What’s with the big “MC” - Massive Choker? Major Champion?
I’m not a huge golf fan (though I do enjoy watching it from time to time and support the European players and team) and I have no dog in this fight except to say that Tiger playing well is clearly good for golf, and I would be quite happy to see him reach 19 majors. However, if it came down to a playoff between him and Rory, Lee, Luke, or most other Europeans, I’d be rooting for them.
MC stands for “Missed Cut” on PGA leaderboards. During the late lamented Rory Era, Tiger missed one cut, and the peanut gallery said he was washed up, or “just another golfer.” Rory just ended a streak of missing four cuts in five events.
Dude someone has to break Rory and the hot tennis player up LOL. Ever since he and Woz have been kickin it.. they’ve both been HORRIBLE..
reminds me of that great underground classic CB4 (Chris Rock movie) When Chris Rock told his DJ Otis. ":Ever since you got some (slang of ummm cat?) your mixing has fallen the fuck off!!! "..
Doh! Thanks. Obvious now you point it out.
Impossible. He’s all washed up, and he can’t win a full field event.
He does better when he has a hot girlfriend.
That can’t be it; I date supermodels, but I can’t break 80.
Edit: crap, play cancelled for today, and resumes at 7AM my time tomorrow. I hate getting up that early.
Well, Tiger just won his third stroke play PGA event out of four tries so far this year, and he’s regained the World #1 spot. He still has a lot of room for improvement, but it’s pretty clear that his game is back to the point where he just needs a good putting week to win a major, and he’s starting to have good putting weeks more often than not.
And he seems to know to play it safe - he didn’t go for the green on 18 -
and damn if that par put wasn’t close.
Yup, it’s more exciting when he has to birdie 18 to win — which he’s done a couple or three times at the API — but it’s actually more dominating to have a cushion that allows you to make a double bogey and still win. You don’t get to carry the strokes forward to the next event, so you might as well use them.
But it sure would have been cool if that putt had dropped.
Generally, when an athlete has truly godlike dominance of a sport, the kind of transcendent ultra-hyper-gigastar laps the field five times over and is absolutely utterly invincible and untouchable, his career generally follows one of these paths:
And that’s what’s most infuriating about Tiger Woods…the simple fact that there’s no way that someone who’s had as many catastrophic career collapses as him should be this damn good right now. And of course, the inverse is equally true; someone capable of winning three in a row should have toppled Jack Nicklaus’ ultimate record, like two years ago.
I mean, sheesh, how many times has this thread been bumped, five? The heck with Jason Voorhees, he’s Wolverine.
Yo, ESPN: This is the angle I’m interested in.
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Eh…maybe he breaks the record, maybe he doesn’t. Just don’t drag it out, y’know?
Tiger Woods is more like Muhammad Ali or Madonna, in that they all have gone through stylistic changes, reinventing themselves multiple times.
It seems to me you could make an argument for 1, 4, and 5 applying to Woods. Was that your intention, or were you making the point that he doesn’t really fall into any of those categories, because he is still so good?
And now he’s won the Players, with an average putting week at best. He even put one in the drink to keep it interesting.
I don’t know how many majors he’ll win this year, but he’s clearly back to dominating the golf world. It’s now just a matter of being on his game during the week of a major.
And his opponents are clearly back to falling apart during crunch time. Sergio birdies #16, and the playoff is a crapshoot.
??? Sergio did birdie 16.
If you meant 17, he was trying very hard to do just that, which is why he went for the sucker pin.
That’s what Tiger does — he forces the other players to take risks, because pars won’t beat him. Sometimes the risks pay off; most of the time, they don’t.
Yes, meant #17.
And mostly the other players fail, because they aren’t all that good. And they only had that chance because Mr. Frontrunner chunked it into the water himself a few holes earlier, but nobody (once again) took advantage. I was hoping that we would have a new top gun by now, but the one guy who appeared to be on his way to becoming just that (McIlroy) has been very inconsistent (tho 2 majors and his young age still gives me hope).
Yes, Tiger is again The Man. But I agree with DiFool - it is indeed tough to be counting on the likes of Lingmerth, Maggert, Streelman, or even Sergio to press him down the stretch.
Tiger really showed his mindset when he dunked one on 14, then hit it into greenside jail on 15 - only to chip it stiff for the up and down. He seems to have his mental toughness back, which makes him close to unbeatable.
He can stick with just about anyone off the tee with a frigging 5-wood, and is hitting his irons stiffer than anyone. To wrap up the package, his putting has been solid since whichever tourney that was down in Fla. If Tiger isn’t spraying it off the tee, putting himself in jail with his irons, or missing putting opportunities, he is just about impossible to beat. He can recover from any single bad shot or bad hole. When his head wasn’t in it, e was string together bad holes and missed opportunities. Not happening these days
Early on I thought this was going to turn out to be Tiger v Rory. Well, I was half right!
As a confirmed Tiger disliker (and Jack fan), my only hope at this point is that he not win majors. On the other hand, I’ve realized the foolishness of not picking him in my regular pools. So as much as I was cheering against Tiger and for anyone who had a chance to beat him, I made money off him.
Sergio doesn’t need pressure from Tiger to choke away his chances.