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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Children, children, children....
On the serious side... back when Jack Nicklaus was very young around 1960 and playing against Arnold, Jack was starting to win everything. But, even when Jack got married and began having kids, if you look back Jack had a couple of years there where he had a "little lull" so to speak after his marriage. But, of course, he made an excellent comeback and went on to do so many great things!
;-)
This thread was begun to speak graciously of Tiger Woods' excellent accomplishment over the years.
This poster (pp) has tried to create some kind of delusion here of "chess as a sport".
No one, I mean NO ONE on this thread wishes to worry about his ongoing and relentless obsession that "chess is a sport".
Could you please ask him to blow off his need to tell all the world here at FR that chess is a physical experience and a sport. No one wants to hear it, and if they did, this would not be the thread to hear it.
Let pp begin his own thread where he can try to convince FReepers that chess is a sport. If chess is a sport....... Hillary is a true conservative. ;-)
Thank you! Respectfully.......... bts
well my dad won't shut up about the DiMaggio streak and I was at games 2130 and 2131 for Ripken :)
Tiger might just do it too....we will see....
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