Tiger's first grimace -- first show of possible humanity -- came on his tee shot at the Par 5 9th. He's protecting a one-shot lead after nine, and you have to wonder how much that left knee will effect his play on the back nine.
Rocco Mediate is playing solid golf at +1, and I think he's the perfect guy to face Tiger in this type of situation. He's utterly unfazed by the mystique surrounding the World's #1: He's playing his game, chatting. fidgeting, and hitting it close.
There's no doubt Tiger's got his putter going -- everything he's put in so far has been dead center -- but the outcome here is certainly still in question. He has hit a couple of shots that no other man alive could even attempt -- a lazer beam 8-iron from 190 yards setting up an easy five-footer for his second-consecutive birdie on the front.
Thank God for the switch to NBC at 1pm here, and we just got to see Rocco chunk an easy four-footer for par on the 9th in HD. Golf is a completely different sport to watch in High Def, and as the professional couch surfer I am, you can trust my opinion on that. Mediate will make the turn down two shots -- a seemingly sufficient lead for even an ailing Tiger.
The difficulty of this course really precludes any precise predictions, so I won't venture any.
But my money's on Tiger, if you can believe it.
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