Posted on 06/18/2015 11:42:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Maybe there was a time you figured the artist formerly known as Tiger Woods had earned his own demise, that he had this coming to him all along. Maybe you thought he deserved to suffer on the golf course after the scandal, and after he spent his dynastic years wearing that invisible Do Not Disturb sign while keeping you, the sports fan, as far away as possible on the less fortunate side of the ropes.
Maybe you were a blind believer in karma, entrenched enough in the what-goes-around, comes-around crowd to enjoy watching Woods devolve into the worst kind of a muni-course hacker.
But even the most passionate haters can't find satisfaction in this anymore. Like him or not, Tiger Woods stands among the greatest athletes this country has ever produced. Who really wants to see him keep getting humiliated like he was Thursday at Chambers Bay, where the tattered remains of his indomitable aura were pancaked by the freight trains rumbling across the banks of Puget Sound?
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Steroids and no family foundation or God has destroyed this man.
Pray America is waking
When Tiger first arrived on the scene everybody hailed the diversity that a little “color” brought to an otherwise “old white guy’s sport”. Everybody talked about what a great and gracious player he was. The new, less white, face of golf. He won and won and won and won. Just wait, says I, nothing good can come from this and given time the true nature of the beast will emerge. It did. I was right. I’m always right. See you later Tiger...thanks for nothing.
BS. Professional, tournament golf requires strength, stamina, and skill. You walk 4-5 miles during a professional round, often up and down very hilly courses (like the current U.S. Open). Both before and after your round, you go to the range to hit balls and work on your swing. A good repeatable swing requires balance, timing and strength, the same qualities a good baseball player possesses. A ball hit into deep rough requires extra strength to extract and put back into play.
Those who think that golfers are not athletes know nothing about the rigors of tournament play. Your weekend golfer, smoking a cigar and swilling beer may not be athletic, but neither is the overweight, middle-aged softball player. And both compare to the professional in the same manner -- they don't.
Just another over-hyped "athlete", that gleefully and gladly took the sponsor money, lived the high life and now has fallen on his face.
Just take the money and run, ya bum.
You can't even hit a little white ball around a cow pasture anymore, so you spend your time time stepping in the patties.
Big hairy stinking deal.
“Maybe you were a blind believer in karma,”
People almost never used the “karma” word correctly. I has nothing to do with paybacks during a person’s current life. It refers to how a person’s life will be after reincarnation — in the next life.
“Golfers aren’t “athletes”.Golfing requires skill but so does chess.”
Try walking Southern Hills in Tulsa in June for 4 rounds while playing the Open and see if you still think that statement is true.
Look at all the famous athletes of the last 20 years . . . Jordan, Gretzky, Lemieux, Elway, Marino, etc. All of them would love to be the ‘non-athlete’ Woods is/was. Because they are all golf fanatics when not playing their own sport.
Golf is the single most difficult sport to master because of the small margin of error in so many parts of the game. The difference between winning tournaments and losing your Tour privileges is about one stroke per round over the whole year.
Your comment is absurd.
My Aunt was wearing one of those skirts.
He showed how petty he was in the Fuzzy Zoeller incident, and he never changed. The media gave him a pass for years because of their bias.
“He showed how petty he was in the Fuzzy Zoeller incident, and he never changed. The media gave him a pass for years because of their bias.”
I met Fuzzy Zoeller earlier this year . . . I am on Tiger’s side on that one. Ridiculously tasteless comment by Fuzzy and it didn’t deserve to be glossed over. And after spending a couple of minutes with Zoeller he hasn’t learned anything since.
You walk 4-5 miles during a professional round, often up and down very hilly courses (like the current U.S. Open).
I'm old enough to remember dial telephones 25-cent-a-gallon gas and The Honeymooners.However thanks to doctors' orders I walk...at a fast pace...at least 4 miles a day on a route which includes several big hills.As a result my weight is down,my blood pressure is down and my diabetes is under much better control.
Yes,golf may well require some upper arm strength.It seems highly likely that it requires a knowledge of physics and geometry.
Center fielders are athletes.Wide receivers are athletes.Those competing in he 1,000 meter dash in he Olympics are athletes.
I can easily walk 4 miles despite my age and my artificial hip.Bu I'm no "athlete".
And I can't sink a 30 yard putt despite the fact that I have more than enough upper arm strength to get the ball to the vicinity of the hole.
The point is;little...and not so little...kids say and do some pretty cruel things.So *that* claim just might be true,despite the teacher's denial.It must be acknowledged that she would have a major reason to lie if his claim *was* true.
And BTW...I've never been a fan of his.
He’s making Barry Bonds look like a saint - and at least Bonds continued to play at a high level for a few years after he gave up the, ahem, artificial stimulants.
Brandt Snedeker wore a device in practice to see how much walking he would have to do this week and the result was nearly TEN MILES per day on this course due to the length, terrain and how the layout is. The days of Craig Stadler and John Daly being competitive are over. All of these guys work out with fitness training routines.
"Women weaken legs."
I'd never thought about it that way, just starting to learn about how guys get to the tour, and it's got to be mentally grueling. The number who aren't "on the bubble" is incredibly small.
And yes, they've got to be fit, because even a little fatigue has got to kill the finesse and control needed for many shots.
I do care about sportsmen on steroids. Sportsmen are “examples” for the younger generations who are the future of our country. I would rather see a great Jack Nicklaus a thousand to one over a totally unacceptable Tiger Woods.
And I played a decent game of golf a few years back so i know the game.
I wish I’d never thought of that stupid song, now it’s stuck in my mind.
Exactly. A player using steroids, basically forces all the others to take steroids just to be able to compete.
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