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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He still did good ... COMPARED TO SERGIO !
Well, Sergio was very gentlemanly about the whole thing, and nothing against him, but GO TIGER!
You didn’t have a problem with his drop on #14?
So when are all the Tiger beaters going to chime in on Vijay?
The PGA TOUR Rules Committee issued the following interpretation on the drop:
“Without definitive evidence, the point where Woods’ ball last crossed the lateral water hazard is determined through best judgement by Woods and his fellow competitor. If that point later proves to be a wrong point (through television or other means), the player is not penalized by Rule 26-1 given the fact that a competitor would risk incurring a penalty every time he makes an honest judgment as to the point where his ball last crosses a water-hazard margin and that judgment subsequently proves incorrect (Decision 26-1/17).”
Questionable enough that the tour had to issue a statement on it. I saw it live and switched channels so it isn't on my DVR, but the original overhead view showed where his ball crossed and lets just say he took some liberties.
Did you see it though Baynative? I’ve played enough competitive amateur and professional golf to know a bad drop when I see one. This one qualified.
It’s a part of playing in FL. There’s water on every hole. But he needs to do better.
Tiger is probably the most watched (and sometimes the most disliked) player on tour and I think he is probably fully aware of the controversy taking leniency with his own judgement would cause. Most often, official rulings are made when players cannot agree and summon assistance.
I’ll just ask you this - and I respect your work as a rules official - would Sergio have allowed Tiger to take that drop had they been paired together?
He is narcissistic and cheap. It has long been known he rarely tips slobs like limo drivers from airports.
He was disgusting long before he ran over the fire hydrant. GO TIGER! What a low brow society we live in today.
Tiger Woods is to Jack Nicklaus as Barry Bonds is to Hank Aaron.
IOW, it matters not if a juicing reprobate breaks an honorable sportsman’s record, the greatest remains the greatest.
Well, one of the on air announcers, who was at or near the tee, said that he saw nothing to question it. Johnny Miller was skeptical but could only say positively that "it was close". From what I could see for myself, I couldn't determine anything at all. So, no, I have no problem.
On the call: you've probably seen it a few times yourself. When a shot is a long high hook rather than a dead pull the call over where it actually crossed the hazard line opens a lot of debate. The amateur tournaments I've worked usually only have a handful of officials on the whole course. The PGA Tour is well funded and I am a bit at odds that they don't have either qualified rules officials, apprentices or knowledgeable fore caddies and spotters in awkward places in a tournament of this caliber.
To your question of Tiger and Sergio. When I began learning the game and I had questions about rulings on my ball such as taking relief or determining playable situations, my mentor used to ask first, "What would you tell me if that was my ball?"
Tiger’s playing partner and his playing partner’s caddie told him where to drop. Case closed.
He is narcissistic and cheap. It has long been known he rarely tips slobs like limo drivers from airports.
He was disgusting long before he ran over the fire hydrant. GO TIGER! What a low brow society we live in today.
This bears repeating!
I am sick of watching golf when the announcers gush 95% of the time about Tiger, especially when he's at the top of the leader board. It's sickening! I don't give a rat's ass about narcisstic spoiled baby, Tiger. He's black (well sort of, but it's enough for the fawning liberal media), he's liberal, he's pro-0dumb0, and he's got himself another white blonde celebrity bimbo, Lindsey Vonn. Good luck with that, Lindsey!
I wish Tiger would have lost....that way the announcers are forced to grudgingly cover the winnner, while jumping back multiple times to cover Tiger, desperately shilling for Tiger to leap to the front of whatever tourney is being played.
I have long been sick of the attention Tiger gets to the exclusion of everyone else.
I always say, "Drop it anywhere you want to." And often I'll add something like, "Why don't you drop it over here, so you'll have a shot" ... because to my duffer way of thinking, it's ridiculous to take a drop behind a tree.
That’s exactly how hubby and I feel about Tiger Woods. The fawning commentary has made us hate him.
Sergio Garcia really messed up today, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crash and burn like that before.
“I am sick of watching golf when the announcers gush 95% of the time about Tiger, especially when he’s at the top of the leader board. It’s sickening!”
It is NOT sickening. It simply is what it is. Tiger is one of the great closers in any sport. When he gets the lead, he rarely gives it up. And the gushing over Tiger is less than the gushing over Mariano Rivera (closer for the Yankees) in his prime. When Rivera came in the game with a lead, the game was over.
I have a very extensive old ‘SPORT MAGAZINE’, (circa 1946 thru about 1972, when it went to hell and I quit collecting. I have many any SI’s from intro thru about 1995 also), collection and just last night I finished re-reading an account of Jack’s very first pro tournament. Then another SPORT story from 1966 where the know it alls were picking at him for to many biz. things going on and how he was gonna fall on his butt! Jack will always be number one!! I have more than a few old issues featuring Hogan, Snead, Nelson, Venturi, Bolt, Casper, Player and Arnie and those are fun to re-read also. What a time. It will never be like that again. It seems like it all happened only yesterday...
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