I didn't read the article, I clicked the link and saw that picture.
And I HATE to *defend* Barry but that looks like a 'Links Course', he's playing. And those type of courses S-U-C-K. They 'look easy' because there's no trees, well, Ha!
I first picked up a 4 Wood & Putter in 1957 and I HATE Links Courses, they ain't American (That's why we Americans stink at the British Open).
Anywho, Barry has no bidness on a Links Course. He's not a duffer, he's a hacker. And whomever set him up to play there was pulling a fast one on him, or hates him. :-)
The last Links Course I played was in 2001 and I was ready to kill. If you didn't place your ball in the exact middle of the fairway it rolled into that 2 ft high 'grass' on either side of the fairway and your ball was gone.
Does anyone here think that THE 1 could get on any of the golf courses if he wasn’t who he is? I doubt that he could play half of them if he didn’t hold the title that he has.