Thin To Win***

And here I was thinking Tiger merely was benching a few more pounds. Or it was all that roll the guys are getting on today's super firm courses (that 363 yard drive on 8 must have rolled at least 15 yards!). Turns out, the new 3-wood helped him reach Doral's par-5 12th en route to a win.

Q. The second shot at 12, ShotLink said it carried 300 yards.

TIGER WOODS: It ended up rolling out that far. It was 277 to the front and I probably carried it, what, 280 and it rolled the rest of the way.

Q. But you thinned it?

TIGER WOODS: I did. If you watched my reaction I kind of, oh, great, because I up shot it. Luckily the wind was a little bit down off the left and it stayed in the air. It kind of floated a little bit. This 3-wood is a little bit longer than my older 3-wood but it was nice to get a great break like that. What's important is I capitalized on that break and made the putt.

Oh and Ford must be thrilled to read where their GT is going:

Q. And secondly who gets the keys to that car?

TIGER WOODS: Stevie.

***Update: Reader Steve reports that Tiger hit 46.4 percent of his fairways for the week at Doral, which ties the seventh-worst driving effort of his career. He hit 44.6 percent at the Buick, which ranks as his fifth-worst week. Keep flogging. Oh and thanks to the many readers who emailed to tell me that flog is golf spelled backwards. Hard as it is to believe, I was aware of that, as well as the nice double meaning (golf backwards…get it)