Tiger had the worst round of his career, an absolutely awful 85 , quadruple bogey on the 18th hole. They’ll be yet another round of the Is Tiger Finished? debates.
Tiger in last place and will play alone, teeing off first on Sunday. It’ll be interesting to see if he recovers tomorrow. I’m hoping that he doesn’t take the cowardly way out and withdraw.
The problem isn’t even getting back close to what he was. The problem is even if he does he would now have to contend with the spectres of Spieth & McIlroy (and maybe even Fowler), all of which haven’t likely reached their peak yet. Even if he gets back all the way they may still beat him.
Better this morning (but how could it not be). Still destined for a (near) last place finish of those who made the cut.
Hey! but at least he beat top 10 golfers Fowler and Day who missed the cut!
And who knows, he could have Ben Curtis moment and still win a major.
How low have Tiger fans sunk when they imagine that Tiger could do something that Ben Curtis did.
US Open starts a week from Thursday. Tiger’s problem is not that he is missing a lot fairways, he is missing a lot of fairways by 40-50 yds. Its going to be a couple of long days at Chambers Bay if he starts missing those fairways by 40-50 yds.
You can’t get analysis like this anywhere else.
Do you mean something like this epiphany? :rolleyes:
For context “it” is confidence.
I’m not much of a golf fan, but I’ll be watching a bit of the Open. I grew up about half a mile from Chambers Bay.
Bump for the US Open
Chambers Bay looks incredible. Weather forecast could not be better.
Rory has missed two consecutive cuts in Europe. Can he regain form that won two events in early May?
Spieth is in contention nearly every week. Can he win the first two legs of the Grand Slam?
They are the two definitive favorites. But Chambers Bay has Wide fairways for US Open, will that help two of the Old Guard?
It certainly should help Mickelson. Mickelson played well in Memphis last week with a T3. Can he finally get it done in the US Open and win the Career Grand Slam?
But I am not sure if wide fairways will help Woods as he was missing the fairways by 40+ yards at Memorial two weeks ago.
Furyk, Rose, Spieth, Garcia, and Mickelson are my picks to do well this week.
Actually, rumors today are that Chambers is hanging on by a thread. We may see another '04 Shinnecock where they scramble to hold the course together long enough to get to Sunday.
Spieth wins the US Open, and wins the John Deere again. Rory is layed up with a sprained ankle and the British Open starts Monday.
After Spieth’s win today, the Number One ranking is in reach this week, but only if Spieth wins.
Tiger fans are giddy that he had a bogey free round last week at Greenbrier. Finished T32nd in a relatively weak field tournament.
Onto St Andrews. Can Spieth win the first three Majors. Hogan did it in 1953, although the Masters was not considered a major 60+ years ago. Palmer, Nicklaus and Woods all had chance after winning the first two legs, but couldn’t get it done.
Palmer and Nicklaus both finished 2nd in the British, Woods finished T28th.
You sound about 12 years old when you post crap like that. Kudos if you are less than 12.
Sure. The conditions at Chambers Bay were about as close to St. Andrews as you can get in a US golf course. He would have been the favorite even if Rory were healthy.
No, he didn’t. The PGA was the third major of 1953, so Hogan won the first, second, and fourth majors of that year. Tiger is the only player to have won three (let alone four) consecutive professional majors since the 1882 Open Championship, when there were 40 players in the field (all from England or Scotland), first prize was 12 pounds, and the low round of the week was 83. Sounds almost as tough as the Open that Gary Player won in 1959, with zero US pros in the field.
But since you bring up Hogan — after Hogan’s brilliant 1953 season, both Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson proclaimed Hogan as the greatest player of all time. Hogan’s 1953 Open win was his 9th and last major win, even retroactively calling the Masters a major – and even calling the Open a major, since it had fallen into such disregard after WW II that the PGA didn’t even bother to schedule around it. Hogan was one of only four Americans in the field, including an amateur and an obscure club pro. Like all post-war Open Championships before the mid-70’s or later, it had a weaker field than most regular PGA events of the time, let alone today.
Walter Hagen hit his prime before the PGA Championship was founded, and over 20 years before the Masters was founded, so he had only two majors a year to play, the US and British Opens. He had to take a month-long round trip to play the Open, and even so it was cancelled for five years during his prime (and for two years, he had no majors to play at all) due to WW I, so he only played it 10 times in his life. And when the PGA Championship was founded, it was match play, which meant one bad day and you were out, or even one great day and you were out, if your opponent happened to play better that day.
In spite of all that, he won 11 professional majors, even if you don’t count his five Western Opens, which were considered majors at the time. Yet Hogan was widely considered the greatest player ever, before Jack. Including, by the way, by Jack himself. And if it wasn’t Hogan, it was Jones, who had won four consecutive majors, even though two of them had zero pros and no more than half a dozen world class golfers in the field. And if it wasn’t Hogan or Jones, it was Nelson, or maybe Snead. What all of the above have in common is that none of them had as many pro major wins as Walter Hagen.
So all the BS about 18>14 seems to be a matter of convenience for Jack fans. Nelson, Sarazen, and even Nicklaus clearly thought that three or four majors in a row were a lot better than more majors won over a long period.
But then, they knew a lot about the game.
Read some of the comments here:
Some samples:
Giddy!
I am sure there are some similar comments at golfwrx, and sandtrap.
Congratulations, you have discovered that there are some nutty people who make comments on message boards. But anyone over 12 knows that even though, say, Republican MBs are full of comments about Obama preparing to invade Texas via tunnels connecting Walmarts, they are the lunatic fringe, not the average Republican.
ETA: And even so, I’d say two of your three cherry-picked examples are fairly sober assessments of his game. “Encouraging signs” or “still has work to do” is not giddy, or even especially sanguine. It’s just saying he showed some improvement, which is true.
Man, DJ is really positioning himself to be in the HoF for most near misses in majors. Hope he is able to close the deal one of these times.
And Spieth is right in the mix.
Meanwhile, Tiger is WAY down the board. Will need an impressive Friday to play the weekend.
And I was hearing all about how Tiger had figured out his problems and he was going to be in the hunt. So much for that.
Surprised Woods played so poorly. Apparently the course is playing very easy today.
Yeah - 11 strokes back, T133. But he remains a huge media story. Cannot imagine what is going on inside his head. How to convince himself of a positive mindset?
I read that one of the Golf TV analysts (Chamblee? somewhat of a blowhard IMO) was pretty harshly critical of Tiger’s current state, calling him a shell of the golfer he used to be. I’ve never been a Tiger fan, but now he is almost more interesting to me - almost like a tragic figure out of Shakespeare. But would have to be difficult for someone who was once so dominant and intimidating, to be essentially an amusing human-interest side story.
The paper this a.m. said the wind was supposed to be blowing today and tomorrow. Was shocked to see so many scores so low.
The wind wasn’t too bad today. Fairly benign in fact. Tomorrow afternoon the wind is meant to be up. Should be fun.
Wow - rain delay! Looks like I’ll have plenty to distract me from work today! 
So I guess folks are Really into this, huih? :dubious:
Looks like folk are going low again today on the soaked couse. Just read some commentary on Tiger’s 1st round - BRUTAL! Sounds like he missed everything from his first drive to easy lob wedges.
cancelled because of wind? Isn’t that the point of links golf?