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He also narrowly missed a birdie putt at the par-three fifth, where the distractions of a cackle of gunfire from an automatic weapon and a bugle salute from an adjoining army base brought a smile to his face.

- NYT article talking about Tiger Wood’s play during the final round of the HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

Tiger finished 2nd to Yang Yong-eun from Korea.

I don’t recall automatic gunfire ever being mentioned as a distraction at a U.S. PGA tour event. Welcome to China!

Shanghai, and many cities in China, have an enormous amount of contruction work going on. Right next to where I live a 10 story building has just gone up in the past month. Related to this (or maybe not) someone has decided to re-do the entire road in the back of my complex. Construction, sometimes, goes very fast here because they work around the clock. On the other hand it means at 8:30pm on a Sunday night you have construction workers putting down a new road just outside where you live. Fortunately they are not too noisy tonight, but I hope they keep this pace up and get whatever they are doing done ASAP.

Since I had a pass that covered the whole weekend, I went out again to the gof tournament this morning. I wanted to see the pros on the range and, once again, there was Tiger.

Just so you don’t think I am some big Tiger fan, I did also take a picture of Jim Furyk.

The weather was just about perfect for golf. Unfortunately Tiger wasn’t looking too sharp when I saw him on the front nine. My money is on Retief Goosen.