TPC Round 1, Ho Hum for Tiger

by David WhitleyFiled under: PGAPONTE VEDRA, Fla. -- We've had the Philandering Tiger, the Repentant Tiger, the Comeback Tiger, the Ian Baker-Finch Tiger and now the Mark Twain Tiger. Reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. Sigh. Woods shot a 70 at The Players Championship Thursday. That was about 20 shots better than some of you hoped. "I was building toward this," Woods said. Some of you hoped he was building toward quitting the game in disgust, sort of like his wife when it comes to marriage. I don't want him to quit since he's the world's leading source of easy columns. I wouldn't mind seeing him suffer a bit more, if for no other reason than to prove there is such a thing as karma. Loathe him or just dislike him, our club came to the TPC Sawgrass with reasonable hopes of a Tiger horror show. His 79 at Quail Hollow last week wasn't just his worst score on the PGA Tour. For the first time anyone could remember, Woods looked as i...