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PGA Championship … um … preview (?)
The biggest golf event of this week, and supposedly one of the four biggest golf tournaments of this year, will take place at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
My question: will anyone notice?
If Tiger were playing, then yeah, there would be a ton of focus on the Detroit area this week as Woods would be going after his third straight PGA Championship. As it is, Tiger has still been in the news as he did a very casual, very blah interview with ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt this week. The most enlightening thing Van Pelt drew out of Tiger was that Tiger, with his recently surgically repaired knee, is having trouble keeping up with daughter Sam as she bounces around the house. Doesn’t Tiger have a nanny for such tasks?
So pro golfers will tackle the PGA Championship in the absence of Tiger and, therefore mostly likely, in the absence of much attention. It’s seems everyone in the sports universe is focused on either pollution in China or an old quarterback who’s trying to decide if he wants to come back to the NFL to throw more interceptions.
I wrote in a column earlier this summer that Tiger’s injury wouldn’t cripple golf or Tiger. But I didn’t deny that there would be some pain in the meantime.
Also, does it seem to anybody else that Scott Van Pelt could save some time by just tattooing “I’m on a first-name basis with Tiger Woods” on his forehead? Every time Van Pelt cover golf he has to mention that he know Tiger. We get it. Honestly, I’ve never heard another broadcaster attempt to get more mileage out of a friendship with an athlete than Van Pelt does with Woods.
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