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Was there any doubt?  Tiger wins the inaugural PGA Tour playoffs.  Not only does he win, he lets everyone know who reigns in the golf world.  His utter domination was reflected in the fact that Sunday was just an afterthought.  You could see the dejection in Mark Calcavechia as he tried hard to make a run but could not pressure Tiger.  The rest of the field was playing for second as they could not handle the pin placements while Tiger looked like light it up through Saturday though.  Zach Johnson put on a show almost netting a 59 Saturday, Sergio showed he can be a contender.  Steve Stricker’s rebirth culminated to a second place and showed he has the game to challenge just about everyone.  I look forward to seeing how they will tweak the system as Tiger didn’t need to show up in Atlanta to win the cup and I believe the Fedex Cup was a success.

If there is one thing that we know about Tiger is that he lets his competitors know who is boss when the time is right.  65-64 are you kidding me?  There are a lot of guys who can score a low round like Tim Clark or Paddy Harrington but the consistency of Mr. Woods is amazing to me.  When he has a hot putter no one I repeat no one in history can beat him.  His power game matches anyone out there, his iron game is as good as anyone in history, throw in a short game even better than the magician Phil Mickelson, wow.  Do we even have to watch the weekend golf to know the winner?  We will anyhow because we will be watching the greatest golfer of all time take the first ever playoff with the strongest competition anyone has ever dealt with.  Amazing.

As I watched the Barclay’s tournament this past weekend I couldn’t help but think that it was history in the making, but something was missing.  Oh I remember, the best golfer of our time skipped the first tournament, Mr. Tiger Woods.  I’m guessing when they designed this format they figured everyone would play the final four tournaments…wrong.  I saw Ernie Els was skipping the next tournament to see off his kids to school…off to school?  So $10 million dollars doesn’t entice these guys as much as the PGA would like us to think.  To much money flows at the top of the respective sports any more.  It’s all business and barely any heart any more.  It used to be that you played for the glory of being called the best.  Oh well, guess Steve Stricker and K.J. Choi will have to battle it out for the Superbowl of golf…sounds like a winner to me.