unsurpassable

By approval of golfing royalty, the quality in Troon outdid what we thought was the unsurpassable genius of Turnberry.

As he waded into the scholarly debate over using the tainted atlas, the doctor bristled at hearing others praise its illustrations as “unsurpassable.”

There are records that seem unsurpassable — only to be felled by the wrecking ball of a single stirring, stunning outlier of a performance.

In his early days he spoke of creating monuments that would have “an unbridled intense satanic vulgarity unsurpassable, and yet be art.”

But it remains a central, seemingly unsurpassable text.