MELBOURNE, Australia -- As he played the Royal Melbourne course again on Sunday, leading his U.S. Presidents Cup team to victory first as a player before settling in his captain's role, it was difficult not to yearn for a circumstance in which Woods could play this Sandbelt gem in a stroke-play tournament.
So on form was Woods through the three matches he played in Australia that was yet another reminder of his golfing genius, his ability to think and plot and imagine his way around one of the game's great layouts, a course far more about brains than brawn.