Spieth's swing is a newly paved freeway through the heartland: smooth, straight, efficient, dependable.
The roads are newly paved and lined with flowers and carefully pruned shrubbery.
That was when real estate developers bent on selling the "mission fantasy" deployed saints to give their newly paved streets a patina of romance.
"You can see the stars at night," Wang marvelled as he hung washing in a newly paved alley outside his home.
Four years before, six people died in a succession of accidents in another Texas work zone, where contractors had failed to smooth out the edge of a newly paved lane.
Indeed, here on a newly paved 50-mile stretch of road between the capital and Bagannuur there was a steady flow of trucks loaded down with mounds of wool from the countryside.
Foremost among them is the romance of boarding a train in the gritty underground and stepping off on a newly paved, sun-bathed platform, the Pacific glimmering in the distance.
Next to the old Shiloh church, just past its newly paved parking lot, we stopped to rest and refill canteens — our source was a plastic "water buffalo" pulled by a truck, but the location was chosen for its appropriate proximity to a natural spring.
In the past few weeks, Kenyans have watched city officials gird themselves into action: street children have been ousted from the city centre, roads leading to the presidential residence have been newly paved, and street lamps are going on for the first time.
In short, the Tour de France spent Saturday in the heartland with its mixed smells of smoke from spectators' cookouts, barnyard aromas, fresh tar on roads newly paved for the Tour and the sourness of low tide on the English Channel.
Yet, even though the fences are due to come down next month on Phase 1 of the redesign to reveal a gleaming, newly paved central plaza with a relocated fountain, plush lawn and sculptured bushes around the fabled Washington Arch, a core group of protesters remain unconvinced and bitterly angry.
