Like the Rest of Us, Tiger Does Not Watch Golf Telecasts for the Commentary

Tiger Woods is currently peg-legging it around Orlando, recovering from knee surgery that obviously had everything to do with him not winning The Masters. Between grueling afternoons lounging by the pool staring at his wife, and spending some QT with his daughter, Eldrick took time out of his busy rehab schedule to talk to FOX Sports Radio's Steve Czaban last week.

After some friendly banter, Czaban asked Woods why he hates Phil Mickelson.* And then the conversation turned to the network's golf coverage:

Czaban: "Do you TiVo tournaments you're in, then go back and look at them afterward, maybe take notes, notice something, listen to what the announcers are saying?"

Said Woods: "I usually have my secretary get a copy of the telecasts from the PGA Tour and I'll take a look at it just from the swing standpoint, yeah."

Czaban: "Just the swing, though. You really won't sit down and . . . "

Woods: "Listen to the commentators? No, never."

Hardly surprising, I guess. Most commentators -- even those who played the sport before "graduating" to the booth -- don't know what they're talking about. A lot it has to do with access; how can Johnny Miller know what's wrong with Vijah Singh's swing if he doesn't know what Singh is working on? Miller can make an educated guess -- he's a pretty smart dude -- but that doesn't necessarily make his opinion any less wrong than ours.

That said, golf commentators are light years ahead of other, more popular sports bobbleheads. Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan in baseball, Tony Kornheiser in football, Dick Vitale and Billy Packer in college basketball; all are exponentially worse than Nick Faldo or Johnny Miller or Dan Hicks at their most inebriated.

But that doesn't mean Tiger -- or anybody else on Tour -- has to listen to them. That's what secretary's are for.

* complete fabrication