<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">BRIARCLIFF MANOR ? Lining up his first official tee shot of the afternoon, Shaquille O'Neal waggled the club like a matchstick. He was dressed in a black polo, jean shorts, a backward black baseball hat and sneakers the size of pontoons, the ensemble of a man with no illusions about his golf game. "Just pretend it's a free throw," muttered the 7-footer to his right. Then a grin. "No pressure." O'Neal glared, yet apparently heeded Alonzo Mourning's advice anyway. He missed badly. No worries. Shaq smiled that big Shaq smile around his cigar, which he hadn't bothered to take out of his mouth, and all was happy again. Not everyone could laugh off a dribbler into the water while surrounded by people paying thousands of dollars just to tee off next to him. After shaking hands and snapping photos at Trump National's 13th hole, the first such foursome played through, three of them landing shots on the green. In came the next group, then another and another, until everyone got their money's worth. As long as they knew what to expect, that is. If people were there to compete with two of the NBA's greatest golfers, they'd have been better served inviting Michael Doleac and Jason Kapono, Shaq and Zo's Miami Heat teammates. Despite living adjacent to an Orlando, Fla., golf course, the Big Aristotle had never played a full round before yesterday. Mourning was only a little more familiar, though he looked the part in khakis and a golf cap. It's not easy for celebrated athletes to abandon pride and pick up a foreign instrument. The two NBA centers, brimming with goodwill after hoisting a championship trophy in June, picked up a couple 9-irons for Zo's Million Dollar Shoot-Out, a charity event benefiting youth centers in Miami and New Jersey. O'Neal is originally from Newark.</div> Source
