my only point folks is that it sure looks worse to stop when you are down as opposed to when you are up. playing golf can be a bbbbbyyyyyytttttccccchhhhh but it is also is as fun as heck. tiger doesn’t look to be enjoying it. i mean it’s always a job for most of these folks but shoot look at mickelson. it seems like he is having a grand time out there. or westwood for that matter. tiger seems to be playing for money or recognition not out of a love for the game.
No kidding it looks worse. But you didn’t say “it looks bad that he stopped,” you said “he’s an arrogant ass and now apparently he doesn’t even give back to the sport that has made him a mulit millionaire.” If you’re saying it looks worse, nobody’s going to say anything other than “duh.” That’s not what you’ve said so far.
but i don’t think that they are mutually exclusionary. he is an arrogant ass and it does look bad that he stopped. i don’t see how one precludes the other.
It’s hard to enjoy golf if you have a painful neck injury.
Buddy, I don’t agree with anything you’ve said, but you’d be a hell of a lot of fun to play a round with. You can keep your wacky tobacky to yourself, though, because I got a respectable job I have to keep!
The Soap Opera keeps getting stranger and stranger. Golf Channel is now reporting that Hank Haney has resigned as Tiger’s Swing coach.
We know. You’re totally bitchin’.
Now there’s some serious disrespect for the game.
They don’t preclude each other. It sounded like you were backing off the “arrogant ass” stuff (because it was wrong) and revising it to “it looks bad.” And Yookeroo makes a good point. If you’re getting drunk and stoned in the middle of a tournament, you’ve got no grounds for accusing an injured player of disrespecting your game.
And this a.m. I the paper said that he denied that the neck was related to the car accident. I thought i had earlier read/seen that he had been having neck problems since the accident, but I may be mistaken.
It is hard to believe anything that Tiger says these days. His credibility is approaching an all-time low. After Saturdays round at TPC, he said he was close to putting it altogther and he was fine physically. After playing 6 1/2 holes on Sunday, he walks off the golf course, 2 over for the round (probably about to go 3 over) and tells the world he has problem in his neck that he has had for a month.
A month?
he has some sort of physical problem and apparently he has not seen a Doctor about it?
On a related note, AFAIK, it has never been confirmed that was in rehab for SEX addiction. I think the rehab was for prescription pill addiction (vicodin and/or ambien or similar). He might have been able to “play through the pain” if he was still on vicodin.
FWIW, I have no link, but I have read somewhere that neither vicodin or ambien is part of the PGATour’s list of banned substances.
i guess i don’t see that. i counted every stroke and followed every rule. have you played golf recently? they have these carts that drive around and sell adult beverages. kind of seems like it is encouraged.
and certainly you can’t discount hagen who was known as pretty much a wild child for his era.
There are carts that sell weed where you play?
Is there some rule that says if you get injured and are down in the standings, then you have to keep playing until you’re more hurt than you were that time you were hurt and up in the standings? Because I just checked the rule book and didn’t see anything like that.
Boy, Tiger sure is an idiot! If only he’d thought to schedule his neck injury for a time when he was winning the fans would have been perfectly happy with his withdrawal.
as a matter of fact.
back when 281 was being built in san antonio and they had to chop off some of the old holes from brackenridge there was this little taco shack on 13 or 14 where you could get some killer lemonade and a toke or two. 'course this was the 60’s mid 70’s ish and things were a wee bit different back then.
shit i had a pony tail and i don’t think that it was real dissing the game. we just teed it up, counted 'em up and figured who had the lowest number. that person won.
the only point that i have been trying to make is that it seems odd that all of a sudden this injury that he has had for a while (that didn’t preclude him from competing in the masters and doing darn good, btw) all of a sudden becomes so debillitating that he can’t finish a round. a round where he is stinking it up, btw. it just seems “convenient”.
Because a nagging injury that flairs up couldn’t possibly make your performance worse.
as opposed to an acute injury like a broken leg might make you play better? or at least good enough to win a u.s. open?
Your repeated none-too-subtle references to your golfing prowess could be interpreted as trying to convey some additional points… 
I’ve been afraid to ask how many holes in one he has got while stoooooooned out of his mind.
Even if the number isn’t very high, I’m sure there will be some great stories associated with the answer.
ETA: and shit.
Honestly, I bet if you put up a poll in imho, most people will tell you that neck & back pain is far worse than a straightforward broken bone. Spinal injuries, even minor ones, feed straight into all the major nerve centers. People walk around all the time with broken bones. Back problems can mean whole weeks on the couch.
And I doubt Tiger sees his withdrawal as disrespect for the game.
Yes, you’ve made it clear just how cool you are.
At tournaments?
His ‘broken’ leg was not an acute injury. It was a stress-related fracture, IIRC, that had been developing and bothering him for some time, and which he knew he was going to have repaired after the US open. He knew he would be in no position to play for some time after that tournament, and so there was no point in quitting. That was his chance to win before taking time off, he gritted it out, and he won.
Very different story these days when he is trying to regain his career momentum after an absence. It’s in his interest to get healthy now, and not to let injuries pile up and require a longer absence later.