Questions and answers from the 69th Masters, where Tiger Woods held off Chris DiMarco on Sunday at Augusta National to win his fourth green jacket:

Question: Is Tiger Woods’ game back to the level where he could win the Grand Slam?

Answer: No, but you never know, he’s Tiger. Two bogeys on his final two holes tell us this is not the same Woods who captured the calendar Grand Slam in 2000-01. But winning the Grand Slam is such a long shot any way that all it would take is a couple more once-in-a-lifetime shots like Sunday’s chip-in birdie at the 16th for the improbable.

Here’s what Woods has going for him: the U.S. Open is at Pinehurst No. 2, where he tied for third in 1999; the British Open is at St. Andrews, where he won by eight shots and completed the career Grand Slam in 2000; and the PGA Championship is at Baltusrol, the longest of this year’s major championships at a behemoth 7,376 yards. And, hey, you can’t win them all unless you win the first one.

Q: Why doesn’t CBS/USA show the entire Masters like NBC/USA does with the U.S. Open, and ABC/ESPN does with the British Open?

A:(endbf) Because it’s the Masters, and its television ratings had been declining for the past two years before they shot back up to 10.3 on Sunday, a 41 percent increase. The theory: less coverage results in more interest. Besides, nobody tells Hootie Johnson what to do.

Unfortunately, most of the country was either sleeping, just setting down to breakfast or going to church when Woods said, “Amen,’’ as in Amen Corner, where he completed a record-tying run of seven straight birdies at the 13th hole at precisely 8:37 a.m. (East Coast time). The tape-delays didn’t do it justice, and USA doesn’t have weekend rights.

Q: Is everything cool between Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh following “Spikegate,’’ where Vij accused Lefty of trashing the greens with metal spikes.

A: Hardly. Mickelson initiated the handshake to start Sunday’s final round, and Singh apparently played along. But you don’t tell a player you have no respect for him, and challenge him to go outside, as Singh reportedly did, and then become bosom buddies.

What was weird was, in the final analysis Mickelson accused reporters of hyping the incident. “We had a great time,’’ he said of the Sunday pairing with Singh. “We laughed, we giggled. It was a fun day. I don’t know where you guys (the media) come up with this stuff. You guys are unbelievable.’’

Was he kidding? It was Mickelson’s camp who issued the statements that Singh “distracted’’ him and he “confronted’’ Singh in the locker room.

Q: What happened to Ernie Els, who was among the pretournament favorites?

A: Els was on his way to a tie for 47th, his worst performance in the Masters since 1995, when he missed the cut. Apparently the Big Easy couldn’t putt, as he three-jacked five times en route to 121 shots on the greens. And there was speculation Els had a high fever and was battling a cold, even though he denied it.

“Game wasn’t there,’’ he said through a scratchy voice. “That’s it; move on. I don’t want to make any excuses.’’ Nicely done, Ernie.

Q: Where was Martha Burke, and has she thrown in the towel in her battle to break down the all-male membership barrier at Augusta National?

A: Not exactly, even if the executive director of the National Council of Women’s Organizations only got to fire her latest volley at Hootie from long range. In a stinging commentary in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times, she referred to the membership at Augusta National as the “Green Jacket Klan,’’ and added: “But it’s apparently too much to ask Vijay Singh, who wears his sexism like a talisman, or Phil Mickelson, whose two daughters are mere props for his public relations machine, to take a principled stand.’’