Reports have it that if Henrik Stenson, who has torn it up with his first two rounds of 64 and 66 in the current FedEx tourney, holds on to win -- he could actually lay claim to the Cup itself, the $10 million bucks, a trophy slightly larger than Rhode Island, and maybe even a little personal time with Oprah. Or was that Miley? Regardless, that's one helluva prize package, I dare say.
But obviously, there's been some sort of ghastly mistake. Don't these people know that Tiger Woods is supposed to be the champion? After all, though he hasn't won a major tournament in 5 years, he's still the #1 player in the world. Coming into the PGA's version of the playoffs, Eldrick was the #1 seed, and thanks to a mysterious bonus point system working in his favor that likely not even a panel of former Nobel mathematical laureates would be able to decipher, Woods would have to almost totally collapse NOT to win it.
Let's get real. The media and his throngs of adoring fans want him to win it. They NEED him to win it. Personally, I've never understood this phenomenon. Why so many have elevated (in my opinion) an elitist, rude, boorish, adulterous man to a level of almost sainthood continues to amaze me. Is this the sort of person parents would want their children to look up to as a role model? Really?
At last look, Tiger hadn't won anything in the "playoffs" so far. Not even close. In the current tournament, after two rounds Woods find himself a whopping 14 shots behind the leader and in 26th place -- out of 30 golfers. Basically, he's stinking it up.
But never fear, Tiger fans. If he rolls in a few birdies on the weekend, yours truly has little doubt the powers-that-be will find a way to get your hero back in the hunt to once again be crowned the king.
He doesn't have to actually win anything, of course -- and nobody comes back from being 14 shots behind -- unless they and their caddy break out some kind of AKs and run amok shooting the rest of the competition on the course. But if Tiger even makes some kind of respectable showing on the weekend, yours truly wouldn't be surprised if somehow, some way, he wound up with the dough, the trophy, and twerking a video of his own with Miley. Or was that Oprah? Whatever.
Because how the FedEx scoring system works remains a big mystery to average golf fans. Bonus points here, bonus points there, and after a while, nobody knows what the hell is going on.
Why not just make it like all the playoffs in other sports? If they had a good enough regular season to qualify -- they're in. But then everything is reset to zero. May the best man/woman/team win whatever subsequent contests they participate in.
But tilting the field before it even starts, in favor of any one participant, for whatever reason, is just wrong.
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