Do you believe it? Of course you do!

I watched the back nine on the big screen in the bar at Tilden Park golf course. I was alone at the beginning, but people gradually drifted in to join me, most of them golfers who had finished their rounds on that perfect Spring day.

As Tiger and O'Hair battled to the finish, we chatted amiably about what we were watching. Everyone expected Tiger to win, everyone expected him to make the crucial putts that he made, yet we were all transfixed. And when he fell back into a tie after bogeying the 17th from a horrendous lie in the bunker, a little doubt crept in, because once Tiger takes the lead on the back nine, he almost never gives it back (Exception: I was there when he gave it back to DiMarco at Augusta after making that unforgettable chip-in on #16, but of course he sank the relatively long putt in the playoff to win). Then when he similarly sank the relatively long putt on 18 to win yesterday, I said "Haven't we seen this movie before?"

We enjoyed it nonetheless. His ecstatic outburst, jumping into caddy Steve's arms, showed me that even he might have had some doubts he could come back that quickly from his long layoff and knee surgery.

Talented O'Hair needs a lesson from Tim Clark on how not to lose confidence playing against Tiger.