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Tiger's Soft, Boring Play Opens Door

Aug 15, 2009 – 9:26 PM
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Jay Mariotti

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CHASKA, Minn. -- So here we thought Tiger Woods' weekend would be a summer breeze, much like the vision of a high-heeled Prince riding his motorcycle in "Purple Rain,'' which is the lone factoid I can provide about the country roads and middle-of-nowhere milieu surrounding the Hazeltine National Golf Club.

Instead, this was a day when new, peculiar words were introduced to the Woods lexicon. There was "skanky,'' used by CBS commentator Nick Faldo to describe two terrible shots on No. 15, which prompted Tiger to slip into whiny-baby mode and swing his club violently. And there was "choking,'' whispered cryptically Saturday across the PGA Championship landscape as his four-shot lead disappeared. Just the day before, Woods seemed befuddled when a media member actually uttered the c-word at a press conference, inquiring, "In your opinion, has there ever been a single instance in a major where you've done what you consider to be choking?''

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