Unbelievable. There are some really big names moving up the leaderboard on Sunday, but Tiger is putting them away. -4 through 7 and in the outright lead after being 3 down starting out.
This is actually a better field than next week at the PGA.
When Tiger really gets determined, it’s almost impossible to stop him. He’s blowing Harrington away, and you’d think Paddy would be one of the few immune to the “scared of Tiger” hex. :eek:
Nobody is immune. Maybe Phil has the weakest case of Tigeritis.
Tiger blew the lead by hitting tee shots all over the place again. He is one back on 14.
Wow. That was a hell of a shot Tiger just hit on 16.
Dagger to Harrington’s heart.
And Padraig is in the soup. Tiger has a tap in for birdie. This could end up being a 3 shot swing.
That is one big ass trophy. Where do you put 7 of them.
I haven’t looked it up, but it appears that the Greater Greensboro Open must have switched locations during Sam Snead’s 8 victories in that tournament. That’s the next record Tiger gets to try for.
The shot on 16 was unfuckingbelievable! Clearly rattled Harrington.
It was matchplay. You have got to be able to ignore your opponent and play the course. It is not easy.
I think you put that backward. Match play is all about playing your opponent. 100%.
That is merely the format. If Harrington ignored Tiger and shot the course well ,he would have won. he couldn’t resist getting involved in Tiger hysteria. he was leading by 3 going in.
OK, but that has nothing to do with matchplay. Leading by three means nothing in matchplay. You can score a fifteen on a par three while your opponent hits a hole in one, and all you suffer is one lost hole.
The more interesting “match play” question here is whether Tiger became more aggressive because he saw Harrington’s lie on 16. We don’t know, and Tiger didn’t say immediately after, but according the folks on TV he hit an iron harder than he would ever ordinarily hit it, nailing that unusual shot. That’s what makes Tiger Tiger.
When you start with anyone in the last twosome, you are playing match play as much as medal play. You can’t help yourself, it seems to me.
I believe that this is incorrect. You’d only get to take a tee shot; if you fail to ace like your opponent, you’d concede the hole, and not even get a second shot.
There’s the house you own, and the yacht you own, and there is the room you build for the trophys. From the USGA Junior Amateur to the USGA Amateur, to the Big Four, I’d say he keeps them in the house or on the yacht. The non-majors probably are with his Mom or at home, but who knows?
If you tee off first, you could hit seven shots out of bounds and hole the next one.
The point anyway is only that matchplay doesn’t count total strokes.
Often when it comes down to 2 players playing for the tournament on the last day, it is referred to by the announcers as a match play event. While they are counting total strokes instead of holes, they are still playing head to head. They do not have to worry about other players. You just have to beat the player you are matched with. It has a lot of match play characteristics. It lacks only one.
Yeah, and it’s pretty inconsequential. What does scoring matter, really?