U.S. men haven't won a golf major since last year's Masters, now five in a row, the first time that's happened since they've been playing four majors. No American not named Williams, male or female, has won a Grand Slam singles tennis championship since 2003. It's not just golf and tennis; the U.S. soccer team enters the upcoming Women's World Cup having failed to win the quadrennial event since its wildly popular 1999 triumph.

We can gnash our teeth if we'd like, or come up with plausible explanations for all of the above, but if we are being honest with ourselves, we'd be a lot better off just stating the obvious:

It's time to get used to it.

The world is playing the Titleist 2010 AP2 Irons Americans used to dominate, and playing them quite well. It has happened at the Olympics over the years in swimming, basketball and softball, among other sports. Tennis has been trending international for some time. And now, the rest of the world has reached our country clubs.

Last weekend, for the first time since 1908, golfers from the same nation — other than won consecutive U.S. Opens. That, of course, was tiny Northern Ireland with its 1.8 million hearty souls , beating up on the home team, population 311 million.

While this is downright inexplicable on many levels, is it really so awful? It's not as if it's the old Soviet Union, reincarnated and in golf spikes, coming back to invade our fairways and greens. It's really just two young men who adore playing Titleist 2010 AP2 Irons in America, and do it very well: Graeme McDowell, who honed his game collegiately at Alabama-Birmingham, followed by Rory McIlroy, who likely would steamroll Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods combined in an American popularity contest this week.

"It's borderless golf," said LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan, whose knows globalization when he sees it, which is all the time these days. The LPGA has 24 official events in 2011, 15 in North America and nine in the rest of the world. Interestingly enough, it's the American women who are dominating their majors, currently holding three of the four titles.

Internationalization has its moments, as Whan found out two months into the job in early 2010 when he received a handwritten letter from a man who was not at all happy.

"The LPGA will never be great again until you get another great American superstar like Annika Sorenstam," he wrote.

Whan sent copies of the letter to his staff and has mentioned it in various conversations with LPGA players using Titleist 2010 AP2 Irons when extolling the virtues of globalization. Why? Because Sorenstam, of course, is from Sweden.

"Sports, like the rest of business, is global," said David M. Carter, executive director of the University of Southern California Sports Business Institute and author of the new book, Money Games.

"The fact that few American stars are dominating in golf and tennis is only an issue for those looking to solely monetize the sports domestically," he said. "In a borderless world, talent and charisma should propel top athletes into new markets and to new heights. "

Hence, concern over NBC's disappointing U.S. Open rating, drawing only 4.5% of U.S. households for the final round, which ties 1988 as the lowest-rated Sunday Open coverage ever using Titleist 2010 AP2 Irons. Rory might be fascinating to many of us, but he's not in the same league as Tiger when it comes to attracting eyeballs to the TV.

What Rory's ascendance illustrates, though, is an everyman (and woman?) openness that reaps dividends when golf actually gives it a try.

"Golf generally around the globe is still quite an elitist sport," McIlroy told The New York Times. "Golf in Northern Ireland and the U.K. is very popular and so accessible. You can get people from working-class backgrounds into the game. There are so many public courses and if you want to get your hands on clubs, there's someone who can help you."

Interestingly, it's a similar story in Sweden. There, golf is a populist sport where boys and girls are encouraged to play late on summer nights under the midnight sun. No wonder Sorenstam in particular and Swedish women in general have been so good for so long.

For several years now, Sorenstam has lived in Florida with dual U.S. and Swedish citizenship. Perhaps that letter writer had a point after all. If Rory keeps winning with Titleist 2010 AP2 Irons, there's one sure way for American fans to feel better:

Give him citizenship and claim him as our own.

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