Sport: How Long Is a Lifetime?

Resisting the P.G.A.'s effort to oust the old pros

Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Julius Boros, Jack Burke Jr., Doug Ford. Their names are engraved on the winners' trophies of nearly 200 major golf tournaments. Together they have won four U.S. Open tournaments, nine P.G.A. Championships, six Masters and two British Open titles. They are enshrined in the Professional Golfers Association's Hall of Fame. Last week they added their names to a list of plaintiffs suing the P.G.A. Tour in state district court in Houston.

What they are mad about is a decision by the P.G.A.'s...

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