But, for one magical afternoon, none of that was needed, and when the scorecard showed but 74 strokes at day's end, it was authentic and immensely satisfying.
Williams says it was "quite hard" for Merseyside football fans to generate "authentic and satisfying feelings of hatred" for the club just across Stanley Park while to United supporters, Manchester City seemed like "unlikely rivals and potential challengers".
The authentic and satisfying feel of the Bamboo Stylus is achieved through subtle design elements, such as a sophisticated black and silver design with satin-textured metal body and balanced weighting.
Seven seasons embroiled in the ups and downs, joys and heartaches, failures and triumphs of The Good Wife's Alicia Florrick, and we, the audience, were summarily dismissed with a literal slap, bereft of any expectation of a creatively authentic, emotionally satisfying conclusion to it all.
In my work in training and community development, I have seen time and again that food can be used as the magic glue that brings everyone together in a way that is more authentic and satisfying than can often be achieved in traditional professional settings.
"We could never, as a sitcom, handle this in a real authentic way that would be satisfying to us or America," said Michelle Nader, a co-executive producer of ABC's "Spin City," which is set in the office of a fictional New York mayor.
He was satisfying his listeners' basest desires, giving them authentic ethnic music in its most palatable form.
But authentic home cooking lives on in New York restaurants, serving the same purpose it did 65 years ago: satisfying the longings of people far from home.
