I think it depends on how the Rider Cup works. For example, if it is an award for entire career than perhaps he should be chosen. If it is just for 2010, then why not wait until he has a good year. Why was he not picked last year? Arnold Palmer should be chosen this year if it is for entire career.
Former? He's the current #1 rated player in the world, and had two top-4 finishes in majors (the Masters and U.S. Open) this year. ...his worst year ever.
No, he was the typical choice. They’re always sticking him on the Ryder team, and he always stinks at the Ryder, but he’s Tiger Woods, so they hope that this time he won’t stink.
Since your start date, January 19, 2009, you’ve had exactly 9 posts on this forum. Eight of them were new threads in which you never posted responses to subsequent posts.
I call TROLL on you, trying to do a little race baiting in the meantime with this post.
Do you play golf as well as Tiger? Do you know the reasoning behind player selections for the Ryder Cup? If not, I’d say your “opinion” isn’t worth the keyboard it was typed on.
I’m not a Tiger fan (Used to be until his personal life fiasco...), but I think your little foray into his skin color is a bait.
the tv bunch probably put some (thumb rubbing against index and middle finger) in Pavin’s pocket...
Who cares what color he is? Why would you even bother with this nonsense?
This isn’t an honorary spot, it is the Captain’s Choice.
You are a moron.
He is still the Number One player in the world rankings, and has never lost a singles match in Ryder Cup play.
Tiger Woods is the choice for a number of reasons:
1. Ratings, the networks likely demanded the captain pick him.
2. He has the highest upside. Thus a risk averse captain would rather pick Woods in case you lose. If you lose without Woods, you get crticism for leaving him off. If you lose with Woods, you only get criticism if he plays very poorly.
3. Woods is very good at match play. He has not played that well in stroke play tourneys recently. But he may play very well when a bad swing costs him a hole not several strokes.
So I think Woods as a captian’s pick was a no brainer for any risk averse captain. Now maybe point 1 is in part due to his mixed race, but I think in similar situations Nicholas or Palmer would have been taken.
How would you like to be the captain that left Nicholas off, lost the cup and then had him a few years later become the oldest winner to that time of the Masters? You know you that would raise the controversy yet again. Well Woods certainly could and probably will win a major later, making leaving him off very high risk for the captain.
Tiger has rejuvenated his game lately, maybe you don’t follow him but he is the most dominant player on average although he had an awful first few months back.
Ya think?
Tiger on the Ryder Cup team is all about television and money. Despite Tiger’s troubles and his poor play of late, he still drives ratings up when he is a tournament.
The only problem I have with his placement is when he had the awful tourney, he said he shouldnt be selected the way he was playing on Monday. That Wednesday he accepted. He hadnt played a tourney in between, so how did he improve enough in 2 days to be worthy?
Tiger’s father left him some sage advice before his death; Tiger, he said, keep your eye on your game, screw everything else.
I guess you are the racist. Don’t post trash like this again.
Apparently, you’re going to continue posting a thread and then refuse to respond to subsequent replies to you. After all, that’s common troll methodology. But it only works for a short while, them WAM!
You can run, but you can no longer hide...
That's kind of disrespectful towards his mother...
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>>Was he the first African-American golfer<<
Tiger Wood’s Ethnicity One-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.
Now, why would they choose to call him Africa-American?
TV ratings.
Next.