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The golf world is gearing up for the PGA Championships. And when you have golf, you have Tiger. As usual, the media is focusing 99 percent of its attention on Tiger Woods, leaving the rest of the field in the dust, and always begging the question: Are you picking Tiger, or are you picking anyone else? In truth, Tiger did appear to have some injury concerns today, so I suppose he was worth mentioning. But over the past couple of days, the vast majority of what I have been hearing is people wondering if Tiger is putting extra pressure on himself becuase he hasn’t won a major yet. Fair question, I suppose. But the next question is always, “If he doesn’t win, will Tiger consider it a failure?”

Here’s where I have a problem. I don’t care whether TIger considers his season a failure, I get to choose what I think on that subject. And when the question is always answered with, “Tiger has set different expectations for himself because of his surgery.” So what? Tiger’s job is to go out there and try to win the major. End of story. Then the rest of us get sit around the dinner table and debate whether he is really that good or whether this season was a “failure” and when his knee will fully recover and all that business.