First PGA Question: What On Earth Is Tiger Talking About?

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Oddly, there are no PGA transcripts for Rory and Tiger on ASAP as of midnight ET Here is the transcript but Brian Keogh has the Tiger Woods spin about trying too hard to enjoy himself Saturday instead of just being the snarling, Hoganesque, miserable, obscenity-dropping golfer that he was when he won 14 majors.

“I was just trying to be, you know, a little bit happy out there and enjoy it, and that’s  unfortunately that’s not how I play. You know how I am. I’m intense and I’m focused on what I’m doing and nothing else matters. I got back to that today and I hit some really good shots and I played the way that I know I can play.”

I'm going to take a stab here and propose that Tiger is either blaming:

(A) the media for suggesting he's not nice enough on the course

(B) Steiny for relaying a message from potential sponsors that they'd like to see him enjoying life on the links more before inking Tiger to a new deal

(C) Standing-before-the-blue-drapes-Tiger for predicting (at the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse, also available for your wedding or special occasion!) that he would become a new man on the course

(D) All of the above.

Sam Weinman dissects Tiger's post-round comment and Bob Harig of ESPN.com came to this conclusion:

Woods more or less admitted that he felt he was trying too hard in the previous two major championships this year where he had a chance to win. What he didn't admit -- but what could be surmised -- is that he is putting inordinate pressure on himself to close the deal in a major after what is now 18 majors (four of which he missed due to injury) without hoisting a trophy.

Here is the video of Tiger's comments, courtesy of Golf Channel.