Russell Henley’s Quiet Birdie: How a Georgia Golfer Became an Unlikely Proxy in the World’s Soft-Power Struggle
Russell Henley and the Geopolitics of a Quiet Birdie From Dave’s Locker International Desk In the grand carnival of global affairs—where TikTok algorithms decide elections and crypto moguls vanish into thin air—a 33-year-old man from Macon, Georgia, quietly two-putted his way into the conversation last month. Russell Henley’s victory at the Houston Open didn’t trend…