Posted on 05/12/2013 9:17:34 PM PDT by dr_lew
Tiger Woods had the last word against Sergio Garcia by winning The Players Championship on Sunday.
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I don’t see it as “gushing”. They do have elevated expectations, but that’s no favor! If he doesn’t win, he’s a flop! What about Rory? He was supposed to eclipse Tiger. He played today, you know.
His playing partner and his playing partner’s caddy pointed out where to drop. If it wasn’t Tiger, the discussion wouldn’t be happening.
Idol worship. If it weren't for Tiger, the Yankees, the Red Sox, and that sodomite fellow; ESPN would have nothing to discuss.
You forgot a keyword or two...
Greg Norman at the 1996 Masters comes to mind...
I’ll ask hubby if he remembers that.
Well thanks for the invitation. His wife didn’t hit him hard enough.
Woods is a damn good golfer.
There are many damn good golfers. (some who actually didn’t use sports enhancing drugs.....fancy that)
But what does it matter anyway. He is kinda black just like that anti-American piece of garbage in the White House. So all is forgiven.
When are Americans going to get tired of the media shoving crap down our throats. If they would just report the news instead of giving us the hard sell, I could stomach it. But I’ll be damned if I will swallow the BS they are dishing out.
I agree.....we didn't see the same level of scrutiny on Garcia and he certainly spent alot of drop time around the water.......LOL
I’m also very tired of all the gushing and attention that Tiger gets, and am not a fan, but I have come to realize it’s not exclusively his fault. Sports media is just as bad as any other media, they build up idols (and sometimes then knock them down, only to build them back up). There was/is the same amount of gushing over plenty of other athletes (I was a huge hockey fan at one time, but the Wayne Gretzky worship was a huge turn-off, to the point where I stopped watching the games)
As for the drop, the overhead shot on TV showed it probably should have been dropped in a different area, but players (not even the “amazing” Tiger) aren’t able to levitate above the course to see the shot as it’s heading out. If his playing partner, caddies & possibly the on-spot officials agreed to the drop, that works for me.
Below the Zeigler video is the following comment from a man who was standing on the tee box>
johndim11 2 hours ago
I was on the 14th when Tiger hit this tee shot. I was standing almost directly behind him about 3 people deep. The shot he hit was a very bad hook. I saw the video footage and the camera angles are horrible. The shot started out going towards the right side of the fairway and hooked sharply and landed about 7-10 left of the water line. The drop Tiger took was about 25 yards behind where the ball entered the water. I'm not a Tiger fan, so I am not making excuses for him, the drop was legal.
I wasn't there, so I can only comment on what I think" I see.
1. Aerial camera angles distort ball flight images, A LOT.
2. I like Mark Rolfing, but commentators quite often talk to fill the air and don't always have the best vision of what is happening. Many times you hear them say the ball is pushed, or going right or left, than it lands in the middle.
Other aerial camera shots showed shots that were ripped straight down the middle that looked like they were over the water immediately. In the end, the decision stands and Tiger is always going to cause controversy because of who he is. That's just a fact of life.
van de velde.
nuff said.
Well that’ interesting, so if no one cares about you it does not matter if you break the rules. Thanks I thought that was for democrats.
Tiger is a great golfer, but he is a pathetic excuse for a man. Woods lack of character makes it easy to believe he cheats on occasion. I think Sergio said what a majority of players think about Tiger, but are too gentlemanly to say.
The rules clearly state that if you are in doubt, ask your playing partner/opponent, and drop where he tells you to drop. That is what Tiger did. Even if Casey Wittenberg was wrong, by deferring to him Tiger covered himself.
Can’t disagree but I would say Greg Norman was a brighter light in the golf world at that time so his collapse was more memorable, IMO. YMMV.....
One problem I have with Zeigler’s explanation is he did not indicate where the hazard “starts” using the camera angles. The rule says “crosses the hazard” not “begins to fly over the area that eventually becomes a lateral hazard”.
Being a lateral hazard and visibly marked, where, in relation to he flight of the ball, does the hazard start? That can reasonably be deemed the “crossing point”.
No I did not and I was not there. I only watched from my TV set like 99.999999% of the people who watched the game. The people who were there and the ones that matter said it was a good drop.
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