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In his first public interview after a practice round at The Masters yesterday Tiger Woods appeared calm, cool and well-coached in front of the cameras. As for his golf game, he looked ready to contend.

And in my golf league debut last night I was anything but calm, cool and well-coached or ready to contend. Actually I stunk the place up pretty good. That must be why Tiger gets the big bucks.

The sports world eagerly anticipates two major events this week. One of them is the opening night of the start of the Christian Fellowship Golf League on Monday which involves yours truly, but unfortunately the other news event begins later in the week in Augusta, Georgia and involves a slightly better known golfer named Tiger.

Yes, Tiger Woods will again be the news centerpiece after a long and somewhat sordid absence from the game. This will be a huge sports news story with world coverage, but unfortunately that likely means that the cameras will be absent from the other event which for the first time will be held weekly at The Falls Golf Club in O’Fallon, Missouri.

With all that Tiger has on his plate, it just astounds me that he could even contemplate his return to golf and in the process steal away the major media coverage from our opening night of our league. But while you may not hear much about sixteen men hacking and slashing their way through those nine holes on morning news shows Tuesday morning, if anything even remotely newsworthy occurs, you can read about it here.