# US OPEN thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 12, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690 "2008-06-12T14:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/261 "2008-06-17T14:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=Xema] Or how useless is such a ranking when not corrected for inflation. [/QUOTE] Even inflation corrected, the figures will not make sense. There is more interest in the game now, resulting in more relative money being poured into it. To make a true comparison, you would have to take the results Jack Nicklaus had in one of his good years (say, 1975), and then figure out what those same results would have netted in money last year. That would give you some idea of how to scale it. ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/262 "2008-06-17T15:10:35Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Even inflation corrected, the figures will not make sense. There is more interest in the game now, resulting in more relative money being poured into it. To make a true comparison, you would have to take the results Jack Nicklaus had in one of his good years (say, 1975), and then figure out what those same results would have netted in money last year. That would give you some idea of how to scale it. [/QUOTE] Agreed. The fact that Paul Goydos cleared over $1 million for second place at this year’s Players Championship tells you how much the purses in golf have escalated in the last 10 years, almost entirely due to inflated TV contracts courtesy of one Mr. Tiger Woods. He has made everyone in golf rich. Monetary inflation is only part of the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/263 "2008-06-17T15:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Well, they may not have, but Wikipedia have. [/QUOTE] Maybe he did, but it seems to me that his own website would be a better primary source. It refers to him as Eldrick (Tiger) Woods. This is the extent of the CNN cite : A single sentence buried in a reporter’s article about his Masters win. – _Earl gave his son the same nickname and the boy took to it so much that he legally changed his name from Eldrick to Tiger._ So for now, all we have is “Brian Todd said so.” > **[CNN.com - This one's for Pop - Apr 11, 2005](https://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/04/11/tiger.masters/index.html)** ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/264 "2008-06-17T21:28:17Z")
Well, [we also have this…](http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i9003) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/265 "2008-06-18T16:13:51Z")
[Tim Finchem just yakked up his lunch.](http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3450453) Woods’ season is over. Looks like he was hurt pretty bad. He had a double stress fracture in his left tibia before the Open but played anyway. > [@](#): > > Tiger Woods has decided to have surgery on his left knee, which will end his 2008 season. > > Woods said on his Web site that Woods will have surgery on his anterior cruciate ligament. He also wrote that he needs time to rehabilitate a double stress fracture of his left tibia, which he said was discovered just before the Memorial Tournament in late May. > > Woods skipped that event, but played 91 holes in winning the U.S. Open in a playoff over Rocco Mediate. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/266 "2008-06-18T16:27:33Z")
I wish to congratulate this year’s British Open and PGA Championship winners who will forever have a virtual asterisk by their names, whether they deserve it or not. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/267 "2008-06-18T17:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] I’ve usually nothing but respect for Tiger but couldn’t help but notice he grimaced and played up the pain after his bad shots more than his good yesterday, which is probably what made his club flingings so ugly late in the match. Maybe if I hadn’t played 18 Saturday with someone who’d just gone through a hip replacement (needs another but has to wait because of blood loss) and did so without all the theatrical grimacing it wouldn’t have struck me wrong. The announcers mentioned Rocco’s come back from 5 or 6 bouts with health issues. My sympathies for a fighter will have to lie with him. While I hope Mediate can do it today, Tiger’s still #2 in length of drive and his approaches and putting should be unaffected by what can only be described as minor surgery. I thought he’d tie it up yesterday. I think he’ll win today. The theatrics were bullshit but he is, without question, just a freakin’ awesomely good player. [/QUOTE] You might, at this point, want to rethink the thoughts you had here. :smack: :dubious: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/268 "2008-06-18T18:02:19Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] I wish to congratulate this year’s British Open and PGA Championship winners who will forever have a virtual asterisk by their names, whether they deserve it or not. [/QUOTE] Sucks to be them, eh? I feel bad for whoever wins (seriously). ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690/269 "2008-06-18T19:13:48Z")
[QUOTE=drm] Sucks to be them, eh? I feel bad for whoever wins (seriously). [/QUOTE] The million+ winner’s check will be ample consolation, I’m sure 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-thread/452690.md?page=13)