Tiger Woods has had some absolutely remarkable years, but 2008 is his best start ever to a season.
Woods has won four of his first six tournaments, including
Monday's playoff victory over
Rocco Mediate at the
U.S. Open.
In his career as a professional, Tiger has only had one full season (1998) where he didn't win one of his first six events and has had six seasons where he's won at least two of his first six tournaments.
Woods has already made $5,775,000, nearly $2 million more than second place
Phil Mickelson in eight less tournaments and is leading the FedEx Cup by 6,755 points over Lefty.
With years like 2000 and 2006 where Tiger won nine and eight tournaments, respectively, it will be interesting to see if he can get to double digits in a year
where he is battling a troubled knee. A healthy Woods would be on a semi-realistic pace to get to 10 wins, but with the knee lingering after five days at Torrey Pines, six more wins seems unlikely.
Just to toot Tiger's horn one more times, his four victories this season are more than
Andy North,
Padraig Harrington and
Chris DiMarco have had in their careers on the PGA Tour.
Golf is a game of superstitions. People mark their balls the same way every time (tails up for me), prepare the same, and, if things are going well, even eat the same meal all week. If golf had a Taj Mahal of superstitions, it would be winning the Par-3 Tournament at the Masters, a nine-hole event played every year since 1960 on the Wednesday before tournament day. 
