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You and a couple of other folks on here should stick to the great political posts, what you know about golf would fit on a tee. Not one of you mentioned that Phil is number two and came back on the last day to challenge for the win at the open. Nor have you mentioned Sergio Garcia who is doing a very nice job of bringing people out to the course. Finally there are tournaments like Phoenix (100,000 per day) Dallas (60,000 per day) that have done fine with and without Tiger. The TV follows the people who are scoring well. If Daly was doing well you would see him! Gold is an equal opportunity game. Big guys, little guys, old men and lots of women, the game is set up to reward excellance.

[wallcrawlr]

Take it easy on the attacks. Whats your handicap? 9 here.

Are you saying the ol' guys dont know what they are talking about then when they say that no one is competing with Tiger?
Are you saying they know about as much as fits on a Tee.

[Wright is right!]

Another country heard from, I see:

"You and a couple of other folks on here should stick to the great political posts, what you know about golf would fit on a tee."

I've been following the sport - and how media handles it longer then you've, likely, been on the face of the earth.

"Not one of you mentioned that Phil is number two and came back on the last day to challenge for the win at the open."

Obliquely. Phil does hold the #2 ranking, because he does well on the money list and he generally acquits himself in a respectable manner. However, the fact that he mounted a FAILED come-from-behind challenge is precisely the point. That's Mickelson's M.O. He's great all over the course, except on Sundays. He always comes up short. At least when he won Low Amateur at Augusta, he didn't do a "Nick FOLD-o."

"Nor have you mentioned Sergio Garcia who is doing a very nice job of bringing people out to the course."

Sergio plays mainly in Europe, so fans here don't get a chance to see him as much - especially since he's young. And I like him. He's got great potential. But he's going to have to clean up the waggling. That doesn't look very professional. He HAD been doing better at it before his relapse at the Open.

"Finally there are tournaments like Phoenix (100,000 per day) Dallas (60,000 per day) that have done fine with and without Tiger. The TV follows the people who are scoring well. If Daly was doing well you would see him!"

I never said anything to the contrary. Tiger plays a schedule that he has devised for his best exposure and best professional development. He can afford to not show up every week. That doesn't mean that no one's interested in the Byron Nelson, because they ARE. And you're certainly right in that TV will give the best coverage to whomever's winning.

"Gold is an equal opportunity game."

Yup. He who has the gold gets the most equal opportunities. GOLF is a lot like that, too. Perhaps you'd like to share with us a few excerpts from your latest dissertation on the differences in greens design between, say a Nicklaus course and an old Jones layout.

Michael