There will be no bigger Tiger Woods fans this afternoon than the blue blazer-wearing leaders of the United States Golf Association. The USGA needs Woods to win so they can dismiss any truth talk about how they hoisted another ridiculous U.S. Open setup on the American public.

Oakmont is as much of a joke as Phil Mickelson says it is. Only if Woods turns back the no-names and soon-to-be-forgottens, the USGA knows it’s assured of another free pass.

Then the blue blazers can point to the fact that the greatest golfer in history won their event, so it must be that “true test of golf” they always wax poetic about.

Only the argument makes less sense than Paris Hilton when she’s talking religion. Tiger wins U.S. Opens because he’d win anything. You could hold a major on Jupiter with aliens with superpowers in the field and Tiger would still find a way to win. He’d scout out the gravity, come up with a gameplan, stare down the no-nerves tentacles set.

He’s just that good.

The shame is in the era when the USGA leaders have turned majors into bores, they get bailed out by Woods’ historic brilliance.

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