LOL! I was laughing for five minutes reading that. Hilarious. The jerk saying the pros would hit it another 50 yards. Priceless - what an idiot. The tool talking about pros “hitting a 2 iron.” Priceless. Some still do but most would use a hybrid or fairway wood.
The Freddy this is a little too creepy. He problem goes around picking up chicks saying he is Freddy. Way way too bizarre.
6 birdies in a row at Bethpage is pretty staggering. I remember Michael Jordan bragging about how he could break 80 at Bethpage. the golf guys say he is not that good and he goes around trying to get games with betting on and often does not payoff.
Thanks. Great story and a great great round. The one guy here saying Tiger is “natural” says he shoots in the 80s and has been to the AT&T near DC and knows golf. No way Tigre is a natural.
If you get a chance sometime - on YouTube there is a funny video where Jamie Sadlowski (Canadian kid) who won the long drive champ and hits it over 400 yards is doing a demo at a tourney this year. Some PGA guys are there like Charlie Wie (I think) watching and they are like little kids. It is really funny.
Jamie has a fairly normal swing for a long driver and is not that big. He is also a scratch golfer and young enough so he could maybe get on the Nationwide.
It wasn’t 6 birdies in a row, it was 4 in a row and 6 total for the round, with all the hacking I was doing in the beginning I shot 76.
The term “natural” and “prodigy” is wildly misused. A natural would be someone who didn’t pick up a club until later in life and then explodes on to the scene.
Tiger was swinging a club from the time he could stand, that’s a huge, huge advantage. Same with Wayne Gretzky, his father had a rink in the back yard I saw video of him as a little kid doing some pretty amazing stuff, just like Tiger. Mickey Mantle’s father had him switch hitting as a little kid. If these guys started playing their respective sports as teenagers they wouldn’t be who they are and were. A lot of tour guys have fathers who were pros or teachers and/or access to the game at an early age.
Tiger was great before the PED’s, so was Bonds. They both took it to another level after they started cheating. Let’s see if they start digging now that the bloom is off the rose with Mr. Wonderful. Did you see what Mushnick wrote about Tiger?
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/tiger_good_guy_image_manufactured_SYCnhDVhWlOfCLBTqSPl2I