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

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! :smiley:

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.

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.