Kim, scrambling on No. 9 Sunday, held a share of the lead with five holes to play but a bogey on 14 derailed his bid.
Thrust squarely into the week's anti-climax was Singh, who was in the unenviable position of accepting heartfelt congratulations for playing badly -- something neither Vijay nor any player of his stature is in the least bit fond of doing. To Singh's credit, and in marked contrast to his reaction at the BMW Championship in St. Louis, he managed to grin and bear it with reasonable graciousness.
And, speaking of suits, which one do you suppose it was who got to place the call to Singh asking him to play nice with the laptop set after Vijay more-or-less stiffed 'em following his more-or-less Cup-clinching T-44 finish weeks ago in the BMW? Dialing for Vijay, that hastily arranged telephone call-in show, was generally reputed to be about as interesting as the average telemarketing call. What would have been truly fascinating, however, was the tour's version of Peter Seller's President Merkin Muffley talking on the hotline to Vijay, playing Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov from Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove." The suit's end of the conversation probably sounded something like this: "Hello Vijay? Listen, uh, I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? ... Oh, that's much better ... yeah ... huh ... yes ... Fine, I can hear you now, Vijay ... Clear and plain and coming through fine ... I'm coming through fine, too, eh? ... Good, then ... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine ... Good ... Well, it's good that you're fine and ... and I'm fine ... I agree with you, it's great to be fine ... Now then, Vijay, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb ... The Bomb, Vijay ..."
And what bigger bomb have we had this year than the FedEx Cup? Let's hope the Ponte Vedra Project's better days are ahead of it.
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