Tiger At Bethpage Black: A Sucker's Bet?

Five bucks will get you two if you bet on the latest, repeat Memorial Tournament champion, Tiger Woods, to win the 2009 U.S. Open.
Those are the odds in Woods' favor of winning according to VegasInsider.com. If you're a gambler, you can take Tiger or the field at 5-to-2, or take a flying leap on Phil Mickelson, who was a 7-to-1 underdog to win at the storied New York public course, Bethpage Black.

The oddsmakers give Padraig Harrington, Geoff Ogilvy and Jim Furyk equally distant chances (15-1) of winning the U.S. Open. As for the rest of the players? Major longshots.

In your mind, does Mickelson have a chance of giving Woods a run for the money? Who do you suppose will melt down first in this, the second opportunity of the year to snag a Major tournament win?

Too Sexy for the Course?

They say it only takes that one good golf shot to keep you coming back for more.
If that's true, couldn't plunking every ball in your bag keep you from returning for a shot of this...?







Or this...










Through the (ahem) magic of Facebook, I just got acquainted with the revamped approach to golf attire that Seattle-based MiC Sport is trying to wedge into the game.
It's such a new enterprise that ordering information for the teed up print mini-skirts, body-skimming rain slickers and cropped pants isn't readily available yet on MiC's site.
The best promo material I could find reads:
"MiC offers a full line of women's golf apparel including pants, shorts, skirts, skorts, shirts, knit ensembles, visors, and hats that have a unique flair, envisioned and designed by a talented creative designer, Melba Lee, with years of experience in the upscale couture..."
But the buzz the looks are generating already are worthy of yelling "Fore!"
They might be whizzing your way sooner than you think.
And that wouldn't be a bad thing. Would it?

Ezekiel 25:17

"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."
(King James Version)

Here's hoping Tiger Woods gets a chance to tear Phil Mickelson a new one this week at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.



After all the build-up _ all the World's No. 1's time away from the game, all the Jerry Clooney-like hype surrounding Leftie _ I'm aching for a weekend on the couch, and a "Say What Again" performance from Woods at Phil's expense.

(By the way, if anyone has that NC-17 version of Sam Jackson's Golf Channel intro for Tiger's return to play, please share. That (bleep's) priceless.)

The showdown could happen on Saturday, if Woods emerges victorious from the 16-man Jones Division field and if Phil makes his way through the Hogan quadrant of the Field of 64 bracket.

You just know the networks are salivating over Tiger's return; whether he winds up facing Phil, or lasting through the five-round tourney, or not.



The stakes are so great that Nike's golf web site made a fuss of alerting the media in detail about Tiger's wardrobe for the weekend.

Do you think too much is being made about Tiger's return to competitive play? Or are you as geeked about the great one's comeback from injury as WE are?