Just When You Thought It Was Safe…

…To forget about driver testing. Turns out Tiger had to get his Nike driver tested at the request of Tom Pernice. Excuse me, that's Tom Pernice Jr. (the Tour hopes we’ll confuse these Jr.'s and III's with English gentry by tacking that onto their names, even if the players don’t like it…I wish I was making that up).

AP's Doug Ferguson has all of the details of Tiger driver test and reiterates the following anecdote related to another recent anonymous equipment check:

Tour officials tested the grooves in Phil Mickelson's wedges two years ago because someone saw him hit a shot out of the rough with an extraordinary amount of spin. Before long, Mickelson figured out it was Michael Clark, and left him a note in his locker thanking him for his concern and wishing him well at Q-school.

And you didn’t think Phil had a sense of humor?