Tiger Woods' mug is plastered on the top front corner of USA Today's front page Friday with the headline "Woods looks rusty at Buick." A few days later, he's collecting another trophy and first-place check.

This is why Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time.

Phil Mickelson told TravelGolf.com how it's "nice to work some rust off" after a Bob Hope Chrysler Classic season debut in which he never even challenged on Sunday. Tiger throws the cobwebs off his game by collecting his 47th career PGA Tour win.

And it's not like that's unusual. Tiger always seems to win his first event of the season (four out of 10 times actually, a .400 average that Ted Williams would gawk at).

I love these yahoos we have blogging here who chalk it up to Tiger's opposition folding or some cosmic intervention.

Maybe, it's just because Tiger is that good. The greatest ever in fact. Everyone makes mistakes over four rounds of golf at some point. I think I remember one Old Man Yokel writing this at some point (not that he could recall). Tiger makes fewer mistakes than all the rest. He makes the shots he needs to win.

It's no coincidence he's 12-1 in career playoffs worldwide. Maybe, the yahoos might want to argue he's just an alien. It would make more sense than what they're going with now.

Can we stop trying to discount Tiger's greatness? Just enjoy it while you can. Which looks like another good 10 years now.

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