Posted on 05/14/2005 6:12:23 AM PDT by beyond the sea
IRVING, Texas - The moment was packed with the kind of tension usually seen only at a major. In the locker room at the Byron Nelson Championship, players huddled around the television as Tiger Woods stood over a 15-foot putt. Upstairs in the family dining area, about 60 people set down their silverware and stopped their chatter to watch. On the course, the 1,500 fans surrounding the 18th green went stone silent.
They witnessed something that had not happened on the PGA Tour in seven years and 142 tournaments.
Woods missed the cut.
"Every guy in the locker room was watching," Jesper Parnevik said. "We're not allowed to bet, but guys were offering $1,000 he would make it."
No wonder there were no takers.
Woods made a slippery 6-foot birdie putt at Torrey Pines three years ago to make the cut on the number. He made a downhill par putt from 4 feet in the Masters two years ago to do the same thing. And who can forget that 6-foot putt in the 2000 PGA Championship to force a playoff, or that 15-footer in the dark at the Presidents Cup.
Maybe that's what was so surprising about this one.
He studied the line from both sides, consulted his caddie, then stood over the ball and went through his routine. One look at the cup. Shift his feet and give it another look. A third look and pull the trigger.
The ball broke gently to the right toward the cup, then flattened out in the final 6 inches and trickled by, a dramatic end to one of the greatest streaks in sports.
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ROFL...... I'm laughing and I played the game for 30 years!
LOL!
There are drugs all over the PGA Tour, but they aren't steroids. Not sure where you came up with that one.
Players are taking Crestor and Zoloft left and right because it whacks you out and keeps you from getting too wound up. Vijay immediately comes to mind.
;-)
thank you....
he is grasping at straws....look at the stupid pictures he tried to pass off as PROOF of Tiger Woods' taking steroids...
no time/dates on them, nothing. Just pictures he pulled off of the internet, that are not even in the same or similar angles...
it was hilarious when I first pulled up that post. I had to walk away for a second I was laughing so hard....
LOL!!!
Where is lefty so that he can spike Vijay!!!?????
You take ignorance to a very high level. Congrats.
I think hitting a baseball is the hardset thing to do in sports. Hit a round object, with a round implement, and hit it squarely, and it is thrown at you at ninety miles an hour from sixty feet away, and with movement on it (curve, forkball, knuckler, split-finger). The batter has milliseconds to decide ball / strike / fastball / curveball / scroogie and swing or not.
Huh? And just how do you suppose they'll do that?
and yea, the Tiger shure looks like he's juiced up on steroids......... (not!)
Lucky you!!!!
LOL. Correction: ........... at someone else's stupidity.
;-)
LOL!
go be an idiot on another thread....your fixation on steroids and the fact that you are a Vijay Singh fan just proves that you have nothing to add to this converstation....
Get Lost....
I don't think I've read three posts about the record. This started out as a post hijacked by the "golf is not a sport crowd". Now you say I've hijacked it by pointing out that your untouchable could be on the juice.
He also has more off course commitments than the rest of the players combined.
I played high school football, basketball and baseball. I really liked them all. But I started playing golf many years ago at the age of 22. Sport? I dunno. All I know is that it is the best GAME ever invented.
Where'd you get that, genius?
Seriously, I think you may be gay for Tiger and you're somehow steroid obsessed because he married the sweet and delightful Swede. Get over it. Janet Reno is still available for you.
Rooting for Woods is like rooting for the Cowboys or the Yankees. Give me a break.
Any port in a storm
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