No one moves better than Woods on moving day. I could go on a severe weight program and I still wouldn't be able to hit it as far as he does. The faster it is the better the chances that he has. His latest addition to that haul came at the Memorial, where he was playing with a multi-layered Nike ball. Just weeks earlier, he switched from a wound ball, the Titleist Professional 90.
Some players can take a year to adjust to a new kind of ball.
Woods went out and finished third in a tournament in Germany in his first event after the switch and a week before the Memorial. Nike's balls have been widely disparaged, making his five-stroke win in the Memorial even more astounding. Imagine Kobe Bryant leading the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA title wearing 1970s-era Chuck Taylors and you start to get the picture. That kind of dominance of course makes Woods a heavy favorite at Pebble Beach. Tim Herron suggested that Tom Lehman might finally take the title after finishing in the top five for four straight years of heartbreak between 1995 and 1998.