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    • Rory McIlroy gets presentable.Sometimes being a multimillionaire globetrotting twentysomething golfer with a famous girlfriend has its advantages.

      Like Wednesday, for instance, when Rory McIlroy visits the White House, nine months after his big U.S. Open win at Congressional. This shot was posted on his Facebook page as he cleans up and gets himself presentable.

      As GolfTalkCentral notes, McIlroy won't play in any tournaments until that little get-together at a small town in east Georgia three weeks from now. Perhaps he can take the 17-handicap President Obama out for a turn or two on the links.

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    • Let's close off the last of this past weekend with some of Doral's best shots. Tiger Woods is in here, as is Rory McIlroy and a few other folks. Enjoy, and then get back out there and practice so you can play like this too.

    • The new Tiger Woods video game hits in a couple weeks, and here's part of the ad blitz: a chop-socky-stylized video featuring Woods and Shaquille O'Neal, who looks a LOT bigger in real life than his video-game avatar. Watching this, I'm thinking we can see the origins of Woods' latest leg injury.

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      It's time for the Devil Ball Power Rankings, our weekly look at who's up and who's down in the world of golf. Your panelists are an esteemed group of the world's greatest golf journalists ... or so our mothers tell us. Devil Ball Golf's Jay Busbee and Jonathan Wall, CBS Sports/Eye on Golf's Shane Bacon, and Golf Channel/Golf Talk Central's Ryan Ballengee bring you these, our rankings. Enjoy.

      1. Rory McIlroy (4 first-place votes): Not a whole lot of doubt about RoMac's status here at the top of the charts. Really, the only question is, how long will he stay here?

      2. Justin Rose: Here's a big difference between power rankings that track your current performance and the two-years-gone Official World Golf Rankings. Rose put a bow on a fine tournament at the WGC-Cadillac, and here he is.

      T3. Lee Westwood: We're coming around to the key part of the season for Mr. Westwood, the time when he has to actually step up and play big tournaments against real competition.

      T3. Luke Donald: A bit of a

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    • Tiger Woods. Not pictured: Al Cowlings. (NBC Sports)

      Welcome to the new season of Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Jonathan Wall take a day's topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by writing jay.busbee@yahoo.com, or hit us on Twitter at @jaybusbee and @jonathanrwall. Today we touch the third rail of golf media: is Tiger Woods -- gasp -- overexposed?

      Busbee: So Tiger Woods withdrew from the WGC Sunday, taking a cart from the 12th at Doral right to his car. And from there, things got weird: a full-fledged OJ Simpson-style low-speed blimp chase. Here's my question: when is enough, enough? I know that we're as guilty as anyone of hyping Tiger to the skies, but when we're now viewing his departure from those same skies, at the expense of other players' shots, has Woods mania gone too far?

      Wall: Wait, so you're telling me the blimp following Tiger Woods around at Doral wasn't part of the weekly coverage? And here I thought tracking the guy's every move was part of the plan. Honestly, nothing surprises me anymore when it come to Mr. Woods. Following the hydrant mishap in 2009, it seems like the entire world has a bead on him, so the fact that a blimp decided to follow him to his car and out of the parking lot doesn't shock me. Heck, I'm still waiting for Perkins to sponsor a blimp that does nothing but sit over Tiger's house and track his every move. I feel like we do that already. This is what happens when you're the most talked about golfer on the planet, right?

      [Related: Tiger confirms mild Achilles strain, will resume practice this week]

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    • Tiger Woods / Getty Images

      After wondering what Tiger Woods' status would be for the Masters, the 14-time major winner confirmed on Monday evening via Twitter that he should be good to go for the first major of the year.

      "Got good news from doc tonight. Only mild strain of left Achilles. Can resume hitting balls late in week and hopeful for next week," Woods tweeted.

      Based on the way Woods exited Doral -- limping to his car and having a couple of ice packs delivered to the driver's side window before he left -- you had to wonder how severe the injury really was.

      After withdrawing from the event, Woods confirmed when he left the course, that he "had tightness in the left Achilles warming up and it got progressively worse as the round went on." While it was unclear at the time, Woods' announcement that it's only a mild strain is definitely a best-case scenario at this point.

      [Teeing Off: Have we hit Tiger Woods overload?]

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    • Sizing up the TV coverage from the WGC-Cadillac Championship ... and away we go.

      NBC has apparently found a new use for the MetLife blimp, after the network took advantage of the aerials shots and tracked Tiger Woods' every move following his WD from the Cadillac Championship.

      We've seen some bizarre shots from the golf course over the years, but this ranked right up near the top. After NBC got word of Woods' decision to pull out of the tournament, after 11 holes, the blimp immediately started following Woods as he drove in a golf cart to his car.

      No big deal, right? The problem was the overhead coverage didn't stop there. Trying to give viewers at home as much Tiger coverage as possible, the blimp continued to track Woods as he received ice packs through the window of his Mercedes, to the moment his car left the parking lot ... and started down the freeway.

      "The MetLife blimp has got it covered," NBC's Dan Hicks said, as the blimp continued to track the car as it whizzed past other motorists. "Right above Tiger as he drives away.  ... But we still don't know the extent of the injury."

      What made the moment even more incredible was that we almost got the quote of the year from NBC analyst Peter Jacobsen. After returning from a commercial break, Jacobsen could be heard saying that Tiger "better not pull into a puh..." before cutting himself off right before he finished the sentence.

      Now, we don't like to make assumptions around here, but that "puh" sounded like he was about to say "a Perkins," but that would have been too perfect, right? I'm sure it was the "Pub"restaurant in Miami. Yeah, that's it.

      Regardless, I guess we found out the blimp has a place at tournaments after all.

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      Let's be honest, we're all incredibly busy. Nobody has time to sit down and watch four rounds of golf coverage -- unless, of course, you watch TV for a living, and if that's the case, please email us your number. So in an effort to condense the tournament coverage for you into a few quick hits, here are five things we learned from the WGC-Cadillac Championship.

      Justin Rose doesn't get the respect he deserves — Hard as it is to believe, Justin Rose is still one of the most underrated players in golf after his win at Doral. I'm serious. If you go down the list of big names in a field, most tend to overlook Rose. He's not flashy and doesn't hit the ball a country mile, but he sure does know how to close the deal against big-time fields. His win at the WGC-Cadillac Championship was his fourth victory in 10 months, which is downright impressive. Not only that, all four came against stout fields: Memorial, AT&T National, BMW Championship, and the WGC-Cadillac Championship. If you're keeping track at home, that's two high-profile tour events, a FedEx Cup event, and a World Golf Championship. Not bad, right? I know most will continue to overlook Rose for some of the household names on tour, but after Sunday's win, we should really start giving the Englishman the respect he deserves.

      Tiger Woods' Achilles tendon is a question mark once again — Here we go again. Just after Tiger Woods told the assembled media at Doral his "body" felt great, he showed up on Sunday, hit a couple balls on the range and felt some tightness in his left Achilles tendon ... the very same one that gave him problems in the past. Woods fought through the pain for 11 holes before he hit his tee shot on the 12th, grimaced in pain and withdrew from the tournament. After finally feeling like we were past the questions about Woods' health, we could be on verge of going back to square one. Woods is supposed to get the leg checked out early in the week but the way he was limping around, you have to wonder if he's going to 1) Be ready in a couple of weeks to play his final Masters tuneup at Bay Hill, and 2) If he's going to be healthy enough to contend at the Masters. We'll find out, but for the moment, Woods' health is back to being a giant question mark again.

      Sergio Garcia is still a headcase on the golf course — With the exception of maybe John Daly, nobody in golf has the ability to self destruct like Sergio Garcia. This week was just another example after he shot 5-under 31 on the front nine on Thursday, only to bogey six of his final nine holes ... and triple-bogey the 18th to fire a back nine 44. He followed up the forgettable first round with a 12 on the par-4 third hole on Sunday, knocking four balls in the water and wiping out the eagle he had on the opening hole. Just another typical week for Mr. Garcia.

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    • At the Blue Monster at Doral, Bubba Watson came in like a lion and went out like ... well, not like a lamb, but maybe like a limping lion. Whatever. Justin Rose played spectacularly well and managed to hold on for the win. Rory McIlroy threw a scare into the field, but wasn't quite close enough to close. And Tiger Woods? Well, he got the full OJ treatment as he left the course. All in all, golf is starting to round into major form. Augusta is on the horizon, everybody!

    • Rory McIlroy / Getty ImagesFor about 12 holes on Sunday afternoon it appeared the stage was set for Rory McIlroy to make an improbable final round comeback at the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral.

      After holing out from the bunker on the par-5 12th hole for eagle, McIlroy was only one back of the leaders with six holes to play. For a guy who appeared to be running on empty on Thursday and Friday, it suddenly looked like the No. 1 ranked player in the world was going to do something incredibly special.

      But in the blink of an eye, the magic disappeared, as McIlroy played the last six holes in 1-over and watched his comeback bid come up two shots short in his final tuneup before the Masters.

      [Related: Tiger Woods withdraws from Doral after 11 holes, cites left Achilles tendon soreness]

      While some might question his inability to capitalize on the lack of success the leaders were having behind him as he hit the closing stretch, you have to remember that going into Sunday's final round, McIlroy only had an outside shot to win the tournament.

      He was a full eight shots back of Bubba Watson,  so the fact that he was able to put together another impressive round on Sunday — his 7-under 65 on Saturday was the second lowest round of the day — and claw his way back into the tournament told us everything we needed to know about his game at the moment: He's ready for Augusta.

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