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Ask Rex: Q&A from Abu Dhabi (3:14)
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Senior writer Rex Hoggard tackles your GolfChannel.com, Twitter and Facebook questions at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
TRANSCRIPTS
-Well, we've had a lot of fun this week here
on golfchannel.com. Rex Hoggard and Steve Sands in Abu Dhabi.
And we brought back the trustee Blackberry to go through
Golf Channel's Facebook page and also via Twitter. Your e-mails
and your questions for the great senior writer in golfchannel.com,
Rex Hoggard. And this is actually a really, really good
one. Ryan Jacobson on our Facebook page wants to know
what is the strangest thing you have seen this week
in Abu Dhabi? -Robert Rock's hair. It never seems to
be out of place even when the wind blew on
Sunday. Now, probably the strangest thing that we ended up
seeing was just the finish. I mean, Tiger Woods was
such a lock going into final round with a lead
for him to not pull it out. It was a
little surprising to me. -How long will it take Tiger
to regain the number 1 player in the world status?
-You know what? I think he can do it by
the end of the year. A lot of things have
to fall into place and that big assumption goes with
the idea that Luke Donald is not going to play
as well as he had last year and the year
before. Those are 2 big ifs, but I think the
way Tiger is training right now-- I like his chances.
That came from Shawn Watson. Brad Hunter wants to know,
Rex. How does the crowd react to Tiger over in
Abu Dhabi? Are they supportive? -I think they were very
supportive throughout the week. It was interesting. You and I
both saw this week that the crowds are kinda peeked
to see him like on Saturday. That's their Sunday. It
could be because of their work week, but it was
great to see on Sunday that they were actually very
supportive of Robert Rock. I mean, no one was booing
Tiger Woods, but the cheers for Robert were pretty good
on the 18th green. -Time now. We'll be doing this
all week here on golfchannel.com. 3 things we learned today.
Number 1 would be-- -That Tiger Woods, I think, is
still in the rebound. I think he's still training in
the right direction as I said early, but he's not
the lock he used to be. I mean, the 54
holes, think about it. Before that PGA that Y.E. Yang
beat him, he had never lost the 54-hole league going
in the final round of a major. Now, he has
done it a couple of times over the last 2
years. He's not the lock he once was. -One thing
I learned today. You know, you have to fill up
your gas tank when you have a rental car before
you return it. -Company policy. Yeah, I know that. -That's
a company policy. -Uh-huh. -There's a lot of oil in
this country. I mean, a lot of oil in this
country. -Didn't see a gas station the entire week. -Not
one. -Could not find a gas station. I hope everybody
is okay back home in Orlando because we're gonna return
it empty before we go to the airport on Sunday
night. -Violate the company policy. -There's not a gas station.
Did you see one? -Not one. -Okay. We were in
the car everyday all week. -Not-- -[unk] our camera guy,
David. I'm telling you. -You're just trying to-- -Not one--
A mind-- Mind blowing that there wasn't a gas station
anywhere on Abu Dhabi. -You're just trying to make an
excuse so when the accountants come after you. I get
it. -I'm hoping that the bean counters over there on
the other side of the building are actually watching here
on golfchannel.com and realize that that is the note that
we're supposed to send back just in case we return
the rental car not filled. -Alright last thing-- -[unk] -Last
thing, their malls here are just like our malls back
home. -That's right. -You and I went to the food
court last night. There was a Popeye's. There was-- -Hold
on. That's a little bit of a stretch. We went
to go have a nice Italian meal. We ended walking
by a food court. -Well-- -We didn't go to a
food court to eat. -On the other side of the
food court, there was a Popeye's. There was a McDonald's.
There was a Dunkin' Donuts just like ours at home.
And the fries were-- -Phenomenal. -There you go. -We did.
We went pizza, mozzarella sticks and then we went McDonald's
french fries just to see if they tasted the same
and did they? -Absolutely. -They were. -Came all this way
just for McDonald's fries. -Why not? It's been a lot
of fun though. -Thanks man. -Alright. Here on golfchannel.com. Thanks
for joining us all week long. We're here in Abu
Dhabi.
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