What happened to David Duval?

Five years ago he won his first major. He hasn't won anything since. Bob Verdi of Golf Digest gets up close and personal with DD here.

Q: What have the last few years been?
A: Pretty tough. Hard. As bad as things got with golf, I never really thought of quitting the game. I contemplated not playing professionally anymore. I didn't want my professional golf life to destroy my recreational golf life. I didn't want the bad stuff on the PGA Tour to take away any desire to play the game at home. I didn't want to hate the game in such a way that I didn't want to play with my buddies or with my kids. But I was probably another really bad year away from doing that. * * *

Q: Do you like where the tour is headed with the new schedule?
A: I don't know a whole lot about this FedEx Cup system and the playoff at the end of the season. They're still figuring that out. Now, why the PGA Tour is trying to be like NASCAR, I don't get that at all. That puzzles me. I also don't understand what's going to happen to those other eight or so tournaments after the Tour Championship. What about them? Don't those people matter? Don't their sponsors matter? * * *

Q: You've had a couple of close calls at Augusta National. What about what the people there have done to toughen the golf course?
A: I'll just say it's silly, stretching that course to almost 7,500 yards with those funky greens. The idea that they're Tiger-proofing the course is ridiculous. They're Tiger-prepping it. Or Ernie-prepping it. It doesn't necessarily hurt me, although I don't hit it quite as long as those fellows, but it's definitely cutting down on the number of players you figure can win. I thought it was great what Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer said, criticizing the changes. I don't understand what they're doing at Augusta National. Does anybody? * * *

Q: So you were right [about the Ryder Cup and players designating money for their charity]?
A: I guess. There were a few guys who felt they should be paid for playing a Ryder Cup, which is fine; that's their position. I didn't want to get paid, but I got beat up. I got a kick out of some of the other players who weren't on the team giving me crap for talking about Ryder Cup money when they actually got paid for doing stuff at the Ryder Cup, like clinics for companies during the matches. The only guys who don't get paid at the Ryder Cup are the players in the Ryder Cup. The captain makes money. That's a problem I had with Crenshaw in 1999. . .

He talked about the purity of the Ryder Cup, and what he did with all that purity is make a bunch of money off the thing. He wrote a book about it; he had his clothing company involved. He kept saying how it burned his ass, us talking about charity dollars and hurting the sanctity of the event. But after he took his big stand and sold everybody else down the river, he did what we did with the charity money. I asked him point blank, "If you were so against this, why would you want anything to do with that charity money?" He took his $100,000 and sent it to the charity of his choice. Where's the purity in that?