Killer Instinct

"I've done four in a row before," he said. "It'd be great to do it in one year, just 'cause it'd be something different."

It's like an astronaut yawning, Yeah, I'd like to walk on Mars. Hey, it'd be different, right?

But this guy is different. This guy is like nothing golf has ever seen. And as he grows ever more murderous on the inside, he grows more generous on the outside. After his round, for instance, adorned in sweaty clothes and that hideous green garment, Woods thanked the crowd repeatedly. "I worked my butt off this week," he said to the fans as he stood on the practice putting green. "And to walk up 18 and hear that applause, well, it was a nice little reward."

Two hours later he came out of a cabin on the Augusta National grounds showered, $1,008,000 richer, escorting the drop-dead Nordegren on his left and holding a cold Budweiser in his right. O.K., so maybe a guy deserves more than one nice little reward, right?