Jack On Tiger: "It will take him seven or eight golf courses before he'll learn enough before he'll really be able to talk about it intelligently."

Considering the sheer volume of mediocrity produced by the Nicklaus design factory, Tiger Woods should be heartened by Jack Nicklaus's woefully condescending, ignorant and frankly embarrassing answer to Matty G's question:

Have you had the chance to talk design with Tiger?

No. I wouldn't think so. Tiger, at this point in time, wouldn't know anything about design.

Nothing at all, eh?  Sorry, continue digging:

He knows how to play golf and he knows what a golf course looks like. But it was no different than when I was his age and starting out -- I wouldn't know anything about design. If he decides to get involved he'll learn. He's a smart kid and it depends on how much he wants to get involved.

Kid?

He won't know how to do it, but he'll learn. It will take him seven or eight golf courses before he'll learn enough before he'll really be able to talk about it intelligently.

And just maybe reach the point he too can produce his own Dismal River!

In the same interview Nicklaus lauds the "great job" done in renovating Augusta National. Which is why it's a miracle I did not tune out prior to Matty G's most probing question: "What's the best way to cook a trout?"