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. And by all means, Tiger can go ahead and say he doesn’t expect much out of himself this year. He can say it, but I don’t care and I really wish ESPN didn’t report on it, because an athlete has to go out and try to win, and that’s it. It’s not like Brian Urlacher gets to say that after missing the playoffs, the Bears are happy with their season because they won seven games and that’s pretty good.

Interesting semi-side note: Yesterday on Around the Horn they were debating whether Tiger should have been fined for his comments against the referee (don’t know how I feel but I though it was a good thing for Tiger to do anyway). Woody Paige wondered what would have happened if the PGA had fined Tiger, and then Tiger said no? Seriously, I don’t know what would have happened, because the PGA needs Tiger, but Tiger doesn’t need the PGA. He can just go out and play and someone’s going to play with him.

The issue is that after Thursday was rained-out, the USGA announced that they would be upholding their “policy” that there would be no compensation for fans who only got to see three lousy hours of golf as opposed to a whole day. Apparently, they took the policy off the website for a few hours on Thursday, leaving some to speculate that they would be offering refunds or rain checks for tickets, but to no avail, later on the announcement came.

I understand that it wouldn’t be the easiest thing in the world to do something about it, but the fact of the matter is that these are golf’s biggest fans, who paid $100 per ticket, and traveled from all over to come to the Open because I can’t really see that many coming from Bethpage, and now they’re pissed off, and rightfully so. Just because someone hit a tee shot, they’re tickets are automatically official and can’t be changed? It really wouldn’t be that hard to set something up for people to send in their tickets for a refund, or better yet, send them in to watch play on Monday because given the way weather looks now, that’s what it will probably come to. On the whole, I just hate when professional sports organizations don’t treat fans like what they are, the sports biggest and only supporters, and customers.