One morning, Tiger Woods goes to his usual golf course to play a morning round of 18 and notices a black bear approaching him from the woods off the first tee. Alarmed, Tiger starts to retreat when the bear casually asks Tiger what he's doing. Having never spoken to a black bear before, Tiger was a little hesitant at first but upon realizing that the bear was not a threat he tries his best to explain the game of golf to this black bear. After learning that it is a game played competitively, the bear asks to be shown how to play and wants to place a friendly wager that he could beat Tiger. Confident in his abilities to beat a rookie golfer, let alone a black bear, Tiger agrees to a one hole playoff over a piece of Fruit Stripe gum. Tiger goes first and snacks a line drive straight down the middle of the fairway. The black bear then grabs a club but as he approaches the tee box he freezes, turns to Tiger and asks, "What do I do now?" Wanting to be fair, Tiger points to a tree off in the distance saying "See that tree over there, hit the ball just to the left of that on the short green grass." The bear then tees off and hits an incredibly accurate shot, landing within 5 yards of the area Tiger had told him to aim. When the bear goes to hit his second shot, he again asks what to do, to which Tiger responds by pointing to a pond separating the fairway from the green and tells the bear to land it just short of the water. Miraculously the black bear does the impossible a second time. Astonished, but still focused on winning the wager, Tiger hits an equally exceptional shot to land just ahead of the black bears second shot. Once more, the bear has to ask what the next step of the game is to which Tiger replies, "Ahh yes, you see the flag on the green over there? The object of the game is to get the ball into that small cup in the fewest number of shots."
The black bear, furious at this point, replies, "WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST TELL ME THAT ON THE FIRST STROKE!"
