I violently agree with you!! "that's just not John" may need to change a bit, especially as he gets older . . . he could have had his kids and friends and smokes and diet coke over at the driving range, and like you said, hit a 3 wood every couple of minutes . . . not really work at or anything, have some fun with it . . . maybe draw one, fade one, hit one straight . . . blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda . . .
I could be a talking head, no playing announcer . . .
He does comes across "blue collar" or "every man" sort of guy, doesn't he? :-)