Golf if nothing else is a game of numbers. There are magic ones of course, the 300-yard drive, 58, the score shot by Ryo Ishikawa in Japan on Sunday, 18 greens hit in regulation.
There are other more infamous numbers now as well with one of them being revealed over the weekend in the New York Daily News, 120. Or is it 121.
That is the number of women that Tiger Woods has alleged cheated with during his five-year marriage to Elin Nordegren according the National Enquirer. 500 or more is what Joslyn James thinks the tally is closer to.
The truth is closer to 350 million, more than likely the amount that Elin will get in the divorce.
Woods looked completely distracted in posting a 7-over par 79 in Friday's second round of the Quail Hollow Championship, missing the cut and heading out of town. It was a round with no fire, no spark, no grind it out until the end.
In fact it was a very un-Tiger-like round. 2/14 fairways, 11/18 greens, 34 putts and nines of 36 and 43 to miss the cut by eight shots. Or are there more rounds like this on the horizon?
Maybe it's just me, but don't you think if you're the best player in the world, you'd be able to find a driver that you can put in play? Is it mental, is it physical? I find it intriguing that Woods now works with Hank Haney who battled with driver "yips" for some time. Can you catch it? Does Hank ever say to Tiger at some point, "You know, it didn't take Ray Ramano this long to get what I'm trying to tell you..."
When Tiger was working with Butch Harmon it just had a different feel to it, this whole thing of being a control freak and "owning" your swing so that you don't "need" anyone doesn't make sense to me. It is always good to have another pair of trained eyes watching your swing so that if you are doing something it can be detected and corrected.
But Tiger will NEVER (absolutes are an addict/rehab thing) return to "Butchie", especially since he is working with and helping improve Phil Mickelson.
The truth is, Tiger Woods has pinned himself into a corner and the only way to get out of it is to come out swinging. The only problem is, with the way he's swinging right now, there's no telling where the double cross is going to end up.
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