Al Michaels

He spent eight hours on the golf course, not during the week, Tony, but, you know, like two weeks leading into the open, so that he could shift from every single quadrant and putt, you know, to every single hole location.

Very painstaking, and that's, you know, that's the way to prepare.

You can't do that during the week of an open.

It'll shut the course down, and it frankly gets, you know, shut down not too bad yesterday, but shut down now.

It's three and a half hours to get through nine holes.

No fun, and it's draining.

Well, that was the best.

Yeah, tell us.

I think that was in 02.

And it was 02.

Tiger's defending champion comes out of the clubhouse.

And Steve Williams is waiting for him on the tee box.

They've got this old-fashioned wooden clock.

And it says, course opens at 8 o'clock.

Little hand on the 8, big hand on the 12.

And Steve reaches over with his finger, and he moves it down to 730.

Tiger shows up.

about 728 and takes the big hand and moves it two more to the left, two more to the right to make it 28, fires off, and there he goes.

It's Tiger.

Tiger time.