I Love Me Some Match Play!

   I caught most of the semi-finals of the World Golf Championship's Match Play event this afternoon. I am back in the golf mode after having finished up the NFL season with a couple quarters of the Pro Bowl and I have to say that I love the format of match play because the strategy employed is much different than it seems to be in stroke play. Though I typically do not root for Tiger, because it seems like rooting for a sure thing, and thus not much fun, I have to say given the alternative - Stewart Cink, I'll take Tiger.

   My dislike of Cink comes from my attendance at the final practice round of what turned out to be the last year of the International at Castle Pines. We watched Cink play a couple of holes and he spent no time chatting with the guys that paid big bucks to play with him. In fact, after hitting his tee shot from the tips, he hung back there with his caddie rather than moving up to the members' tees to hang with his group. This stood strong in stark contrast to everyone else we saw that day, most notably Phil Mickelson who encouraged his group's every shot the entire time we followed them.

   Anyway, I'd like to see Stewark sink tomorrow at Tiger's hands! Sorry..I couldn't resist!