As egregious an error that perhaps has ever been thrust on tournament golf, Stewart Cink, Jim Furyk , and the other 100 or so players in the Bridgestone Invitational took place this week.

As we all know by now Tiger has won 50-something tournaments and 12 majors in 10, count them, 10 years!

Spotting Tiger even one shot in any event is like giving Roger Clemens a 2-strike strikeout, 5 downs to the Steelers or an extra free-throw to Shaq Diesel…OK, the analogy is stretched too thin there but you know what I mean…

…of what error do I speak? The off the clubhouse-through the parking lot – into the pocket of the cook shot-nothin’ but net…you know those high-fashion black and white check numbers chefs wear?

The clubhouse wasn’t out of bounds…that much we know…it should have been, and Tiger said so…or chuckled so…that’s not the issue.

I went to a rules seminar one time years ago where the instructor was rules expert and Athens CC pro Ed Hoard. Ed told us when you are officiating at a Tour event the players will expect a ruling by who they are and how many tournaments they’ve won…a couple of majors, according to Ed, and they call you “Son”.

Not the case here…his Tigerness abided by the ruling of the official…that’s what’s expected…no problem there.

What I don’t get is every day we play and I hit it into the woods, you act like you’re helping to find it…looking at the shine on your FJs is more like it…at about 3 minutes it feels like we’ve been looking for 20 so I say. “It’s gone, let’s go”

When the dust cleared on number nine at Firestone…35 minutes had passed…last time I looked a ball is lost after 5? So what happened?