# Who's a more dominant sport's figure: Federer or Woods?

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**Created:** [December 2, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-a-more-dominant-sports-figure-federer-or-woods/382545 "2006-12-02T00:07:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-a-more-dominant-sports-figure-federer-or-woods/382545/61 "2007-02-25T16:56:28Z")

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Yeah - I’m sure Tiger is the first golfer ever to blame a missed shot on course conditions, acts of God, or other factors instead of just simply admitting he screwed up! 😃

Waiting for the first folk to say, “Yeah, but this was a matchplay event. Tiger’s streak of strokeplay, PGA tour wins continues …”

I read once that one way to “toughen” scoring is to slow down the greens. Sounded sort of counter-intuitive, as most amatures have trouble with faster greens. But the longer the grass, the more inherent - uh - flaws such that a percentage of perfectly stroked putts will miss. They had a machine making identical strokes, and a greater percentage of putts would miss the longer/slower the greens.

Having said that, Tiger is a phenomenal short putter. I remember one year reading he only missed one or none of the several hundred putts he had within 3 or 4 feet or so. Contrast that with Lefty, who missed 2 short putts on each of the back nine during the final 2 rounds last week.

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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-a-more-dominant-sports-figure-federer-or-woods/382545/62 "2007-05-11T10:13:32Z")

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Update:

Federer has already lost 4 matches this very young season, after losing 5 matches total all of last season.

Meanwhile, since the tournament immediately following his father’s death when he understandably missed the cut, Tiger has won 9 of the 13 tournaments he entered, finishing in the top three 11 out of those 13 times.

Hey, whaddya know, this crow _does_ taste like suck.

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