"Give the man a gold star for six-out-of-six."

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Sounds like we really missed a lot with Tiger's presser yesterday. Only thing missing was an "it's all right in front of you" endorsement of Victoria. John Huggan writes:

Which is not to say that Tiger didn't try at all during the 20-minutes or so he spent in front of the gathered media. He did make an effort, a little bit more than normal, if truth be told. But still, much of what went on was little more than an insult to the collective intelligence of those with posteriors in the cheap seats. It was also utterly predictable.

One late-arriving journalist, who missed the Tiger show by a good two hours, was asked to speculate on the content of the world number-two's oratory. He came up with the following:

1) "I love the Sandbelt."
2) "The bunkering here is just fantastic."
3) "I always enjoy coming here to play."
4) "This is just a great course."
5) "We just don't get to play these sorts of courses in the U.S."
6) "The fans here are just tremendous."

Give the man a gold star for six-out-of-six.

"If we just prepared it on the points won so far this year Woods would not be in the top 50"

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The European Tour's statistics expert Ian Barker defended the World Ranking after Butch Harmon criticized the elevation of Lee Westwood to the top spot.

"If we just prepared it on the points won so far this year Woods would not be in the top 50 and Martin Kaymer would be comfortably the world number one," Barker, the European Tour's director of information services, told Reuters.

"Anyway, Butch may well have his wish on Sunday because Martin will go to number one if he comes second in Valderrama."

“To become No. 1 you have to win and win a lot to maintain it. That’s the way it goes.”

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That's Tiger sounding the least beat concerned about losing the No. 1 world ranking. It helps when you've won 14 majors.

“As far as the world ranking is concerned, yes, I’m not ranked No. 1 in the world,” Woods said Monday. “In order to do that you have to win and I didn’t win this year.”

Though I'm not sure this has proven to be accurate, but we'll chalk it up to Tiger sticking to diplomacy:

“As far as the emotions go, it is what it is,” Woods said. “To become No. 1 you have to win and win a lot to maintain it. That’s the way it goes.”

Lee Westwood won once this year at Memphis. Martin Kaymer has won four times, including a major.

Tiger Lumped With Favre In "Doghouse"

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Okay, it's a stretch, but as reader Mark noted the golf connections are tenuous, but Tiger does make an appearance at the end of the latest Taiwanese reenactment video on Brett Favre's saga and well, they've ditched the rugby shirt and got him back in red and black cap. In a doghouse. With what looks like a slimmed down Teddy Roosevelt. Yep, you can't make it up.