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From Ken Klavon, USGA

About nine years ago a precocious Sam Saunders, then 11, pronounced to his parents that his basketball career would be coming to an end. He had a new fervor.

Anyone who knows Saunders’ lineage might have uttered, ‘What took so long?’

"I was happy that he found something he was clearly passionate about," said his mom, Amy, pausing for the following that could be construed as a punch line. "On a personal level, here I thought I was getting out of golf."

Call it the curse of the family genes. For the Saunders, outside of the Nicklauses, are the closest kin equivalents to golf royalty. Amy’s dad and Sam’s grandfather happens to be a king of sorts, you could say. In fact, ‘The King’ has been a moniker he’s been tagged with through most of his career. To put it a different way, how often can someone say they can call upon Arnold Palmer at a moment’s notice?

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