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Jim Carrey tweeted:

"No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle ;^)"

"Tiger Woods owes nothing 2 anyone but himself. 2 please his father he gave up his childhood and his freedom in the world. That's enough!--->"

The Golf Blog says: chutzpah! Jim Carrey, go stick a sock in it!

Schadenfreude is a great German word that means you take pleasure in the misfortunes of other.

Well, Bruce Jenkins openly admits that he took pleasure in seeing Tiger Woods lose the Masters and everyone he talked to shared the same feeling. Jenkins writes:

"There was always a bit of the punk in Tiger Woods, but I always loved watching him play, and I always wanted him to win. The whole show was just too compelling. It wasn't that way over the weekend. I wanted Tiger to lose -- and it's not just the sex thing. The guy's just too weird."

I got that opinion from everyone I talked to about the Masters -- men, women, teenagers, younger kids, hard-core fans, casual observers. Go, Phil. Tiger's the bad guy now. He may eventually get past the stigma of his heinous off-course behavior, but I'm not sure he's bright enough to shake the weirdness.

The Golf Blog says: we didn't share the same feeling as Jenkins. It was a great tourney and having Tiger Woods in the mix was certainly better for the competition. We do have to admit that we've supported Tiger a lot in the past and probably are not as big supporters as we were. Had we been forced to pick between Phil and Tiger yesterday, we would have picked Phil in a heartbeat. How could you not, with his wife and mom battling breast cancer this year? But we weren't rooting against Tiger. We do agree, though, with Jenkins that Tiger's new Nike commercial using his dead father's voice was in very, very poor taste.

It was de ja vu all over again. After parring the front nine, Phil Mickelson finally propelled his round at Amen Corner, on the devilish par-3 12th over Rae's Creek. Just as he did in 2004 to win his first green jacket, Phil rolled in a downhill birdie putt with slight left to right break. On the next hole, Phil hit a spectacular 6-iron from the pine needles in between two trees and over the creek to land just 5-feet away for eagle. The shot was unbelievable -- high risk, high reward. And, even though he missed the short, sliding putt--Phil separated himself from Lee Westwood (and a charging Anthony Kim, who went birdie-birdie-eagle on 13, 14, 15 and would post -12) by birdieing 13 and 15. Click here for Phil's interview talking about the shot

Lee Westwood, who, like Phil, had trouble off the tee, couldn't get much going until the very end, with a nice birdie on 17 to pull within 2 of Phil, which put a little pressure on Phil for the final hole. Hats off to Westwood who is surely the Best Player Who Hasn't Won a Major (very reminiscent of how Phil Mickelson was, not too long ago).

Phil, however, would not be denied. He birdied the 18th, when the tourney and green jacket were already his. It was an emotional victory for Phil, as his wife Amy and his mom are both battling breast cancer. When Phil walked off the 18th green, he hugged Amy, who had already been crying. The two hugged, and the camera caught a tear trickling down Phil's face. So poignant. What a memorable victory.

Tiger Woods had a rollercoaster of day, starting off with 3 bogeys on the first 5 holes, but then holing out for eagle on 7 and going birdie-birdie. On the back nine, Tiger had the same ups and downs, with 2 bogeys, 2 birdies, and an eagle. Even though he was spraying shots all over the course, Tiger managed to shoot 69. That was amazing in itself, given how wild his ballstriking was.

Shout out to 16 year old Matteo Manassero who was low amateur at +3. Wow. That is so impressive! Go back to high school, Matteo!

Leaderboard

-16 Phil Mickelson
-13 Lee Westwood
-12 Anthony Kim
-11 Tiger Woods, KJ Choi
-9 Fred Couples
-8 Nick Watney
-7 YE Yang, Hunter Mahan
-5 Ian Poulter, Rickey Barnes

Click here for video highlights

Phil Mickelson electrified the crowd at Amen corner by eagling 13 and 14, back to back, with a scintillating 138 yard hole out to cap the dramatic charge. Lefty almost holed out his wedge on the 15th for what would have been an impossible eagle-eagle-eagle combination. Lee Westwood still has the lead at -12, but Lefty got himself into the final group at -11. That's a good thing: in 17 of the last 18 Masters, the winner has come from the final group.

Click here for the video of Phil's eagle-eagle-birdie run

Leaderboard
-12 Lee Westwood
-11 Phil Mickelson
-8 Tiger Woods, KJ Choi
-7 Fred Couples
-6 Rickey Barnes, Ian Poulter, Hunter Mahan
-5 Anthony Kim, YE Yang

Day 2 proved to be a much more difficult day to score at Augusta -- except for the UK golfers Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter. Westwood, who is still on the course, is 5-under for the day and 10-under for the tourney. Westwood just double-bogeyed 14 to fall back to -8 after dunking his ball into Rae's Creek -- the cut line changed dramatically now. Poulter is also 8-under for the tourney after shooting a pair of 68s. First round leader Fred Couples had a rough day, shooting a 75.

Leaderboard as of 5:15 p.m.

-8 Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter
-6 KJ Choi, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes
-5 Anthony Kim
-4 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, YE Yang
-3 Fred Couples, Soren Kjeldsen

Click here for full leaderboard

Just heard someone exuberantly say on The Golf Channel that this is the best leaderboard he's ever seen in his life. Whoa, settle down there Mr. Golf Channel commentator. We understand your excitement, but let's not get too carried away--just yet.

Don't get us wrong, we love this leaderboard!!

-6 Fred Couples
-5 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, YE Yang, KJ Choi
-4 Anthony Kim, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes
-3 David toms, Sandy Lyle, Trevor Immelman, Adam Scott, C. Shwartzel

Click here for video highlights of Round 1

But don't forget about 1986 when Jack Nicklaus made his famous Sunday charge. The leaderboard looked pretty amazing in the end:

-9 Jack Nicklaus
-8 Greg Norman, Tom Kite
-7 Seve Ballesteros
-6 Nick Price
-5 Tom Watson, Jay Haas, Tsuneyuki Nakajima
-4 Payne Stewart, Bob Tway
-3 Sandy Lyle, Corey Pavin, Mark McCumber, Donnie Hammond, Calvin Peete
-2 Bernard Langer, Larry Mize, Ben Crenshaw, Dave Barr, Gary Koch

Wow, who's responsible for this?

A couple weeks ago, Tom Watson predicted that Fred Couples would win the Masters, followed by Lee Westwood in second, and Tiger Woods in third. We doubted Watson's selection of Couples, but thought Westwood and Woods would contend.

Boy, were we wrong! Watson is looking like a soothsayer right now. Couples shot his lowest round ever at Augusta during the Masters. But what Tom Watson didn't say was that he, too, would be in contention. That's awesome, given what happened last year at the British Open.

Sandy Lyle at -3 is the biggest shocker.

We love this leaderboard!!

-6 Fred Couples
-5 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, YE Yang, KJ Choi
-4 Anthony Kim, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes
-3 David toms, Sandy Lyle, Trevor Immelman, Adam Scott, C. Shwartzel

Click here for video highlights of Round 1

Tiger Woods gets an A for his answers. But the male questioners get a D for their softball questions. Only the 3 female reporters get an A- for their tough questions (on Dr. Galea and PEDS, Elin's absence, and who in his management team knew of the other women). Tiger answered the PED question, but evaded the other 2 questions. The women reporters put Tiger on the defensive. He squirmed.


Click here for the live stream of Tiger Woods press conference


Top 3 Questions Tiger Woods should be asked today at 2 p.m.:

1. When did your agent Mark Steinberg first learn about Perkins waitress Mindy Lawton or any other woman with whom you had an affair? (Vanity Fair article says Steinberg helped make the deal with the National Enquirer to get the article on your affair killed, in exchange for you appearing on the cover of Men's Fitness, click here NSFW)

2. Did you have sex or meet with any of the women with whom you had an affair during the week of a golf tournament while you were at the tournament? (Ex porn star Joslyn James says she hooked up with Tiger at last years BMW Championship at Cog Hill, near Chicago). If so, did the amount of sex you were having ever have a positive or negative effect on your golf game, stamina, or concentration on the course?

3. Did you ever think you would get caught?

Wow! Vanity Fair is really going after Tiger Woods right before his 2 p.m. presser today.

Vanity Fair even has a nude Loredana Jolie Ferriolo (from the behind, not frontal). on its website (click here NSFW).