The Players Championship

Pity that pesky Spaniard, one Jon Rahm, shot a lights-out 64 on Saturday to take a one stroke lead in the PGA Players Championship.

For a while Brit Tommy Fleetwood and Irish lad Rory McIlroy were duking it out atop the leaderboard.

Yep, Fleetwood Mac was headlining the show again, some 40 years later. They should have played disco music in the background and threw in a few strobe lights.

Hard to say who will eventually win. Fleetwood's been lurking around the top in many tourneys of late but, alas, his collar seems to get a wee bit tight on Sundays. He's still looking for his first win.

Rory's been there, done that, and after a brief period where his game appeared to desert him, seems to be back in the groove again.

Young Rahm, if not already, will certainly be a force to contend with for the next couple decades.

Aussie Jason Day was out of synch for a while, but seems to have righted his golf ship and is in contention. Can't count him out.

Likewise Dustin Johnson, arguably the #1 player in the world. He's only a handful of strokes back. If he gets hot on Sunday......

The good thing about PGA tournaments these days? How the TV coverage gets its sanity back on the weekends, and that's likely not by choice.

Typically on Thursday and Friday, the TV folks turn the tourney into basically the Tiger Woods show. It's unbelievable how often they'll feature him on the air. Every shot. Then replays of same. They'll even throw in a few "highlights" from when Eldrick was playing in tournaments past. This, despite him usually being 5, 7, 10 strokes behind.  More out of contention the longer the play goes on.

What's good about the weekend?  If Eldrick does make the cut, it's usually barely. Which means he'll have early tee times on Saturday and Sunday. In other words, he'll just about have finished play before the contenders even start.

Even the obviously biased TV folks find it difficult to throw in a bunch of Tiger clips when he's not even playing any more. Hence, the coverage is more fairly spread around, as it should be.

True, they WILL find a way to interview him. That's seems to be mandatory, even if he's 10,12, 15 shots behind. Tiger this, Tiger that. If this was a white guy in the NBA, the networks would be blasted for blatant racism. But they keep jamming Eldrick down everybody's throat, even though he's won only one tournament in the last five years, and that not a major.

No offense to Jon Rahm. He seems like quite the gentleman, and this author wishes him well.

But I kinda liked the Fleetwood Mac angle.