Early Friday morning, the 30 greatest golfers in the game resumed play at historic East Lake Golf Club in the final playoff event of the FedEx Cup, the grand finale of the 2007 PGA Tour season. And the fans numbered in the....dozens. 

OK, that's not entirely fair. There were a couple of hundred people between the first tee and the driving range, but if the majors are golf's ultimate benchmarks, the galleries for this championship are puny at best. Twenty people gathered outside the locker room waiting for Tiger to emerge. At the Masters that number is at least a hundred, and at the British Open the Tiger mob can easily hit four digits. Organizers can't be blamed. In a pre-tournament press release, tournament officials boasted "that all tickets to the event, which is the culminating tournament to the first-ever PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup, are completely sold out. This marks the first sell-out since 2000 for The Tour Championship, and approximately 25,000 fans per day are expected at East Lake Golf Club." 

Take the under on that bet. In the world of corporate sporting events, ticket sales do not always translate into bodies on site. There are plenty of unused tickets sitting in desk drawers this morning, which is a shame. The golf is pretty good. The course looks fine; the rain last night made the rough thicker and gnarlier than normal, and the greens, which were soft and slow anyway, will hold anything north of a skulled 2-iron.

It should also be no surprise that a guy accustomed to sticky greens and wet conditions is leading early in the second round. Padraig Harrington is leading the European Order of Merit and won the British Open because he knows how to rap the ball hard on slow greens. "The golf course is set up for scoring in terms of you've got soft, slow greens that are at a pace where you can really be aggressive on them and run the ball at the hole," the Irishman and early second-round leader said. "You feel you can run putts in. The greens are great." 

Contrast that with Tiger, who said, "I made a couple of putts. I don't know how. I hit them up there and they bounced all over the place and somehow went in. The greens were...interesting." 

Too soon to call a winner, but you have to put Harrington ahead of Woods and the rest of the field in the attitude column.