Tour Championship

 
Tour Championship Observations - caught most of the TV coverage today (on DVR...), just a few thoughts.

- Par four fifth hole is a monster. Not often you see PGA Tour players with 200+ yard approach shots into par fours. Played at 520 yards today, Tiger had 204 for his approach shot.

- Billy Andrade is a great guy...but needs to work on his announcing skills. If he says perfect one more time, I think I’ll scream. He said it five times in the first six shots he called.

- It was something to watch Stewart Cink hit two straight out of bounds on the 10th. First one bounced over a fence boarding a road. A bit unlucky that it took such a huge hop, but he left no doubt with his second ball, flying it over the fence by a good couple yards (thanks to great blimp camera work). Even better was to see Cink looking over the fence to see if they were really there.

- Why in the world would you build your 18th hole to be a par three?

- I love the “worm cam”...the camera view where it is as though the camera is resting on the ground behind the player. Very interesting to watch the break from that angle. With the field noticeably smaller this week, I would think this would be easier to facilitate, but didn’t see too many worm cam shots today.

- I would think one could say this fairly regularly...but if Tiger made even half the putts he should have today, he would have gone low. He missed at least half a dozen fairly easy putts inside 15 feet. He is hitting the ball pretty well, just not capitalizing when he should -- like the five wood to five feet, missing his eagle putt.

Lots of golf left, but doesn't seem like anyone else in the running wants to make a move at the top. Course is not playing overly difficult (easy for me to say...) but the way the TV folks are praising its condition tee-to-green, no reason there couldn't be some low numbers mixed in.