Rocco Is Wearing Red

As expected, Tiger Woods is wearing his customary Sunday red for today's U.S. Open playoff. But so is Rocco Mediate, sort of. Rocco has on a long sleeve red shirt with a black sweater vest on top. Game on.
Rocco's decision to wear red isn't exactly like the proposal I put forth a few years back, but it's still pretty good. Here's what I wrote after the Open in 2005:

Golf is the most civilized of games. Professional golfers keep score for their opponents, they never trash-talk and rarely do anything that could be possibly interpreted as distasteful while on the course.
Yet, golf is a game where intimidation is crucial. Playing the final round of the Masters takes a little over four hours, but of those four hours, only about two minutes are spent actually hitting the ball. For the rest of the time, a golfer is all alone with his thoughts. If he allows scoreboard watching, delusions of grandeur, the distance of his playing partners tee shot, the blonde with the fake boobs on the 13th hole or any other stray thought to enter his head, it would absolutely affect any golfer's play.
The great players can tune out most everything; but even Tiger Woods snaps when he hears the "click" of a camera shutter.
Speaking of Tiger; he's the most intimidating golfer of them all. When he steps to the tee in the final round of any tournament, the rest of the field takes notice.
Tiger's been beaten in the final round before and has had some lesser known players challenge him on Sundays, but on the whole nobody has gotten in Tiger's head... until now.
Here's my idea (if only I were a professional golfer):
If I were paired with Tiger in the final round of a major, I would wear a windbreaker to the first tee. For the sake of this discussion, let's say I'd tee-off second, but it really doesn't matter.
During the obligatory handshake and banter I would never look Tiger in the eye, instead focusing my eyes on some inanimate object in the background. Then, I'd go back to my bag and watch him tee-off. When our paths would cross as I moved toward the tee, I'd mutter "nice shot... bitch" almost inaudibly so that Tiger would have to ask himself what he really heard. By the time he figured out what I said, my driver would be out and I'd be placing my ball into the ground.
After taking a huge swing and watching my ball land safely in the fairway, I'd turn towards Tiger, stare at him for a split second, then remove my windbreaker to reveal a red Nike shirt. I'd then throw the windbreaker to the ground, yell "what?" at Tiger, in a way that would suggest Tiger better back the hell up before he gets smacked the hell up.
After this, I'd walk down the fairway at a brisk pace and never look at Tiger again the entire round.
Man, this would be sweet... and somebody should seriously do this. OK, maybe not the insults and the throw-down, but there's gotta be someone out there with enough stones to put on a red Nike shirt on Sunday at a major. Tiger wears that shirt to intimidate everyone else, why shouldn't he get a taste of his own medicine?
Not only would this mess with Tiger's head (no matter how Tiger reacted to the shirt, it would break his concentration for a split second and put a new thought in his head seconds before the final round of a major), but it would be a marketing coup and companies would be lining up to sign golf's "bad boy" (it's a relative term) to endorsement deals.
This is a million-dollar idea; maybe my best ever. Although I still think 24-Hour Fun Day is a winner too.

If you think it's an accident that Rocco wore red today, you're kidding yourself. I doubt he wore it to intimidate Tiger, but more as a sign that he himself will not cower in Tiger's presence.