There is no question, some of the PGA Tour stars want a shorter season than all of us fans do. It's been a long time since we've had any real competition to satisfy our pro golf jones. The Mercedes had some good subplots afoot with some of them being Stuart Appleby going for the 3-peat, Vijay trying to re-establish his dominance of everybody not named Tiger, Michael Campbell and Olin Browne trying to prove last year was not a fluke, and Jim Furyk trying to win with new irons from a brand new sponsor. And now that we've finally had something to feast our eyes on, the temptation is to make assumptions about everybody based on a single week of competition.

But golf at this level cannot be dissected so quickly. No, we need to look for patterns over the long haul. For instance, last year Nick O'Hern beat Tiger Woods head-to-head in the WGC Match Play. Did that mean anything? Other than to prove once again that in a single round -- especially match play -- anything can happen, no.

This temptation to quickly judge will manifest itself ten-fold amongst those who follow teenage phenom Michelle Wie. Blogs and emails will be in full flight once her results from the Sony start coming in. The Wie fans will rejoice with each birdie and par, while the anti-Wie camp will hoot with each bogey or double. I would suggest a little restraint to get a clearer picture.

What I saw this week in Hawaii was that there are horses for courses as Appleby plays the Plantation course better than any other on Tour. He and Vijay had good putting weeks that may or may not mean improvement for the year. Sergio still putts like Stevie Wonder. Furyk could probably rip a branch off a tree and be accurate hitting a golf ball with it. The rest will need some more time to percolate and, thank God, now we can watch to see what bubbles up.

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