Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

I sat down to write this, and noticed the message from Don. Now I don’t know if I have the heart to say what I wanted to on a topic as frivolous as golf after re-reading his editorial. I’ll try.

Sunday after his round, Tiger Woods spoke with Peter Kostis about his disappointing play. “I need to get the ball in the fairway. You know, I play pretty well from the fairway.”

That struck me as odd. Tiger doesn’t really play any better from the fairway than any of the other top pros. What makes him special is his ability to make a shot out of nothing. I remember his fantastic shots out of deep rough at Pebble Beach and St Andrews, and his ability to bend a ball around trees to get out of woods that would cost other players at least one stroke.

In the past, he has worked hard on making those impossible shots, probably spending more practice time on that than any other phase of the game. Now, though, his swing is ailing and he finds himself having to work on it, trying to put the ball in the fairway. His trouble game has suffered, and so have his scores.

It will be interesting to see if he can either keep the ball in play this week, or if he has recaptured the skill to salvage the bad shots he’s had recently.