Sometime between when Lorena Ochoa knocked in her last par and when she jumped into that lake with her parents and a couple of dozen friends, someone slipped her Tiger Woods cell phone number right?

After all, we were fed that shared-sponsor-friendly story for years of how Annika Sorenstam and Tiger text messaged each other major challenges. Sorenstam loved to tell that one about the “10-10″ majors won message.

Of course, now that Tiger’s zoomed past Sorenstam like she’s Arnold Palmer standing off the green in a loud sports coat, now that Sorenstam suddenly doesn’t seem like she’ll be adding much major hardware, you don’t hear anything about their text messaging.

So shouldn’t Ochoa - who still doesn’t have the right sponsor to make her matter to Woods - be given the secret code to hit Tiger before Augusta?

After all, it’s hard to imagine a majors victory more convincingly ho-hum than Ochoa’s five-shot triumph in the Kraft Nabisco. She didn’t play that well all week and still ended up never being challenged. It makes anyone who wondered - and it was a legit wonder Lorena lackeys - if she could consistently perform under majors pressure look like a fool.

It turns out, it doesn’t matter. Because no one on the LPGA Tour’s close enough to Ochoa to make it matter. Ochoa missed a boatload of easy putts at Mission Hills and still breezed. Her game is sometimes hard to appreciate because she doesn’t hit pure wow shots like Tiger. Instead Ochoa kills softly with well-struck, consistent irons.

As I wrote a year ago, Lorena Ochoa deserves more attention (you can question an athlete’s track record under pressure and not be “against” that athlete). Now, she deserves Tiger’s number and some of those silly, staged bits he had with Sorenstam.

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