Winning Entry

Golf Digest, NBC Sports, and the United States Golf Association are sponsoring a doozy of a contest.

Last year, at the US Open at Oakmont, Tiger Woods famously commented that with the way the course was set up for the second round, "a 10-handicapper wouldn't break 100." Thus, the magazine and the network mentioned above are giving us a chance to prove him wrong.

The "winner," if you can call it that, will play 18 holes at Torrey Pines in San Diego with three celebrities in the days leading up to the 2008 US Open -- in other words, a round on an Open course, under Open conditions. The whole thing will be videotaped and shown during Sunday's final round.

The hook? You have to write a 100-word entry explaining why you should win. Right in my wheelhouse.

Here's my entry:

"Why me?

I've interviewed Bobby Knight. I've run the Boston Marathon. I've climbed the Eiffel Tower. I've watched the Indy 500 from the infield. I've been to the Artichoke Capital of the World, the Indoor Foliage Capital of the World, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. I've placed my children onto the back of a live alligator. I've caught a lemon shark and body-surfed with dolphins. I've ridden a cafeteria tray down Libe Slope at Cornell University. I've seen Springsteen live. Once, I met Shania Twain in a bar.

But I've never played in Open conditions. And I'll break 100, dammit."

Should we go ahead and engrave the trophy now?

If you'd like to beat it, here's the link. Good luck. See you on the first tee.