Emotional Tiger Woods Wins 11th Major

Yahoo! News (AP) ^ | 7/23/2006 | Doug Ferguson

[Pyro7480]

Tiger Woods of the United States, right, embraces his caddie Steve Williams after winning the British Open Golf Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Course in Hoylake, England Sunday July 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

[GOP Poet]

Tiger was amazing today. It is such a gift to be able to watch this man play golf.

[JRios1968]

Tiger IS human!

[zot]

Bump to the top.

[dr_who_2]

Tiger seems like an awfully nice chap, and on the face of it this seems all very touching... but it's just a game, regardless of whether you're an amateur or a pro who can retire with all the income he made with product endorsements. If you feel this bad about a golf game while your father is dying and after he's dead and buried, you have to wonder A) why didn't you skip the golf tournaments to spend more time with your dad, even against his dad's wishes, and B) does the fellow has some emotional scars that his pop laid on him? Maybe Tiger's more obsessive about golf than anyone else on Earth, but I still find it hard to understand how a few mulligans could bring about a nervous breakdown with anybody. Otherwise, I'm glad I don't know much of anything about golf and pity the poor twits who think of it as a good form of leisure time relaxation.

[USMMA_83]

Of course it's a game. Everything is a game. Climbing the corporate ladder, being first in the spelling bee, being class valedictorian, getting a scholarship to Harvard, marrying the woman of your dreams, etc. It's all a game. But, we still cry...when we look back at the events that seemed inconsequential...but infact shaped you to win or lose. It's all Maya my friend...but we still cry...

[microgood]

Very few people are blessed with a father like Earle Woods. I cannot even imagine the pain Tiger feels with that loss but he gave him a fitting tribute today. Tiger is the man. God bless him and his family.

FYI, Tiger earned a 48 on 9 holes at the age of three and appeared in the Golf Digest at the age of 5. Earle Woods dedicated his life to Tiger and now the world benefits from his hard work.

[dr_who_2]

Tiger should take a year off to live as a hermit in the Himalayas, meditate, sleep, and carve napkin rings. Only then can he hope to be the patron saint of golf players.

[Texasforever]

Yep. When it comes right down to it most people that really excel at anything are doing it to make someone else proud of them. There are exceptions but very few.

[Texasforever]

Man you really have a thing for him don't you?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Another asterisk on a major as Tiger looks more and more like Barry Bonds everyday.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Hahahaha! That's pretty good!

I used to play golf a lot. I quit, just today, when I finally realized that hitting the ball well once cannot make up for hitting it badly over and over.

Hitting a golf ball well is very satisfying, but not satisfying enough to make up for all my bad shots.

I like watching Tiger.

[Pistolshot]

Tiger seems like an awfully nice chap, and on the face of it this seems all very touching... but it's just a game, regardless of whether you're an amateur or a pro who can retire with all the income he made with product endorsements. If you feel this bad about a golf game while your father is dying and after he's dead and buried, you have to wonder A) why didn't you skip the golf tournaments to spend more time with your dad, even against his dad's wishes, and B) does the fellow has some emotional scars that his pop laid on him? Maybe Tiger's more obsessive about golf than anyone else on Earth, but I still find it hard to understand how a few mulligans could bring about a nervous breakdown with anybody. Otherwise, I'm glad I don't know much of anything about golf and pity the poor twits who think of it as a good form of leisure time relaxation.

Fortunately for the rest of us we don't have to share your ignorant view of losing a loved one, teacher, and best friend. Which all of these things Tiger's father was to him. It's not the game he was crying about, it's the fact his guide in life is missing from that moment and all too quickly.

[CALawyer]

Another asterisk on a major as Tiger looks more and more like Barry Bonds everyday.

6'1" and 175 lbs? Hardly. Tiger works as hard or harder than any other golfer out there. Mentally, he is unequaled, like Nicklaus was in his era. He also arguably has the best short game today.

[dr_who_2]

Tell that to Archie Bunker on Steroids.

[Pistolshot]

What proof do you have of this?
None?
Please don't equate talent built from a young age such as Tiger's with a 'skill' that was injected into Bonds every week.
I suspect any athlete who has skill over and above yours or the rest of us HAS to be cheating in some form or fashion in your view. A little jealousy perhaps?

[maine-iac7]

I'm glad I don't know much of anything about golf and pity the poor twits who think of it as a good form of leisure time relaxation.

geeze dr_wHo_2 - you need a chill pill. A big one.

Nice of to trash Tiger too - you must be a dr of psychiatry? - they do like to tear everything apart in tiny pieces - leaving nothing but a pile of rubble. Make you feel bigger?

Anyway, It appears you're half right: You "don't know much of anything..."

[maine-iac7]

Tiger should take a year off to live as a hermit in the Himalayas, meditate, sleep, and carve napkin rings. Only then can he hope to be the patron saint of golf players.

Your second Tiger-rant. You sound like you have some very serious issues.

I suspicion those around you wish YOU'D hie off to the Himalayas.

Do you always wax pompously? ("to speak about something in a knowing and self-important way, especially when not qualified to do so")

That's not really a question - just an observation...

[nathanbedford]

I don't know much of anything about golf

That confession was utterly superfluous after you had exposed as to this assertion:

I still find it hard to understand how a few mulligans could bring about a nervous breakdown with anybody

Not even Clinton gets mulligens in The Open.

The release of emotion is entirely human under the circumstances. The game is diabolically disigned to test the character more than the physical ability of the contestants, especially at these levels.

Tiger Woods, like Nicklaus, demonstrates at every opportunity, both on and off the links, that he is a human of admirable character. Without possesing that character, which he believes is a legacy from his father, he could not suceed at the game. Without the game, he would not have tempered his character.

[maine-iac7]

Tiger looks more and more like Barry Bonds everyday.

hmm - think dad had him on steroids at age 3?

Tiger had been playing since he was a tot. And he shows no signs of 'bulking up" He's just plain great.- you are pitiful

get a life - jealousy is corrosive