Does golf need a Darth Vader? (And sorry, these guys don’t count) | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture,” Alfred Hitchcock said. Which makes sense that Star Wars, the most profitable franchise in the history of film, boasts a first-class monster in Darth Vader.

No cinematic character is as universally associated with evil than Vader, and with good reason. A larger-than-life disposition in aura and appearance, Vader epitomizes “bad guy” in culture. It’s why Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” and why the Ukraine, in its decommunization process, dressed up a statue of Vladimir Lenin with Vader’s helmet.

These comparisons apply to the sports world. Athletics, it has been said, are society’s most riveting theater, and often contextualized in a “good vs. evil” panorama. Every game owns, and in some cases, markets, it’s villains. The New York Yankees, Nick Saban, New England Patriots, Kobe Bryant, the Duke Blue Devils. Outside of their regions, they are …