"I Hear You're Looking for a Caddie. I'm Tiger Woods."

With those words, Tiger Woods put on his green caddie bib and went to work for John Abel at Torrey Pines on Monday. Abel, age 59, was the winner of the "Tee Off with Tiger" sweepstakes sponsored by Buick, and having Woods caddie for him at Torrey Pines was the prize.

And what a grand prize that is, eh?

The article about Abel's day has some good stuff. Abel came away impressed by "how much of a down-to-earth guy (Woods) really is."

As for Tiger, he showed no signs of the reconstructive knee surgery he underwent earlier this year; while he drove Abel's cart, Woods did get out, walk the greens, kneel to read putts and so on. The article concludes with an update on Tiger's status and timetable:

"I'm able to chip and putt now. I can start doing some more fuller rotational things toward the beginning of next year," he said. "I can walk and do all this stuff. This is easy. But rotational stuff is going to be a little different."

Woods would love to be back at Torrey Pines in early February to defend his title at the Buick Invitational, where he has won four straight and six overall. But he’s not sure if it's realistic.

"That's the most frustrating thing for me, because I don’t know," Woods said. "I like having things planned out. I like understanding what I need to shoot for, but I don’t know. And the surgeons don’t know, either, because they’ve never dealt with an injury like this for a person who plays golf at an elite level. For an amateur, it’s no big deal, just come back nine months from now or 10 months from now. But for me, I don’t know what the schedule’s going to be."

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