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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baseball is a sport, ask any shortstop or Catcher :)
Barrett Robins, a center for the Raiders did it a couple times I believe, but no one found out about it until he went AWOL right before the Super Bowl...
Aren't those great!
You gotta love the ongoing relationship between the flyers and the fixers.
;-)
Dasher
"Why do you always here (hear) the phrase "the game of chess" ........ not "the sport of chess"?
Why of course it's a game. As is football and baseball. What is the point of your question?
Because in post # 249 you implored: "Chess IS a sport". If you can't remember the things that you were arguing don't bother to reply.
Let me remind you, these are definitions of a sport.
1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
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Football and baseball (as you mention) are games and sports. Because there is NO REAL PHYSICAL EXERTION in chess as the competitors sit and think, chess is only a game (a great game) and NOT a sport. It's strange that you cannot admit that. But some people just cannot debate an issue and then admit they are mistaken when they are proven wrong.
I really don't have an opinion as to whether golf should be considered a sport or not (I've never so much as picked up a golf club). But I once heard a sports commentator say that in his opinion, a sport is any athletic competition between players or teams, in which a player or team has to react immediately to and defend immediately against what another player or team is doing.
I must say that I never heard that one before, but it is interesting that you post it. I don't know what the writer means by "react immediately". But if he means something like "react directly" then that certainly does happen in golf all the time, especially in match play (not metal play - stroke play). Playing certain shots, taking riskier chances or playing it safe, those are all directed by the opponent's play.
Anyhow, here's hoping you get out on the course some time.
;-)
Imagine how intelligent you would have been if you had had more oxygen at your birth.
You are FOOLISH if you think that chess is a sport and that it includes physical exertion. God bless you. It must cause you physical exertion to rise out of your bed in the morning.
You are less than someone whom I would ever wish to communicate. I feel sorry for those in your life............... you apparently are a man with a great deal of attitude and much less of anything else........... including rationality.
Please never post to me again. There are dozens of people on this thread who privately have told me that they think that you are a fool thinking that chess is a sport. I won't go that far. I say....... only that you act as the fool.
Chess is a sport............. exert yourself, proudpapa....play a game of chess.....that just may be your greatest exertion of the day.
LOL!
You've never swung a club befroe have you.
The most amazing, incredible athelete in the last 70 years took up golf and he sucks at it. His name is Michael Jordan.
Yeah, we counted up somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 tourneys where there was not cut that he played in during the streak.
You're about as smart as ARchie Bunker too.
" Tiger, a naturally thin athletic man who bulks up substantially mid year, is one one guy I'm almost sure of. Dan Patrick was alluding to it on his ESPN radio show in 2003. He got wind from people who worked out with him in Florida. What people don't understand is that the roids actually help him with his short game & rough play....not his driving.
1. Tiger IS STILL very thin. I stood right next to him at Disney and at Bay HIll recently. He is a wispy little guy.
2. Dan Patrick is a hack (see Dan Rather)
3. Tiger has been an excellent short game player his entire career.
Why don't you just admit you are a bigot thats pissed off that a black man has taken over your white man sport?
Hey Mike!
YOu rightly put the DiMaggio and Ripken streaks ahead of this one. The hitting streak for sure will never be broken.
I think Tiger himself will break his cut streak.
Tennis snob eh?
In your pretty little white shorts? Do you tie your sweater around your neck afterward?
40-love, balls to the butler!
Tiger's game has been off since he got married. Take one look at his bride, and I don't blame him at all for his mind being off his golf game! ;-)
There are people on this thread who are simply racists. They won't admit it, but they are. Sad.
Skiing isn't a sport?
I didn't even think of that.
You are probably right.
Haaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaha! Oh man, that was good.
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