1.29.07

Very Quick one Today...

I'm admittedly a touch burnt-out after this weekend and ended up doing my REAL job late into the evening last night...so just a quick point.


I saw Tiger Woods dominate at the Buick Open at Torrey Pines this weekend. If you haven't had the experience of standing 15' from Tiger Woods, it needs to surpass "have shoulder hair removed" on your "To Do" list.

It is genuinely staggering how much more athletic he looks than every other player out there. I still say that the people that describe him as "an NFL defensive back" are dillusional---but he's a specimen.

Beyond that, he's hitting shots that nobody else today---or any player in history. I was 30' away from his final approach into 18 on Sunday. It was a 115 yard wedge shot to a back pin that nobody had put within 20' all day. He hit a pitching wedge that never got higher than 15', took one hop and stopped about 7' below the hole.

I realize that this is lost on a lot of you---but that is the golf equivelant of standing flat-footed at center court and routinely putting the ball through the basket. Just unreal.

Furthermore---Tiger has Augusta National and Torrey Pines for the Masters and US Open respectively---two of the four courses he plays better than any other---for the first two majors of the year, and he's probably about even-money to win those two and complete his second "Tiger Slam." AND NOBODY IS GIVING IT ANY ATTENTION!!!

Holding all four golf majors at the same time (which Tiger did in 2000) is probably the greatest athletic accomplishment of my lifetime. Everyone is making a huge deal out of the fact that the Patriots may go 19-0 this season---but that isn't even in the realm of what Tiger is accomplishing.

Don't believe me?

For 19 days, the Patriots had to be better than ONE team.

For 16 days (four tournaments, four days apiece) Tiger has to be better than EVERY OTHER PLAYER IN THE WORLD--namely the 144 in the tournament he's playing in. And he has to maintain that pace for A YEAR.

AND DID I MENTION THAT HE'S ABOUT TO DO IT FOR THE SECOND TIME?!?!?!?!?!?

I hope he does.

And when he does I hope that he just plain decides that he is just going to be a pompous a-hole on the course because he's just that much better than anyone else.

Here's how I think he should do it.

He has the fist-pump on made putts...but I say he steps it up to a Shawn Merriman Haka-esque dance, right in the face of his playing partner.

He has the driver-spin after solid contact...but I say he institutes the Bret Boone bat-flip to Stevie every time he hits a bomb.

He has the low-five when he hits a par five in two...but I say he and Stevie start doing the '86 Bears/Tecmo Bowl three-step jumping high-five.

And finally...

He has the stare when he makes a putt to tie his playing partner...but I say he sprints to the next tee and starts doing Steve Wojciechowski floor-slaps.


With these things in the bag---he will no longer be the Michael Jordan of golf...but the Napoleon of golf.


Talk soon.

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