Tiger's Apple Getting the Ecko Treatment Plus Possible DNA Testing

Darren Rovell has been all over the Tiger-Apple-Ebay scene lately, and he didn't skip a beat on the newest development: fantasy sports site RotoHog has purchased the "Monday Apple" eaten by Tiger during the U.S. Open playoff and is holding a vote to determine what they should do with the rotten scrap of fruit.

"We were looking for something that would be a good Golden Palace play," said Shane Igoe, the site's director of content and viral marketing, referring to the online casino that has generated publicity by buying weird auction items.

A la Marc Ecko, who put the Barry Bonds' No. 756 home run ball up for a public vote, the folks at Rotohog are asking the masses what they should do with the apple.

It's a pretty good move on the part of RotoHog -- our nation's collective fascination with food, celebrity and the webbie-tubes are a solid combination to market off of. Of course, unlike Ecko, RotoHog guarantees to actually follow through with whatever the public decides (and is mocking the designer/baseball-history-ruiner on the site, +1). Anyway, head over to the Tiger Apple site and get your vote on.

To keep you prepared before you do, the choices are ...

A. Plant it. Petition San Diego County and Torrey Pines to use the seeds of the apple to plant a tree on the 16th hole of the South course to commemorate Tiger and even Rocco – as we would also donate a rock to sit next to Tiger's apple tree.

B. Plane it. Send the apple--and a lucky person to the PGA–-to serve as Tiger's representative since he is currently on the mend.

C. Pound it. Tee it up at Torrey Pines and have a celebrity hitter blast the apple core.

D. Prove it. Send the apple to a leading scientific facility to conduct a DNA test to prove once and for all if it is indeed Tiger's and to gauge any cloning potential.

"C" sounds like the most fun, ala John Daly + Kid Rock + Bronson. But, like Rovell, I think "D" is the most intriguing. We always see these cockamamie shenanigans on the EBays and it would be nice to know for once whether or not something like this was actually real.