Great Toms rally doesn’t generate excitement

We find ourselves at a crossroads again, golf fans – at the corner of Trying-to-Care Boulevard and Increasingly-Irrelevant Way. On the same day a David Toms-Charlie Wi showdown at Colonial provided little national buzz, Tiger Woods fell out of the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time in 14 years.

It’s the chicken/egg question that we’ve been asking since trying to drum up interest in the Gary Woodlands, Mark Wilsons and Johnny Vegases of the golf world: Do you care about the sport because you love the sport, and thus were touched by Toms’ stirring comeback from his Players Championship heartbreak? Or do you see Tiger falling off the global scale of relevance – and your golf interest tumbling – like Ian Poulter down a hillside in Spain? (Odyssey white hot xg sabertooth)

These are the questions that keep me up at night, friend. Well, actually, that’s not true. It’s heartburn that keeps me up at night, but work with me here.

On one hand, Toms’ story is the stuff of goose bumps. You can picture the movie pitch in a studio office:

A fading champion who hasn’t won in a half-decade brushes with glory on a huge stage but finds nerves get the better of him, leading to crushing disappointment for his teenage son, who wants to believe Dad was once good at this game. One week later, after following a pair of 62s with a cringe-inducing 74, Dad reignites all the Is-Dad-Washed-Up? But Dad holes out for eagle on the back nine Sunday and triumphs by one shot with Odyssey white hot xg sabertooth at a storied golf course like Colonial Country Club, chokes up hugging his son on the 18th green, then says it took all his guts to win out there today with a break in his voice.

You can get Brad Pitt to slip on the red plaid jacket and play Odyssey white hot xg sabertooth (David Toms). Isn’t that how they do it in Hollywood? And there’s the rub. It’s all about star power in this sports world, right? The NBA is back because LeBron is a villain in Miami. The Yankees and Red Sox live on "Sunday Night Baseball" because of the history. Brett Favre spent an entire career riding a wave of TV obsession.

Can David Toms’ resurgence as captivating as it may be to the hardcore golf lunatic - sate that thirst? I have my doubts.

That said, count me as a hardcore golf lunatic, so much so that Toms immediately becomes a hot pick for next month’s U.S. Open at Congressional. He pounded fairways with numbing regularity, has one of the steadiest putters on the planet (save for that nervy thing at TPC in the playoff) and brings that "savvy veteran" vibe to a major championship.

The only question left to ask and it’s a biggie was: Can he win by Odyssey white hot xg sabertooth? Not only did Toms answer that with a Sunday 67, but he’s now an inch away from back-to-back wins on tour after not winning since 2006. Moreover, he became the first player since Phil Mickelson in 2000 to lose a playoff one week and win the next week.

So if Hollywood doesn’t want to make any big-budget productions until Tiger climbs back into the top 10, we hardcore golf lunatics will have to settle for off-Broadway productions like "The Redemption of David Toms." I’ll give it a rave review in the Village Voice, and we’ll see how many people come to opening night.

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