Posted on 07/23/2014 9:20:21 AM PDT by FlJoePa
Tiger Woods finished an hour and a half before eventual winner Rory McIlroy teed off. In that moment, the Tiger Woods Era of golf officially ended.
Over the weekend, lead Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee said, "There was a beginning of his career, middle of his career, and this is the end of his career, no question about it. Chamblee isn't the only talking head in golf who thinks the Tiger Era died this weekend. At Golf.com, a roundtable of writers all agreed. Eamon Lynch a Golf.com put it best, saying, "This point isn't even worthy of debating. It's demonstrably true that Tiger's days as a dominant force are over, and not based solely on this week's rusty performance. Dominance is measured in majors, and he hasn't won one in six years."
In golf, most people focus on the putting "yips." That's when a golfer gets nervous with short putts and either pushes or pulls their putts and can't make anything. On the putting green, where it's a touchy stroke, it makes sense to be nervous and have mental issues.
But there are driver yips, too. And Tiger has the yips with the driver. He doesn't look comfortable with the club in his hand. He's either pushing the ball way right or getting crossed up and pulling it left. Meanwhile, Bubba Watson, Rory McIlroy, Jason Dufner, and Adam Scott, are winning majors by confidently bombing the driver and then hitting easier clubs into the green. Until Woods can fix that problem, he's unlikely to win another major. And even when he does win another major, it will just be another major. It won't be a part of the Tiger Era. That era is now over. Tiger, even if he's great again, is just another guy, according to golf's smartest analysts.
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Tiger 2016. He at least has the golf credentials.
You might not, but HGH is on the PGA’s list of banned substances. They just don’t test for it.
FReegards
Thanks, for the info. I didn’t know the PGA had it on the list.
No problem, with something like HGH where it has therapeutic applications as well as performance applications the line does get a little blurred. I think many sports allow some level of it if you medically need it, but I don’t see how this isn’t abused all the time, especially in the sports that don’t even test for it in the first place.
Freegards
Casual sports fans do not watch mediocre or just good players. I know a lot of Tiger haters, but the facts are when he plays, non-golf fanatic people watch. That is not lost on the firms who pay millions to have their stuff advertised on the tube. The Tiger haters can rail against him all they want, but he makes everybody in the golfing biz more money.
GOOD!!!!
NOW LET’S END THE zer0 ERA...
FLOG= the worlds most useless sport.
Tiger Woods was a patient of a Canadien MD who was convicted of trafficking in performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in the US. Why was Tiger Woods a patient of a Canadien MD when he had the finest medical care system in the world available to him right here in the US?
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