied for second at the Colonial, tied for sixth at the Byron Nelson and eighth at the U.S.

That’s a winning run, absent actually winning.

Indeed not, so your definitions of winning and losing have to be adjusted because most touring pros were dominant high school and college players.

Snedeker was no exception at Vanderbilt or during his three years on the Web.com Tour before getting his PGA Tour card in 2007.

Open is the definition of that, but after double-bogeying 14, he realized a “win” would not be defined by hoisting a trophy this time.

Yet Snedeker shot 2-under 68 with six birdies and was 1-under for the tournament, which often is enough to win the U.S.