Tonight Show: Rory Talks About Tiger In The Past Tense

The whole Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon appearance must have been demeaning for Tiger Woods, not able to hit a ball on a national television show and having Rory McIlroy speak of you in the past tense.

The segment ended with hitting golf balls into glass after a short interview where Rory spoke of the old man in the tight black Jack LaLanne shirt:

I guess this little run that I'm on, it makes me appreciate what he's done in the past. I mean, just phenomenal to keep a run like this going and he's done way more than me. It makes you appreciate how hard he worked and what a dominant figure he was in our game.

I only suggest watching the "Facebreakers" game if you have positively nothing else to do today.

In a separate interview with Sky Sports News transcribed by Brian Keogh, Woods talked about getting back the explosiveness and referred to his "fall" at the WGC Bridgestone.

"I've got to be physically fit when I come back so I'll be explosive again and stable," he said.

"Obviously this year was frustrating in that I didn't really feel that I gave myself much of a chance. I first had that pain in my back and it would go away, and then it would come back, go away, come back, until eventually it never went away...It got fixed, but I took that fall on number two at the (WGC-Bridgestone Invitational) and I hadn't done any agility training yet so my hip got misaligned and everything went into spasm again.

"We got that all calmed down again but then I had to play. Now I need to keep it calm, then strengthen it and then I'll be back. That's one of the reasons I've shut it down. I'll come back in December and be ready for next year."