Scoring at “The Glass”

In the Feb. 18 Golf World, Tim Rosaforte offered up this paragraph in his “Quiet Please” column. The bracketed comments are mine.

“The great ball/distance debate is heating up again, but lost in the 62 shot by Phil Mickelson at The Glass last week [The Glass? Is that like, near The Point, The Bay, The Grove, The Hay and The Beach, you know?], and the driver-wedge game being played by Lefty and the other big hitters on the PGA Tour, is that the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tournament record of 20-under 268, shot by Mark O’Meara in 1997, remains in the books. [Uh, Phil missed tying it by 1, does that mean if he tied it or broke it that there would be cause for alarm?] Ultimately, course conditions and the human nervous system will balance out the home run ball. [Haven’t there been like a jillion stories in the last week with Tiger and Phil saying those course conditions - say narrowed fairways – are meaningless because they just bomb driver no matter what?] Like defense in Super Bowls, it’s still the short game that wins tournaments [yes, flip wedges into 450 yard par-4 would qualify as short game winning tournaments], and they haven’t invented a ball that goes straight under pressure. [Uh, bad news, the ball goes pretty straight for these guys under all conditions.]”