So we go back to the pre-tiger days…big deal.I still will watch
Ok, so what’s the over/under on how many majors Tiger misses?
I say 1.5
My reasoning is that he can’t possibly play the Masters, or else his sacrifice wouldn’t be viewed as genuine. But I think it would be very hard for him to skip the US Open. I’d be impressed if he did.
Yeah, but half won’t. TV ratings fell by 50% when Tiger was rehabbing his knee.
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It sorta sucks for golf,but the game is waaaaaaaay better off without him and his asshole of a caddy,Good riddance.
Good God. The game is not better off without the greatest player who ever picked up a set of clubs, who also exponentially increases the TV ratings.
Might be a good time for the Tour to start considering what to do A.T. (after Tiger). He’s about to turn 34 and has had injury issues. He’s got about 10 years left (at most) at the top of his game. They’ve built the Tour around him (for very good reason), but he won’t be on top forever. The PGA needs to start developing and promoting the next round of stars. Granted, they won’t find one as good and compelling as him, but if they can find a few, they could play off the rivalry.
This is the problem when a sports league builds itself around players rather than the game. The players have relatively short careers (not to mention off the field issues can blow up on anyone). The NBA has the same problem. They’ve never recovered (ratings wise) from the Bird-Magic-Jordan glory days.
I’d bet he’ll skip the Masters, but the US Open is at Pebble and the British is at St Andrews, both of which are among his favorite courses.
Waking up, yawning, and getting out of bed also involves physical exertion. And about the same level as golf does.
for those that don’t think golf involves physical exertion i dare you to try this if you are not in shape and to some extent even if you are.
walk 6+ miles carrying a 50 pound bag of weight when the temperature is 90+. that’s if you play 18. just make it 12+ miles on those days that you go for 36. shoot i jog 5+ miles a day and am not nearly as physically spent after a relaxing run as i am after a round of golf.
oh and for those that say not all golfers do it that way.
well i also go shoot free throws with a basketball and will play one on one with my kids. hell i don’t even break a sweat. guess that means basketball isn’t a sport and requires no physical exertion either.
When was the last time Tiger Woods carried his own golf bag?
i wasn’t commenting on tw. i was addressing the misguided souls that don’t think golf requires physical exertion and therefore is not a sport. also, tw and the rest of the pros probabaly spend at least 2 - 4 more hours than i do in getting ready for a round. my routine is roll a couple of putts, whack a couple of balls chug a beer and then go.
Do you golf? When I walk 18, I’m tired. On a good course with lots of hills, it can be particularly taxing. Next take into consideration how hard professional golfers swing their clubs. It’s like 5 rounds of home run derby. It’s definitely physical exertion.
Forget carrying. Walking 5 miles up and down hills is plenty of exercise. Non golfers always downgrade it. They are wrong.
and i’ll show my age a wee bit. remember when we still had spikes, not the soft sort but those metal suckers that could skank an ankle if you got foot tangled. i remember breaking a pair down after i was done with them and the construction was out of the middle ages. they had metal plates in the soles so that the spikes had something to push up against when you were walking across asphalt or concrete. man those bastards had to have weighed a couple of pounds per shoe. talk about a work out.
crap dude. you either play short courses or are down the middle all the time. on a 450 yard par 4 i walk at least 600 yards. back and forth from one rough to the other and then back and forth on the green. i play military golf. left, right, left, right. lather, rinse, repeat.
ok, ok, ok just one more because i can.
i was playing one day with this old fuck. down the middle all day. come up to a 540 or so yard par 5 playing dead into a gale. he skanks one down the middle 180 or so. i boom one about 250 or so into the left rough (came over the top). he skanks his second another 170 or so down the middle. i clobber another 200 yarder dead right (got loose at the top). he skanks another onto the front edge of the green. i of couse pound the fuck out of a nine or so dead left. then i blade a wedge over the green. fat a chip and three putt for a smooth snowman. he of course yacks it up about 4 foot and cans it for par. he asks me what in the world. and i was like, i was just trying to tack upwind. bought me a beer after we were done.
There is a lot of hoopla about Tiger Woods and his infidelities all over the news, and to be honest, I don’t particularly give a damn.
However, just thought I would mention a quick story:
Last year in my college speech class, we played a quick impromptu speech game called the “Big Lie” where two students have to get up in front of the class - one tells a story that is absolutely true, and the other tells a story that is a total lie. The class then has to guess who is telling the truth. (It is a great exercise to begin discussions on critical thinking.)
So, one of the members of the class - an attractive woman, a bit on the “wild” side and to be honest, somewhat of a bitch and few in class liked her very much - told her story.
She said that when she first moved to Las Vegas with a girlfriend of hers, the two of them went out during a weeknight and were at a Strip hotel/casino and met Tiger Woods and a friend of his. The two guys bought lots of drinks, they all hit a hot nightclub and got the VIP treatment and then they went to Tiger’s suite in the casino. That is where things got a little weird and the guys got more than just a bit aggressive. My student said she got pissed off and said to Tiger, “You’re married - what the hell is this?” She said she left the suite at that point and finished her story with, “No matter what the press says, Tiger Woods is a slime-ball.”
Nobody believed her story and they all believed the other person. It was then that she said, “My story is the true one - every word.” She went on an had a few more choice words about Tiger that were not flattering.
At any rate, just thought it was interesting that this story popped up in my speech class over a year ago.
How is this for creative wording:
Heh, that’s pretty damn clever if I do say so myself.