Mar
25
Maybe Tiger Woods is indeed the greatest golfer ever to breathe air on earth, but he doesn’t exactly take your breath away with stirring, dramatic finishes, does he?
Unless he’s trying to let someone else in the back door because of his own fear. I mean, seriously, he never really knows where his driver will take him, does he?
Woods laid up on No. 18 twice on Sunday – twice! – on a par-4 – a par-4! – to win the CA Championships at Doral.
If Woods is out playing with his buddies, he gets called every girlie insult in golf for doing that – just as 95 percent of the male golfing population would.
I wonder if his wife, Elin, would have laid up. Probably.
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Jason Scott Deegan:
The Accidental Golfer:
Katharine Dyson:
Kiel Christianson:
First, there is the Master's up ahead and Tiger is trying to get over his current state of negativity so a win would be a good bounce.
Second, the biological clock is ticking. He knows about the history of golf and watching upcoming players, so each tournament is not a chance to win but an imperative to write his own legacy. (You know that's always been his main drive(r).)
Third, and lastly, he is smart. If he can think rationaly enough to win by playing conservatively or freely whatever the case dictates, dang if he is going to give you any freebies. He's still "The Man" and you just better hope you're three strokes ahead and have the option of choosing to layup. Him called a "girlie?" Hmmm... makes everyone else look like they took up the wrong sport. Hmmm... they are soooo trying to exercise, diet, study, and practice to be like him! Hmmm... his friends are probably just dying to quit calling him Sir Golf God, so maybe you are right.
Are you saying I should quit this job?
Just walk away and find another job?
Listen, he did the prudent thing. He had a three stroke lead going into the perilous eighteenth; thus, all he needed to do was make bogey and take double-bogey out of the equation. And laying up was exactly how that could be done -- it's called "playing the percentages," little guy.
You see, Timmie, sometimes being conservative is exactly what is called for.
when you are winning and you possess the football with time running out. You don't try to score a touchdown, but you sit on the blall and not allow the other team to get a chance of get the ball on a mistake.
Victory is hollow when one forfeits one's manhood.
Richard -- true. And how many times have you seen football temas almost blow it by becoming too conservative?
Normally if you say a player will not win...You would be correct 90% of the time....Tiger isn't normal. If you have been paying attention the last ten years, You would already know this.
I don't know how you define being a man, but stupidity isn't an integral part of my definition. Woods (who I don't really like, by the way), is a very intelligent man who did the prudent thing.
I don't think we need to give the male-bashers more ammunition by claiming that testosterone inspires a man to cast prudence to the winds. There's a fine line between adventurousness and stupidity.
that hole fantastically. I was rooting
for a double, and he layed up just to
spite me.
Just what are you so afraid of ? Why do you hate him so much? He's just a golfer(albeit the greatest golfer there is right now... but that too, will pass).
Why make yourselves so small? I'll bet it bothers him to no end, that you two don't like him. Why....he just may
quit the game and go cry in a corner somwhere !!!!!
What the hell is the matter with YOU,
Jack?
Jack is obviously a few cards short of a full deck.
Jack, I pointed out that I'm not fond of the Tigger within the context of defending his judgement and lauding his course management skills with regard to how he played the 18th hole of his last event. Thus, as any intelligent person realizes, far from being gratuitous criticism of him, my comments were designed to emphasize the fact that I have no ulterior motive in going to bat for him, that I have no horse in this race.
Aside from that, it's my prerogative to like or dislike whomever I please. Do you, Jack, like EVERY golfer on tour? Do you like every athlete in the world? Every celebrity? Every public figure? I very much doubt that you do. Now, does this make you a "hater"?
Grow up, adulthood has its virtues.
really smartering over that one.
As for you, remember what I said.....Stop throwing things
against the wall, if you want to be better at your job.
Let me worry about the Judge, you get back to practising you kraft.
posting worthless drivel. Sounds like
a book you should write Tim!
Do you have some association with the Kraft food company of which I'm not aware?
You and I both know that things you are not aware of
would make a whole new world !!!!!
You and I both know that things you are not aware of
would make a whole new world !!!!!
A fantasy-world, perhaps.
Since Jack is obviously from somewhere in or near the British Isles, or maybe even Down Under, my question is this:
What in the pluperfect hell has happened to the school systems in those countries?
Like so many of the other Limeys and Harps posting on these boards, he seems to lack any sense of grammar, usage, or spelling.
And the content of his posts make very little sense. What has happened?
Unfortunately, Britain has become feminized to an even greater degree than we have. This liberalism has resulted in a lowering of standards across the board. I'll also mention that this lack of fortitude and manly virtue is evidenced by their pusillanimous response to the little terrorist in Iran.
And I'll leave everyone with this thought: Think about how many British men have hyphenated names now; it's quite common these days. Alex, I'm sure you know what that indicates.