The Golf Thread

polaris_x

pdalowsky wrote:

would prefer the word admiring

i'm pretty sure you guys would pay $50 for a vial of his bathwater ...

polaris_x

lukin2006 wrote:

Count me among those who has never liked Woods.

but why? ...

ComeToTX

Seeing guys do things that nobody else can do is why most of us watch sports. Tiger has the ability to do things on the course that nobody else has done yet. I understand rooting for other guys to beat him but I don't understand refusing to appreciate greatness.

lukin2006

ComeToTX wrote:

Tiger has the ability to do things on the course that nobody else has done yet.

Like what.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

lukin2006 wrote:

ComeToTX wrote:

Tiger has the ability to do things on the course that nobody else has done yet.

Like what.

Like get himself in a lot of trouble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc

ComeToTX

lukin2006 wrote:

ComeToTX wrote:

Tiger has the ability to do things on the course that nobody else has done yet.

Like what.

Four straight majors
Lowest scoring record for a season
Most tourney wins (by next year)
Most consecutive cuts made
Won US amateur 3 straight years
Best winning % ever

Just to name a few.

Wobbie

ComeToTX wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

ComeToTX wrote:

Tiger has the ability to do things on the course that nobody else has done yet.

Like what.

Four straight majors
Lowest scoring record for a season
Most tourney wins (by next year)
Most consecutive cuts made
Won US amateur 3 straight years
Best winning % ever

Just to name a few.

you forgot sexting.

ComeToTX

I said on the course. I don't think he sext's on the course.

Wobbie

ComeToTX wrote:

I said on the course. I don't think he sext's on the course.

I'd say he certainly received a few!

ComeToTX

imalive wrote:

ComeToTX wrote:

I said on the course. I don't think he sext's on the course.

I'd say he certainly received a few!

Most likely

norm

back in the day, Arnold Palmer banged anything that moved


just sayin'

Wobbie

norm wrote:

back in the day, Arnold Palmer banged anything that moved


just sayin'

well, fuck yeah

polaris_x

ComeToTX wrote:

Four straight majors
Lowest scoring record for a season
Most tourney wins (by next year)
Most consecutive cuts made
Won US amateur 3 straight years
Best winning % ever

Just to name a few.

most of that stuff is from a looong time ago ... but it's not like he dominated the statistical categories ...

either way - the guy's a great golfer no doubt ... but i actually like cheering for guys that aren't pricks - that's all ... but i'm a socialist tree hugger who believes that class is more important than winning ...

edit: and the point about tiger doing things others can't do is kinda false ... it's really his overall game that has allowed him to regain #1 ... it's not like he can draw or cut it like bubba or have the short game of phil ...

Wobbie

norm wrote:

back in the day, Arnold Palmer banged anything that moved


just sayin'

I got a good story....since this is the GOLF thread, even tho it seems like the TIGER thread...

back in the day, my mom (like most of the ladies ) was a definite member of arnie's army....she had volunteered at a tournament in columbus, ohio (pre-memorial, I'm pretty sure)....everyone knew my mom as Ace, even tho her given name was lorraine....arnie hit a bad shot that struck my mom in the shoulder....the next day, the Columbus Dispatch has a big picture of my mom, pointing to her shoulder with the headline "Arnie Makes Hit With Ace"

a month or so later, he sent her a putter in the mail. it hung in our rec room for years

another time, my dad, who was a traveling salesman, stopped to fix a flat tire of two black women in an early 60s cadillac. not to long after that, one of the first color TVs arrived at our house with a thank you note from mrs. nat king cole :shock:

I, on the other hand, have never met anyone famous.

Jason P

This is interesting ...

Photos show Tiger Woods may not have deserved a two-stroke penalty

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Tiger Woods was assessed a two-stroke penalty and received a mountain of criticism after taking an illegal drop on the 15th hole of Friday's Masters that sent the venerable tournament in chaos.

The question now, however, is whether he actually committed a violation at all, or instead was the victim of a false confession.

The Augusta Chronicle on Sunday printed two photos by staffer Michael Holahan of Woods' two chip shots from the 15th fairway. The first hit the flagstick and rolled into the water, forcing Woods to take a one-stroke penalty and then drop his ball "as nearly as possible" to his original location.

....


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/golf--photos-show-tiger-woods-may-not-have-deserved-a-two-stroke-penalty-204353354.html

polaris_x

uhhh ... tiger admitted to dropping in a different spot in order to get a better angle at the pin ...

RoughMix

norm wrote:

back in the day, Arnold Palmer banged anything that moved


just sayin'

Would like to see where you got this info.
Just askin'

Jason P

polaris_x wrote:

uhhh ... tiger admitted to dropping in a different spot in order to get a better angle at the pin ...

Are you saying Tiger is a goody goody two-shoes that doesn't lie???

Jason P

RoughMix wrote:

norm wrote:

back in the day, Arnold Palmer banged anything that moved


just sayin'

Would like to see where you got this info.
Just askin'

He's from an era where men of power could drink and whore themselves to an early grave and the media would never even think of reporting about it.

Now TMZ is a leading news source.

polaris_x

Jason P wrote:

Are you saying Tiger is a goody goody two-shoes that doesn't lie???

... this is an absurd line of reasoning no!? ... ... i mean, are you suggesting he lied so that he could actually incur a 2 stroke penalty? ... that makes no sense whatsoever ...