Johnny On Tiger: "It would still take a small miracle for him to win the U.S. Open right now."

Thanks to John Strege for catching Johnny Miller's suggestion that it would take a "small miracle" for Tiger to win the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Imagine if he'd uttered that a year ago? They would have carted him off in the David Leadbetter swing apparatus (yeah, I owned one).

Johnny, talking to the New York Post's Justin Terranova:

"It would still take a small miracle for him to win the U.S. Open right now. He's struggling with the driver and hitting half the fairways is not going to get it done. But Tiger has some awful good feeling about the Open there and what happened last time (winning by 15 strokes). But he's a whole different cat now. His game's not too sharp.

"A lot of golfers get burned out around his age -- it happened with Jack, it happened with me. Tiger will have a second career, but personally I think his best golf has definitely been played. He can have a second career that is as good as Phil's career, which is still pretty terrific, but that's the best-case scenario. I just think he has a lot of scar tissue from a lot of things now."