It was golfer against the golf course, against the rest of the field, on his own, with no place to hide, no team to fall back on, no teammates to blame for missed shots or other mistakes.
If I've learned anything from car shopping, it's that golfers worry a lot about where to keep their stuff, unless "clubs" is code for "mistress".
"It's every golfers' dream to play in the Open and now it's happening to me on my doorstep," he said.
Perhaps it's that golfers are happy to have finally thrown off that pastel-riven stereotype, but most golf clothes these days are chosen from the same khaki, navy, green and maroon palette.
"This works because we're bikers, if we were golfers it wouldn't work".
It's Europe's best golfers against the US.
It is the golfer's version of methadone.
"It is every golfer's dream to walk the fairways of Augusta National," he said.
But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
Suggestions it was the golfer's mother were soon quashed as a statement from the hospital confirmed that the patient was the mother of Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.
