Orwell "1984" postBy now you know all about the Bubba vs. Elk rumble. Most of us are caught up in the controversy, the film clips, the gossip, the apologies, not to mention the intense human drama and C.S.I.-like hunt for blood and weapons.

Welcome to the first episode of “Reality Tour.”

I don’t know who was right or wrong. The news for me was not that the event erupted, but that we were ready witnesses. Just when you thought it was safe to snap off a curse-word 300 yards from nowhere…

Today, with high-res video and long-range audio, we’re eavesdropping closer and closer to the players, peeling away layers of mythic veneer. Now, it’s nothing new to catch a player on camera in a would-be rules violation, or an occasional snit — but in a colorful verbal brawl? What have we been missing all these years?

Yesterday, like a page from Orwell’s “1984” or some stealth wildlife documentary, we found ourselves zoomed in close for a rare and candid look at tour players in their own natural habitat. Not since Aquaman turned a putter into a boomerang with his head have we seen such an entertaining…I mean, reprehensible display.

So I ask: Who else brings his range rage out onto the long green highway? What else don’t we know that could tarnish the halos above our golden boys’ heads?

Is this an isolated case? Is too much being made of it? Or do we now have a taste for the truth about our teed-off titans?  Would it be good for us and the tours to discover more of the PGA’s and LPGA’s natural and very real on-course human side, both the good and the ugly?

Luckily, I just ask the questions. I don’t have to answer them.

Although, I do have a feeling about what we will be seeing next:  More.