Thus spoke Tiger Woods on the weekend after shooting a 6 over-par 77 in the final round to finish dead last (of the players who made the cut) at the Riviera Invitational.

Golf . . . when it's not your day you can really count on golf to let you know.

That Tiger Woods - a supremely gifted natural athlete who has dedicated his life to the craft - finds himself still very much at the mercy of the whims of the golfing Gods . . . what hope have the rest of us got?

It's a troublesome thought.

Fellow sufferers, I'll see you out there on Saturday...

Still, Woods' disaster was Australia's triumph with Adam Scott - he of the notoriously shaky putter and, at the time, approaching four years without a victory on the PGA tour - finding the form required to win the tournament.

Scott held on with a 1 under par 70 in the final round to win by two shots over current world number one, Rory McIlroy.

This ending of Scott's 'slump' brings him to seventh place in the world ranking and takes his career prize money to well in excess of $100 million.

That, for the time being, should keep the wolves from his door.

The NRL is all apologies after the awarding of that absurd try to St George in the final play of their quarter-final match against Penrith in the Nines on Saturday.

It was a joke.

Everybody in the stadium could see (a couple of spectators would presumably have had to get their feet out of the way) that the ball grounded by Dragons' winger Cody Ramsey was not even close to being in the field of play.

We're not talking 'on the line' here. We're talking well and truly across it.

It would seem the only people who couldn't see it were the people paid to do so - the three officials.

It was an astounding error which raises all the usual questions about the pros and cons of the various possible 'bunker' style arrangements.

For somebody like me, who more usually tends to think that all this bunker stuff is more trouble than it's worth, the try is problematic.

What's particularly frustrating is the inability within the system for the application of a bit of common-sense type fairness.

Within seconds of the 'try' being awarded the replay was shown on the big screen, meaning that now literally everybody there - both sides, spectators and even the refs - now knew that that was not even close to being a try.

What would be so hard about the ref going, 'hang on, we can't have that, that's ridiculous,' and awarding the game to Penrith?

Who could possibly complain?

Or maybe it doesn't matter.

Maybe the game has veered so far towards the entertainment end of things that sporting fairness isn't really important anymore.

Are we heading, eventually, for a wrestling type situation where everybody knows it's not fair dinkum but watch for the spectacle?

I hope not.

The other thing is - can the NRL continue to get away with this type of thing?

Penrith estimates that that 'try' cost their club somewhere in the vicinity of half a million dollars.

Have they no avenue for recourse? In a society as litigious as ours surely such challenges cannot be far off.

And then there's the punters. What about the bloke who's had a funky combination bet on Adam Scott to win the Riviera and the Panthers to win the Nines? You can't imagine that he'd be too pleased.

How many disgruntled versions of this guy are there out there, knowing that they've been robbed? Where does that lead? There's big bucks involved here.

If they can reverse the result of the Melbourne Cup then sorting out such a glaring error in the

Nines shouldn't be this big a problem.