Michael Corcoran, the journalist who wrote the piece, says the reason no one remembers the line is that the now-defunct magazine’s editor-in-chief changed the quote to “there is nothing in the world like first-rate talent.”
Joe Bargmann, Corcoran’s editor at Maximum Golf, confirmed that account. “I was asked to change the last word of the story from ‘pussy.’ When I refused, my top editor changed the quote,” Bargmann told the Daily Beast.