Easy does it
It’s hard to imagine Fred Couples feeling like he doesn’t belong. Here’s a man who rolls out of bed, pulls on a smart shirt, strides on to the first tee and effortlessly crunches one down the middle. However, he’s not always been so relaxed. Believe it or not, Couples was, and in fact still is, rather “skittish”. The wide smiles and the nonchalant doffing of the cap, it’s not all an act–yet it reveals only part of one of the game’s most laid-back characters.
The player known as ‘Boom Boom’–because of his long, straight driving–arrived on the PGA Tour in 1981. This was an era not lacking in personalities, the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd and Lee Trevino among them. Then there was Johnny Miller, the type of ‘cool guy’ a 20-year-old Couples would seek out just to stare at on the range. In the
