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Here are the players who had rounds under par:

1 Hennie Otto
2 Greg Norman
2 Davis Love III
4 S.K. Ho
4 Fredrik Jacobson
6 Mathias Gronberg


No real threat among them.

You would know this if you knew ANYTHING about golf.

[discostu]

The only threat is they're all ahead of him by at least two strokes, Hennie Otto is up on him by 5. Now you can always count on Norman to choke and plummet but there's plenty of people in a better position to capitalize on that than Woods.

No sane person would have considered Mike Weir a threat to Tiger, yet he beat Tiger by 9 strokes at the Masters.

Only the most severe of golf fanatics had even heard of Jim Furyk, and he beat Tiger by 11 strokes at the US Open.

Sure on paper none of these have a prayer, but like Bergman says "that's why they play the game". The fact is that 1/4 of the way through Tiger is off the lead by 5 strokes. Yeah he's playing catch-up to a no name that doesn't even show up in the player index on the PGA Tour page (imagine my chagrin), but that's more of a negative for Tiger than a positive. Being 5 strokes off the lead after 1 is bad enough being 5 strokes behind "who the hell is that" is the kind of thing that gets in people's heads. And if you knew anything about... well anything you'd know that.