Do you understand the magnitude of it?

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"What he's doing right now, I mean, you can't even hardly fathom it," Bart Bryant said after becoming the closest human to Woods in stroke-play this year. "You can't explain it. It's just incredible. I think true golf fans who understand the game, understand the magnitude of it. I think the golf public in general doesn't get it, to be honest."

Amazing as it sounds, Bryant may be understating things. Tiger has a combination we have never seen before: he physically beats opponents with great shots like Sunday, but he has also pulled the Jedi mind trick, beating them down mentally. His domination is more complete than Jordan's ever was. Bryant's reaction to Tiger's winning putt on Sunday was to shrug and laugh as if he knew it was coming. Truly at this point, it is bigger news if Tiger loses than if he wins; think about that in an individual sport. And what is equally amazing, people love watching him win even if he has a huge lead. Where else does that happen? If he wins his next tournament, the buildup to the Masters and the TV ratings for it will be the highest ever. And they will only go higher if he dominates. It's a strange phenomenon, but Tiger has taken us to a whole new universe.