After an impressive bit of play on Friday, Phil Mickelson was missing some of his mojo at he took to the course at Pebble Beach, CA for the US Open. Shooting 1-over 73 for a total of 214, Lefty is seven shots off the lead.
Topping the leaderboard is American Dustin Johnson (pictured left), who is [...]

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With all of the attention surrounding Tiger Woods’ return to golf this week at The Masters, I’m surprised how little talk there has been about how he is actually going to play.

As our collective focus shifts from the gossip blogs to Tiger’s 1:42pm tee time on Thursday, many seem to think he will be in contention over the weekend. As Andy North of ESPN said today, echoing the sentiments of many, “if he thinks he can win, ya know, it’s hard to bet against him.”

Tiger does indeed have a strong track record at Augusta and has successfully battled adversity in the past. Heck, when he drained that putt on 18 to force a playoff at Torrey Pines, he achieved otherworldly status in my book. Then there was the crash…

Those who predict that he will falter this week generally point to the obvious challenges: mental angst and a rusty golf game. While these are legitimate concerns, there is more to the story here. The old Tiger was nearly always able to compartmentalize distractions and dominate even with limited preparation before majors. But alas, this is not the same Tiger Woods we knew 6 months ago.

Tiger has lost his mojo

While his press conference Monday was upfront, honest and impressive in regard to his personal life, it also revealed a lot about his approach to the tournament. He confirmed that he just recently began practicing again, intimated that he’d be more subdued on the course, and said winning golf tournaments is “irrelevant compared to the damage I’ve caused”.

Would Tiger have won his 14 majors if he had been more subdued on the course and outwardly diminished the importance of winning THE MASTERS?! I don’t think so.

What if he hadn’t been constantly sleeping with different women to feed his ego? Hmm….

Well, if Austin Powers can be taken literally, Tiger is in big trouble this week. Austin Powers’ [Tiger Woods] mojo was the driving force behind him attracting women [hookers] and being a successful spy [golfer]. He thought Dr. Evil [the media] had stolen it until his true love, Felicity Shagwell [Elin Nordegren or Rachel Uchitel?], helped him realize that he really had his mojo all along.

This is where the comparison seems to end as neither of Tiger’s true loves will be at Augusta to help him rediscover his mojo. If he’s on the cut line Friday afternoon, maybe he’ll get desperate and bring Joslyn James in from Atlanta to help get him over the hump.

Bottom line

Tiger is more likely to shoot over par than under this week and frankly I’d be shocked if he made the cut. I do think he can rediscover his mojo someday, but he is still reeling emotionally and must be experiencing some serious withdrawal from sexual activity…or is he?

I hope Tiger can turn his personal life around, but his ability to do so seems to be at odds with him excelling on the golf course. Like many, I will be torn while watching Tiger play this week, unsure whether I want to see the determined immortal or the humbled man no longer obsessed with dominance.

If, as I expect, I see the humbled Tiger Woods flounder around Augusta on Thursday and Friday, I will wonder: will he ever win again?

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Well, things just got interesting. The very evening of the App Catalog’s launch of paid apps, Palm has made a very different kind of announcement: it’s going to let developers skip out on the App Catalog if they so choose. Devs will be able to submit an app to Palm, who will turn around and give them a URL for open distribution of the app over the web — without a review process getting in the way! The App Catalog will still exist for those who want to use it of course, with a $50 entrance fee to get an app inside — and we’re guessing it’ll remain the only way to distribute paid apps — but the new URL distribution should decentralize things just a little bit. In other good news, Palm will be dropping the $99 annual developer fee for folks building open source apps, and hopefully that free ride applies to App Catalog entry as well, though now there’s web distribution to make it less of a sticking point. Palm’s also going to open up its analytic data to developers, and even is giving away Pres and Touchstones to the audience members of the little shindig privy to this announcement — clearly the company is making a strong play for developers, and who doesn’t like to be loved?

[Thanks, Lawrence]

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