Even with another PGA Tournament underway - the Honda Classic at the extremely underrated PGA National Champion Course - Tiger Woods' dominance at the World Match Play and throughout 2008 remains the topic in the golf world. Once a few national golf writers realized they could not be first on the Tiger perfect season bandwagon - started by WorldGolf.com's William K. Wolfrum - they decided to one-up Wolfrum with talk that Tiger's not only going to have a perfect season, he's going to decide the U.S. presidency, probably somehow sweep the Beijing Olympics (even if golf's not in it), invent the world's greatest barbecue grill (watch out Foreman!) and kick Bill Belichick right in the hoodie.

(On a sidenote, when Tiger himself finally declares going undefeated for 08 is his driving goal - and even TravelGolf.com's Tim McDonald notices that something's going on in the "underground" of blogging - the story's gone so mainstream that Katie Couric will be talking about it by Bay Hill).

Funny thing though. In Tucson, where Tiger's blitz started it all, they're not talking Tiger as much as they're talking Vijay Singh. Yes, the same Vijay who quietly went out in the Match Play quarterfinals and didn't play all that well in even getting that far, the same Vijay who smart golf fans know is done as a contender in major events.

In the days after the Match Play, going around and playing various Tucson-area courses, I've run into three different golf-nuts who volunteered at the Gallery Golf Club during the tourney and each one couldn't stop talking about how nice Vijay was to the little people. A volunteer at the driving range told how Singh went out of his way to come down and thank all the workers at the range - after he was eliminated.

That just doesn't happen in pro golf. It really doesn't happen in professional sports period. Maybe the winner of the whole event remembers to thank everyone in his big-check trophy joy. But somehow who's still smarting from a tough loss? The only guy Rory Sabbatini is thanking in that situation is himself.

I never been a big Vijay fan. But you cannot help but appreciate a pro who goes out of his way to make the volunteers feel valuable after he's been kicked in the teeth by another loss. That's class no matter what else you think of what Singh's done in his career.

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