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Tiger's tournament enters the Tiger Chasm

By Tom Kirkendall

  The Tiger Chasm -- the widening netherworld of golf tournaments that don't attract much attention because Tiger Woods doesn't play in them -- has now swallowed even Tiger's own tournament, this weekend's AT&T National at Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C.

Last year, most of the best PGA Tour players -- including Woods, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, Geoff Ogilvy, and Justin Rose -- played in the AT&T National.  With Tiger resting after recent knee surgery, none of those players are competing this year and only one top-10 player in the World Rankings -- Steve Stricker -- is bothering to show up.

To make matters worse, tournament title sponsor AT&T cannot be particularly happy about forking over the big bucks only to have USA Today run the headline above in its article on the tournament. (H/T Geoff Shackelford).

Welcome to the Tiger Chasm.

By the way, this Bloomberg.com article analyzes the probable technique used to repair Woods' ACL during the surgery. Definitely worth a read.

Full post as published by Houston's Clear Thinkers on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).