India’s Best Golfer – Jeev Milkha Singh

It is great to see an Indian golfer, Jeev Milkha Singh on top of the leader board at the end of the first day of the PGA Championship. The PGA Championship is one of the 4 major events. The others are The Masters, U.S. Open and the Open Championship.

Go Jeev!

Roger Federer: Supreme Dominance

In modern day sports, only Tiger Woods and Roger Federer have dominated their respective sports. In my humble opinion, Roger's dominance is even more remarkable as he has to be on top of his game whenever he plays Tiger can have a day or two off and still win the tournament by dominating the other days.

I have not seen any tennis player in as dominant as Federer. His opponents just hope of not getting embarrassed on the court when facing him. He seems to relish adverse situations on court when he gets into one of the occasional five setters. His dominance has been so compelling that he enjoys those occasional tough matches.

His comments after the recent five setter with Tipsarevic:

"It's not such a relief -- it's more happiness," Federer told the crowd at the Rod Laver Arena, where he has won three Australian titles including the last two. "I'm happy I could deliver a five-set thriller. It was good to be part of something like this."

He considers himself a performer/entertainer, entertaining us with his sublime tennis.

Lleyton Hewitt on Roger Federer's 5 setter:

"Obviously, an incredible day of tennis," Hewitt said, sounding hoarse and tired. "I mean, for Roger Federer to go five sets -- how often does that happen?"

Tiger's path to a Billion dollars

This article by Yahoo's Dan Wetzel caught my attention. He states that based on PGA's FedEx Cup - PGA version of year end play off tournament, Tiger would retire with a Billion dollars - yes, the one with the B.

FedEx Cup earnings are put in a retirement fund. If we go by the conservative assumption that Tiger would win 7 FedEx Cups over his career, he could end up with a retirement fund over a Billion dollars, as listed below.

Path to a billion
How Woods' retirement plan could possibly reach $1 billion, even if his production falls off, and he doesn't make the top 70 in some years.

Year	Assumed retirement fund compensation
2007	$123,100,000
2008	112,900,000
2010	95,000,000
2011	87,200,000
2013	73,100,000
2015	61,500,000
2017	51,800,000
Total	$604,600,000
Plus interest	114,700,000
Plus other plans	300,000,000
Total	$1,018,700,000

But the line that best summarizes Tiger's earning potential is the following:

"When it came to figuring out the plan, Tiger was the last person we thought about," said Joe Ogilvie, the tour pro who helped implement it. "For Tiger, $10 million is a rounding error."

Amen !