Sounds like one of my rounds. I probably wouldn’t have the birdies though. They’d just be all bogeys.
Oops.
I thought Blake wrote “Tyger”, not Byron…
For the past two years, Tiger against the field has pretty much been even money. He’s 15 for 31.
As I said all along, this week belongs to Brad Bryant, legendary Tiger slayer.
Oh please, someone pull a round outta your ass and don’t everyone fade today as usual. But I fear by the time I turn the TV on this p.m., the result will no longer be in doubt. Yep, Sean O’Hair will be running away with it!
Fuck!
In the words of Dan patrick -
“From way downtown - bang!”
I am in awe.
There’s no defense in golf. All somebody has to do is beat him.
I always think that at some point, Tiger will have an off week or somebody will just get scorching.
The thing is, he never does… and people do and he is still better. That 24 footer, to win, is why he is the best personified. When he wants it, he finds it.
I think breaking Lord Byrons record may be difficult, but if anybody is going to do it, it’s Tiger.
IMO, for the record, discounting any of the wins is really silly. Even if he’s not going up against Mickelson or El each week- he’s going up against Pro’s. He has to bring it every week, and every week there is some random person who is going to rise up, get hot and present some sort of challenge.
If he was consistently entering into… The Local 49ers classic or something like that, I’d see the point. But he’s not.
For most people golf is a game of streaks. Some days the putts go in. Some days the drives hit the fairways. Some days they don’t. That is why there will always be a hot player on a good weekend challenging Tiger. It would appear even then ,they will usually lose.
So…about this story that I’ve read before…
There’s still usually a baseline level of consistency and ability for a given player, though. They may get relatively hotter or colder from week to week but you still kind of know what their baseline is. That’s why the same group of players tends to be in the top 10 or 20 every week. Tiger’s baseline is like a normal tour player’s hot zone. He’s had years that would be career years for anyone else (say a year where he wins 5 or 6 tournaments, one of them a Major and ends up topping the money list and with the number one ranking), but people start talking about him being in a “slump,” because he only won one Major.
The guy is amazing. Before the Tiger era, the kind of records and stats we take for granted with Tiger would have sounded silly. Winning four Majors in a row was like an MLB player hitting 600 – just a ludicrous accomplishment. The fact that anyone can get a serious discussion going about whether Tiger might break Nelson’s win streak is a Tribute to him all by itself.
I giggled when that last putt went in on 18 today. You could just feel it coming.
There aren’t too many people in sports who you can bank on to come through like that in the clutch. Awesome.
That’s it in a nutshell. For him to lose, not only does someone else have to he hot, but Tiger has to be off his game. And hell - even when he is off his game, he is usually in the top 5.
Yes, he is awesome. But personally I find it boring.
I keep waiting for this to happen to me, but it hasn’t so far. I think it’ll take Tiger getting bored to make him bore me.
I think it’s a little bit of a pain having Tiger always winning, but these are the times we remember. We remember the Brad May event, and now we’ve got the Bart Bryant round.
Who cares how many he wins in a row. It is pretty easy to rig it if you are God.
Bob May. Too many breadsticks this weekend? 
I don’t find it boring at all. What’s boring about virtuosity? I love watching somebody be the best in the world at something.