Tiger Woods faded terribly today at Pebble Beach. I didn’t cover the final round — in fact, I watched it on TV at home. But this is what I saw.

Woods can make the shots. Woods is a good player. Woods has lost his confidence. It is strange to write he’s lost his confidence when he used to be the most confident athlete alive. But he could not stand up to the pressure of the final round today and he sure could not stand up to Phil Mickelson.

Woods said his putts were not going in. He doesn’t understand. They didn’t go in because he didn’t know how to make them go in when everything depended on it. You could almost say he choked.

CBS showed many shots of Mickelson’s wife Amy cheering for him and of Mickelson hugging his caddie. The message was clear. Mickelson appears to have a stable home life and a stable relationship with his caddie. Woods had a horrendous home life and he tends to dump caddies. CBS was saying stability promotes good gulf, therefore Mickelson buried Woods. I don’t know if that line of reasoning is correct, but it is something to think about.