This week, Tiger Woods will do something he has not done since 1994, the summer before his freshman year at Stanford. He will watch the first round of the U.S. Open on television.
I was thinking about that over the weekend. Mostly, I was thinking about what Woods might be thinking Thursday when, because of a troubling knee injury, golf's national championship begins without him.
Here's one thing I think Woods might be thinking as he fiddles with the remote control: Maybe I shouldn't have played in the 2008 U.S. Open after all.