PGA Championship

Tiger Woods wins - and wins majors for one very simple
reason. Tiger Woods is a golfing machine - and as such
is a Ferrari running against Chevy's...Tiger Woods
is the best equipped in every possible aspect of winning
golf tournaments.
He's in better physical condition than any other
player on the PGA Tour - mentally - he is unchallenged -
He can adapt his game to the conditions and the course,
and is unlimited by course length and layout - and
Tiger Woods by virtue of nothing more than the percentage
of his time on earth during which he has had a golf club
in his hands is better equipped than any other human being
to get a golf ball to do his bidding.
Tiger understands better than anyone else. Tiger has the
ability to sift through the important and the mundane over
the course of a championship - and bottom line - as much as
the others may want to win...Tiger wants to win more !
Tiger demands to win more ! Tiger expects to win more.
In his post tourney news conference Tiger said one thing
that stood out...he's better than he was several years ago -
and several years from now he will be better than he is
now....If you love watching Tiger perform - the ride is far
from over yet...if you are among those who is not a Tiger
fan - there is always tennis.
It was good to see Woody Austin do so well at the PGA
Championship. Always emotional, legendary for having
snapped a putter across his melon, Austin was referred
to as a loose cannon by one of the commentators. He is
seldom given much respect...Austin articulated his
resentment Sunday during the broadcast and I thought
he answered his critics well. During one interview he said,
" I mishit a drive and slam my driver into the tee box and
I'm a loose cannon...did you see Tiger Saturday ? He missed
a drive and slammed his driver into the teebox and the
comment is how competitive he is...well - I'm competitive
too !"
Good for you Woody...there is nothing wrong with honest
emotion and I was particularly pleased that someone took
the commentators to task..."Very full of themselves" is a
common broadcast booth malaise...I wonder if they could
get shots ? Maybe if they ( most of them ) got one large
needle every week where they sit they'd find it a little
less difficult to be humble.
Vernon Wells is a great baseball player...good hitter although
this season's been a post contract disappointment, and
usually a terrific, dependable defensive centre fielder.
The other night I saw something I don't beleive I've
ever seen him do before ...he mislayed what should have
beena routine linedrive out..the ball kicked off the end of
his glove and allowed a run to score...now what surprised me
is that this is the first time I've witnessed this with Vernon.
He makes some great catches and gets to many balls that
others wouldn't - but if I were a manager I'd kick his butt
for the way he handles the routine stuff. He falls short of
hotdogging - but he one-hands everything hit his way, whips
his glove down and away the second the ball falls into it -
and generally gives the appearance that he has to try to
amuse himself out there because his job is just so friggin'
dull....well " Dull This !" Vernon because you are supposed
to be the Jays leader and the example you set is very
likely contributing to the Jays being no better than a .500
ball club...by the way....as long as the team leader acts
as if the routine isn't important - your team will never be
more than a .500 team. If Vernon Wells conducted himself
with the same attention to detail and passion that Tiger
Woods takes to the field on game day - that alone would win
the Jays 15 more games per season. And then others would
start showing they care---scary what might happen...but until
your key, big money players start acting like true professionals -
they are pretenders...
Gotta go...gotta date with Jasmine...it's time we go out to pee.
Bless..
Don