Let’s Open the Mail Bag and Take the Rubber Band Off Stack of ’87 : Longest Instant Replay

EDITOR’S NOTE: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1987, and reflect the leading issues and events discussed in Viewpoint during that period.

So Craig Stadler was disqualified for signing a wrong score card when, a day later, some TV viewers reported his illegal use of a towel, huh? The next time some jerk tries to tell me golf is a sport and that golfers are athletes, I’ll remind him of how golf is “refereed” on a 24-hour delay basis by couch potatoes, and how these fearless “athletes” kneel on towels so they won’t get their kneesies wet.

Golf a sport? Hogwash.

LANNY R. MIDDINGS

San Ramon