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To: Bill who wrote (100452)	4/6/2005 7:12:52 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Tiger Woods has been a phenomenal golfer. My boss was in Scotland at the time he was playing there last year and happened to have his picture taken (he's lurking in the background, unidentified, holding a beer). He said, when Tiger hit the ball, about 1/3 of the way up in the air, he said, "Shoot it's going to be X yards short." Mind you their are air currents, club vibration and a bunch of other kinetic things going on. My argument is that he is graced with a different kind of processing, not numerical simulation software. I've read nothing about his background that he was off sneaking physics courses at night. But, with that said, it isn't a transferrable skill. Engineering and science are. Someone could write a program that would eventually correctly shoot golf balls from a cannon some distance away and with the appropriate environmental cues do it on a fixed course almost as well as Tiger. It might never be as good as Tiger on an arbitrary course, but, properly documented, one could build a million of them.