The hole in Tiger’s resume, why is Ces playing and throwing a flag on NFL’s anthem policy ...

Part of the narrative on Sunday at

Carnoustie is this: If Tiger comes from behind to win his first major in a decade, it will be the first time he’s ever come from behind on Sunday to win a major.

Still a hole in his resume through which you could drive a golf cart.

When Jordan Spieth is back to making everything he looks at, he makes you think he could win ten majors before he’s through. Ten or more. We still talk about how Phil Mickelson is the most fun to watch. Spieth is more fun to watch now. Somehow it is four years since Rory McIlroy won his fourth major. Eventually the National Football League will have to come up with an anthem policy that doesn’t read and sound as if it was composed on a cocktail napkin.

If Yoenis Cespedes has it right, and surgery on both his heels will change everything for him — and that he will need eight to ten months to recover — then there is no reason for him to keep playing now. None. Say it again: Sometimes you sign a guy for all the right reasons and everything turns out as wrong as it has with Cespedes. And say this again, too: There was a time when they signed David Wright, for big money, for all the right reasons. How did that work out at Citi Field?

NBC’s Justin Leonard (who is really good) on Phil Mickelson Saturday: “He might be the best to ever play out of the rough, mostly because he’s spent so much time there.” Considering his options, Gregg Popovich did better than I ever thought he would in the Kawhi Leonard deal. Maybe this will be the season when Leonard worries more about where he’s playing now, as opposed to where he wants to play next. No kidding, sometimes I can actually see my television screen growing when they want to get Tiger’s name at least to the bottom of the leaderboard. The math on Novak Djokovic isn’t just that he now has 13 majors, and has a chance to start a great second act if he can stay healthy. Maybe the more important math is that he just turned 31 in March, which makes him a year younger than Rafael Nadal and a lot younger than Roger Federer. I honestly did think, watching the All-Star Game last Tuesday night, that Bryce Harper’s dad was pitching for both teams.

The most fun thing about watching the British Open on television is seeing the best players in the world — and some you’ve never heard of — having to hit shots from places that remind you of the battlefields in “Braveheart.” By the way? Those last four holes at Carnoustie seem to have everything except guard dogs.

There’s no “i” in team, everybody

knows that. But there is one in “Michael Cohen.” Putin good. NFL players bad. Got it.