"Bob Seger is bigger than Tiger."

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David Grant offers an entertaining account of Tiger's pro-am round with Bob Seger, who drew bigger ovations and just as many fans as the world No. 1.  Jo-Ann Barnas in the Detroit Free Press also reported on the round and posted other Buick blog items.

If you're a Seger fan like me, you'll enjoy his post round press conference. Nice move by the tour to bring him in, especially since he's not a fan of interviews.

Some highlights of the sloppy script:

Q. Did Tiger have a good sense of your career and who you are?

BOB SEGER: I gotta tell you this. This is funny. About five years ago I met Tiger -- he won't remember, but [H]Al Sutton took me to the Ryder Cup room. So I met everybody. Phil wasn't there. He was off doing something. But I met everybody on the team except for Phil, and Tiger goes up and I'm taking pictures with all the golfers' wives, all Furyk and [F]axon. Tiger is right here. And I see Tiger off in the corner he's talking to Chris, young Chris, and he says, "who's he?" He had no idea who I was. (Laughs). He was 25 at the time, 25, 26.

And...

Q. Can you talk about teeing off on the first tee?

BOB SEGER: Oh, my God.

Q. Can you talk about that?

BOB SEGER: I actually did -- that's right. I had a good swing on that tee, but yeah, nerves.
Oh, my gosh, through the first six holes I was a wreck. I don't know how I made those putts, but I did.

Q. You got a bigger cheer than Tiger there.

BOB SEGER: Oh, I've been here 40 years, you know. I got a few fans around here.
Yeah, but he's really special. To stand that close is so -- such a privilege, to someone that great.

And this is fun:

Q. Bob, two questions. Can you talk about just how the opportunity developed to play in the Pro-Am with Tiger?

BOB SEGER: My wife's -- one of my wife's best friends, her brother knows Larry Peck at GM, and they're old friends. And so last year, you know, I was set to do this, play with Tiger. And I was up watching the Open with my wife, and I said, oh, there's no way he's going to make it, with the knee. And of course, that was the story, him winning the Open.

I knew there was no way he was coming. I said, well, I had my chance, and I was practicing, too.

I was practicing like six days a week. Short game, short game, short game.