COMMENTARY : 2008 shaping up as the year of the Tiger

Officially, this could be the year Tiger Woods writes golf history by winning the Grand Slam.

Don't bore me with the odds against Woods actually doing it. I know about them. But I have also seen the light and the truth and the way — and it's Woods with a golf club in his hands.

Have you seen the way the man has started 2008 ?

How about a never-was-even-close eight-shot victory two weeks ago at the Buick Invitational in San Diego, his first tournament of the year ? How about his victory Sunday at the Dubai Desert Classic, where he shot a 65 in the final round to come from four shots back ?

That makes for five victories in his past five tournaments, including the PGA Championship — where he won his 13 th major title — and the Tour Championship at the end of last year.

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Legally blind golfer, 92, shoots a hole-in-one, ducks attention

Leo Fiyalko would just as soon get on with life.

So he made a hole-in-one on the 110-yard, par-3 fifth hole at Cove Cay Country Club in Clearwater.

So what if it was the 92-year-old's first hole-in-one in more than 60 years of playing golf?

Big deal.

And who cares if he is legally blind, with a condition called macular degeneration?

Fiyalko doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.

"It was my first hole-in-one, and I never saw it," Fiyalko said. "I was just trying to put the ball on the green."

That's about all he'll say on the subject. But that didn't stop his friends in the Twilighters Club golf group from presenting him with a plaque on Jan. 24 commemorating the feat. There is a picture on the plaque of the fifth hole and a line that reads: "Leo Fiyalko, hole-in-one, five iron, 110 yards."

The feat came on Jan.

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