Once the No. 1 player in the world, Duval had long been an enigma, a star golfer hidden behind dark, wraparound sunglasses.
Oosthuizen's father was a sheep farmer in Mossel Bay on South Africa's southern coast, and Oosthuizen was able to make the leap from promising youth to professional only with the financial help of the star golfer Ernie Els's foundation.
Over the course of Sunday's installment-plan interview, ferrying between her commitments, she was quick with a joke and particularly quick to tease — from afar — Rory McIlroy, the star golfer from Northern Ireland whom she has been dating for more than a year.
Though he was a star golfer at Georgia Tech and the rookie of the year on the PGA Tour in 1997, he had to shake free of the yips in the early 2000s as short putts were too often turning into existential questions.
Key: he shot 69 in the first round of the Barclays Scottish Open last week, his first round in the 60s this year.... Germany's new star golfer, Martin Kaymer, has won the last two events he has played, the French and Scottish Opens, which makes him difficult to pick this week.
He was also a star golfer.
