1 – Reality, not hysteria

At what point will these “Tiger Tracker” comeback sagas be treated realistically and not insult our intelligence?

2 – Presidential powers

Presidents Day has been downgraded in this country, sadly. But working to my own agenda, here’s a Presidents Day shout out to Howard Taft, No. 27 in your program. He loved golf with a passion, even after tumbling into a bunker at the Myopia Hunt Club north of Boston and requiring all the king’s horses and all the king’s men to get him out. Once rescued, President Taft was undeterred in his continued love affair with golf.

3 – Like, who isn’t long?

Predicting favorites for a golf tournament based on those who can “bomb it off the tee” really whittles down the field for bettors looking for inside dope. You must be left with only 137 candidates. So silly.

4 – Leave the rule alone

Vintage America in the Year 2024. Don’t like the rule about having to actually spend 45 seconds confirming your golf score, let’s change it. Good gracious, how much responsibility can you pour on these young guys making millions?

5 – Briefcases in the scoring trailer

You have to figure that players will eventually demand that an accountant from their management group sit with them post-round and add up the numbers.

6 – Sounds familiar, no?

If you could measure laughter like you can ball speed, Greg Norman’s would have to be off the charts when he hears Rory McIlroy discuss visions of a “world tour.”

7 – Easy now

Come on, tell the truth. You’re in the Boston area and you’re confident there’ll be no snow for what’s left of February. And you’ve peeked at the long-range March forecast (showers, sunny and warm stretches, average day temperature 48) and you are doing cartwheels. You, my friend, are not taking it one shot at a time.

8 – Send in the graphologists

Honestly, is there one autograph worth having anymore? Meaning one you can actually decipher whose name is written.

9 – Leg leg here, right arm there . . .

You know all these cookie-cutter pros who say, “I trust the process.” Well, some of them are also faithful to training aids that look like they’re playing a game of “Twister.” So what’s that tell you?