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I also found professional golf all of a sudden very interesting. Unlike other pro sports, these guys are not gangsters, slackers, something more honest about the game.

I am a PGA geek! The PGA is one of the last meritocracies in sports: no long term contracts. It's perform or you're out. Look at Steve Stricker: off the Tour three years ago and scrambling for sponsor's exemptions. Look at Robert Gamez: out of the Top 125 last year and now doing the same as Stricker in the past. It's tough. Then there are players whose game leaves them like Duval. Or Baker Finch..... The Tigers and Mickelsons are the exception, most of the rest of the working pros have to grind it out week-to-week.

And I understand about the range - I too have spent a heckuva lot of time there this year.

59 posted on 01/24/2008 6:11:54 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

Yep! I guess that’s why I find golf the great game that it is! I play very little, if at all, but find the game just as enjoyable!
Other than Tiger, the return of Steve Stricker has to be the big talk of the last year. From the top, to the lows and now 4 in the world so quickly? A major maybe, and the Ryder Cup?
As for Duval. Maybe if he moves to the right, his game might get better.


62 posted on 01/24/2008 12:16:47 PM PST by cleveland gop (In these times we must hold to OUR CONSERVATIVE VALUES. Anythlng else just won't do.)
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BREAKING NEWS!!
Tiger -5 through 13. Sabbatini also -5.
I guess Jim Brown thinks that Tiger should have been more proactive in response to the “lynch” comment. Like I said before when he is done with his round, go up to the tower, push Nick Faldo out of the way and put an end to this so that those that wrongly want her fired can shut up!


63 posted on 01/24/2008 1:32:36 PM PST by cleveland gop (In these times we must hold to OUR CONSERVATIVE VALUES. Anythlng else just won't do.)
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You make some super points. There is no team to carry you, or fail you. Stricker decided to show up, and John Daly on the other hand is a slow motion wreck... Daly drops out of half the tourneys he enters all of a sudden...


65 posted on 01/24/2008 8:01:20 PM PST by Professional
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