At TPC Sawgrass, it's imperative to keep the ball between the lines. So maybe that's why some crossed the line after the rounds were complete, or came darned close.
These are the best Tweets, tweaks and piques of the week that was -- and we'll let you handle the ranking in terms of favorites, because it's far too close to call.
"Johnny Miller is only giving me grief because he would have 4-putted the 17th green after a casual jog." Ian Poulter, after the NBC analyst questioned why Poulter so hurriedly played the 17th hole in order to beat the Saturday suspension of play at sundown
"He's in another category of woolly mammoth." Hunter Mahan on his scraggly beard, compared to that of Lucas Glover
"I have been swinging the club like an idiot." Sawgrass 54-hole leader Graeme McDowell, shortly before he blew his lead by shooting 79 in the final round
"I'm a professional athlete. Just kidding, America." Paul Goydos, when asked by NBC if fatigue set in on a busy Sunday
"The players playing today, you're playing for three times as much money as you would have if we'd still be under the umbrella of the PGA." Bob Goalby at the World Golf Hall of Fame induction, on the fateful split of the PGA Tour from its original parent organization, the PGA of America
"The ball doesn't know what I've got on my face." Lucas Glover, on the aforementioned beard
"Today, Glover said to me, 'the golf ball doesn't know ugly.' I'm not sure who he was talking about, probably me." World No. 9 Paul Casey, who played alongside Glover and eventually missed the cut
"I let go of the driver and said, 'Oh, crap ... what did I do?' It just bounced and flipped and went in. It was like slow motion. Luckily, a nice guy volunteered." Michael Bradley, after dropping his driver into snake and gator-infested lake, only to have it retrieved by a man in the gallery
"So it's all nonsense as far as I'm concerned, and I don't want to talk about it anymore." A terse PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, on Golf Channel allegations that Woods played last week because he was pressured by the tour to compete before he was physically ready
"Most frustrating year ever." Former world No. 3 Geoff Ogilvy, who missed a title defense and a month of play with a hand injury in January, after withdrawing last week with a nagging shoulder issue
"It's probably about the same as your heart rate in the Ryder Cup." Poulter after running from the 17th tee to the green, then to the 18th tee, in order to beat the suspension of play for darkness on Saturday night
"When I design golf courses, I try not to screw the player like that." Phil Mickelson on Pete Dye's design of the 13th hole at Sawgrass, where Lefty's ball rolled off the green and into a water hazard
"Wetter than most ... wetter than most." Golf Channel's Jason Sobel, after Tiger Woods hit two balls in the water on the fourth hole in the first round and made a triple bogey
"Nobody gives him that credit. He still is a good iron player. It’s just that other things aren’t working out quite as well.” Johnny Miller before the first round, when Woods ultimately had one of the most putrid nine-hole stretches of iron play of his career
"It's really sad to see what's going on with Tiger Woods on the range. This phenomenal athlete is now, in a sense, kind of an old man out there, going through moves like a 15-handicapper, moves that don’t come naturally." Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee, watching Woods on the pratice tee
"It's not that often he goes to the hip." Mark O'Meara on the upbeat mood of Woods before the tournament, when Woods picked up their meal tab
"I don't think it does." Phil Mickelson on how the absence of top-10 players Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy impacted the tournament
"Tiger's Achilles' heel is now his Achilles' heel. It used to be waitresses." Golfweek columnist Jeff Rude
"It's a gentleman's game." Mark Wilson, who added a shot to his score after believing he might have double-hit a chip shot, resulting in him ultimately missing the cut by a stroke
"That's a tough one to figure, really where he's at. He could have taken four or five Advil or something, sort of use no legs, and gut it out." NBC analyst Johnny Miller, questioning the withdrawal of Tiger Woods after nine holes
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